By Hannah Sell, Socialist Party General Secretary “One more strike and he’s out”, declared longstanding Tory MP Roger Gale in the wake of the kicking his party got from voters in the Shropshire North by election, previously held by the Tories for almost two centuries. Gale meant that Johnson is in the last chance saloon with the Tory backbenches, but ...

By Nick Chaffey Mass protests across Sudan have continued in response to the latest agreement between Abdalla Hamdok and the military tops. Continuing demands for ‘Power to the People’ show this mass movement is determined to end the rule of the military and is angered at the betrayal of Hamdok in willingly acting for the military. The mass protests across ...

About 100 workers at Panasonic in Cardiff have taken their second day of strike action for a decent pay rise. Panasonic has offered yet another pay freeze. The workers, members of the GMB, are demanding 5%, itself a stand-still pay rise merely keeping up with cost of inflation after years of pay freezes and below-inflation pay rises. Panasonic, which has ...

By New Socialist Alternative (CWI India) On 19 November, India’s PM Narendra Modi announced the repeal of the three farm bills passed last year by his BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) authoritarian government. It is truly a historic victory, specifically of India’s farmers but also of the larger working masses against the BJP regime. These laws were a savage neoliberal attack ...

After 17 days of strike action Stagecoach members of Unite at Cwmbran, Blackwood and Brynmawr depots have voted to accept a deal that wins a £1 an hour rise to £10.50, backdated to April. Attacks on sick pay and rights for new starters were also fought off. Stagecoach had offered a measly £10.10 an hour which would be paid for ...

It was pouring with rain but pickets had been out since 4.00 am this morning at Blackwood, Cwmbran and Brynmawr Stagecoach depots fighting for a decent pay rise. Over 250 bus drivers, members of Unite the Union at the three Stagecoach depots in the Gwent valleys have started 16 days  strike action to fight for a basic pay rise. Bus ...

Postal deliveries in Llanelli ground to a halt on Wednesday 13 October when postal workers at Llanelli Delivery Office walked out to force Royal Mail to re-instate Gary Evans, who has been wrongfully dismissed. Postal workers in the Communication Workers Union (CWU) at Llanelli Delivery Office had voted 98.6% for strike action in defence of Gary. The picket line was ...

Unions Cymru Wales needs a fighting leadership By Socialist Party members in Unison The victory of the left in Unison’s national executive council (NEC) elections in June was a major breakthrough that could transform the largest public sector union in Britain and re-energise the whole working-class movement. Public sector workers have faced the brunt of austerity. Rather than mobilise the ...

Young workers and students took to the streets in Wales to protest for better pay and conditions and against the fees rip off in universities at rallies organised by Youth Fight For Jobs. In Cardiff students marched from the university down to the city centre to join young trade union activists at a rally before marching to the job centre. ...

Trade unions must fight for a new workers’ party Editorial from The Socialist Issue 1249 The person who said New Labour was “intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich” is now intensely happy about the results of this year’s Labour Party conference. Architect of Blairism, Lord Peter Mandelson, is “just thrilled” at this “tremendous win for Keir Starmer”. He said: ...