Over 250 jobs are under threat at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff as a result of the Covid crisis. As performances have been cancelled there could be a jobs melt-down in the whole theatre and arts sector unless the government steps in. Under pressure, the UK government announced a £1.5 billion subsidy but that has not been used to ...

Statement by the International Secretariat of the Committee for a Workers’ International The words of W.B Yeats, from his poem ‘Easter 1916’, sum up the current world situation: “All changed, changed utterly.” 2020 is the opening of a new era, as we have explained in the previous CWI analysis. Fundamental changes are taking place in the world economy, geo-political relations, ...

Transport For Wales (TFW) has stepped back from industrial action planned by the RMT rail union and agreed to talks that would bring “in-house” all train cleaners currently working for outsourced company Axis. Cleaners had voted to strike on July 2nd but suspended their action when TFW agreed to convene a working group with the RMT to discuss bringing all ...

By Iby Yassin The global Black Lives Matter movement has empowered many BAME people to speak up about the struggles they face, and to seek equality in a system that disadvantages us. One of the most basic outcomes of equality is representation – to see yourself and those that share your skin colour and culture in all aspects of public ...

No return to school until its safe

Council workers refute Welsh government claims that test and track is ready

By Jai Chavis and Nicholas Wurst, Independent Socialist Group (US) On 25 May, police in Minneapolis choked George Floyd, an unarmed black man, who subsequently died. His death was disturbingly reminiscent of the NYPD killing of Eric Garner in 2014. A released video recorded by bystanders shows Floyd repeatedly pleading, “I can’t breathe”,  as officer Derek Chauvin crushes his neck ...

One rule for Cummings, another for us - More Tory lies over PPE and testing

Taken from the latest issue of Socialism Today Despite the heroic efforts of healthworkers the NHS has been ill-prepared to cope with the coronavirus pandemic. But the roots of this lie in years of neo-liberal policies, including the marketisation drive in England of the New Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, argues JON DALE. Ten years of ConDem ...

Nationalise production to guarantee supplies of PPE By Beth Webster, ICU nurse at University Hospital Wales, Cardiff Health workers don’t want medals, and care workers don’t want badges. We want the equipment we need to be safe while we do our jobs, and we want a decent pay rise that means worrying about paying the bills isn’t distracting us from ...