Tories out! – Corbyn in with anti-austerity and socialist policies Whose side are you on? That was the theme of Jeremy Corbyn’s speech that launched Labour’s election campaign. While the Tories are on the side of the “dodgy landlords” who evict families to make way for luxury apartments, Corbyn has pledged to build 100,000 affordable homes and cap private rents. ...

By Dave Reid On Saturday steelworkers from all over Britain joined hundreds of Orb workers and their families on an impressive march through Newport to demand that the Tata Orb steelworks in the city is saved. Tata has announced the closure of the Orb works and the loss of 380 jobs which has been making steel in Newport for over ...

By Sasha O’Neil – at the protest, 3 October 2019 Unison and GMB banners brightened the rain outside Caerphilly Council Offices on Thursday – and the air rang with chants – as waste management workers and their supporters demanded fair play for themselves and five unfairly sacked workmates. (See video.) The council has been using cameras – installed on waste ...

Join the march to save Sam Davies ward! Saturday 5 October Barry Hospital, Colcott Road 11.00 am By a Cardiff and Vale nurse “That was challenging and uncomfortable”: Cardiff and Vale Health Board chief executive Len Richards’ closing remark at a public engagement meeting over NHS cuts in Barry. After an hour’s presentation from the health board, which one attendee ...

General Election now! For a Jeremy Corbyn-led government with socialist policies Boris Johnson, the Eton-educated millionaire and Trump wannabe, got to number ten with the votes of just ninety thousand members of the Tory Party, less than 0.25% of the electorate. Now he is using his position to over-rule elected MPs. This is one more indication of how big-business politicians ...

On 21 August 1940, Leon Trotsky, the Marxist thinker and fighter, and co-leader of the Russian Revolution (along with Lenin), was murdered by one of Stalin’s agents. The article ‘Trotsky’s Assassination’ originally appeared in the quarterly theoretical magazine of The Militant (now the Socialist Party), in 1980. By Lyn Walsh On 20 August, 1940, Trotsky was struck a fatal blow ...

By Clare Doyle The mass movement in Hong Kong against the local stooges of the Beijing regime appears to be an unstoppable force coming up against an immovable object. Over the past nine weeks, around 600 people have been arrested, over forty of them on charges of riot that can carry a ten year prison sentence. On Saturday (10 August) ...

Joint statement from New Socialist Alternative (Indian section of CWI) and CWI supporters in Pakistan The ruling BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) regime in India has once again displayed its contempt and aversion to basic values of democracy. During the past week this regime had been increasing its armed forces to the tune of 35,000 in the already militarised Kashmir valley, ...

By John Gillman Harrowing scenes are now coming out of Sudan of the 3 June massacre, where doctors report well over 100 people were murdered by the Transitional Military Council (TMC) and general ‘Hemeti’ Dagola’s brutal Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia. With the suspended internet now restored, videos and testament have been shown on mainstream media of mass shootings of ...

By Alex Wedlake, Unite Young Members national committee (personal capacity) Following a series of mass meetings on 12 June, Unite members at the Ford plant in Bridgend decided overwhelmingly to fight the closure of the engine factory. With over 80% of workers voting in favour of action, there is a huge mandate for the union leadership to launch a campaign ...