Another week, another desperate attempt by Theresa May to hold her party together and in power. The possibility of getting rid of this rotten Tory government and the misery it is inflicting on millions is clear. Another week, another desperate attempt by Theresa May to hold her party together and in power. The possibility of getting rid of this rotten ...

Swansea Trades Council has issued a call to arms to lobby Swansea Council to step back from another £24 million cuts to services. It has called a lobby of the council on Thursday 28th February at 2.00 pm. (The council has brought forward its meeting from the normal 5.00 pm start to 3.00 pm in an apparent attempt to deter ...

By Andrew Bromhall, Milford Haven Huge Oil Tankers could have to wait at sea due to a possible strike by the pilots who guide them through the Milford Haven Waterway. At present, the Pilot Teams who are members of Unite the Union and who provide navigational expertise to vessels in the Haven have implemented an overtime ban which is already impacting on the movement of ...

We publish here a translation of a declaration by Izquierda Revolucionaria (IR)the Marxist organisation in Venezuela against both the US-backed coup and the corrupt Maduro government. IR is the sister party of the Socialist Party as an affiliate of the Committee For A Workers International (CWI). Thursday 24 January The situation in Venezuela has reached a critical point during the ...

From the editorial in The Socialist published shortly before May’s historic defeat in the House of Commons May facing Brexit vote catastrophe: Corbyn must put workers’ movement on a war footing! The Tories are at each other’s throats – now let’s get them out! Theresa May’s Brexit deal is finally going to be voted on in parliament, just six weeks before Brexit is meant to ...

Unison has appealed to councillors on Carmarthenshire Council to step back from implementing cuts but instead to campaign for a no-cuts budget. The letter opens with the heading “No Merry Christmas for members whose jobs are under threat – No Happy New Year for the public whose services will be devastated. Set a legal no cuts budget, defend jobs, services ...

Caerphilly borough council agreed at its meeting on Thursday to set aside even more money to settle the employment of its ex-chief executive including £108,000 in wages to the disgraced boss – even as it plans to cut its Meals On Wheels service to some of its most vulnerable residents saving £160,000. A lively protest by anti-cuts campaigners dressed in ...

An investigation by Cardiff Against The Cuts has revealed the damage that austerity cuts is doing to schools in Cardiff. Real-terms cuts carried out by Cardiff Council over the last decade has resulted in fewer teachers in the city’s schools even though the number of children has risen steadily. Cardiff Against The Cuts calculates that the number of children per ...

By Clare Doyle, Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) After three weeks of increasingly angry mass protests, president Emmanuel Macron of France has suspended the massively contested tax on diesel. Whether this will defuse the mass movement calling for his government to resign remains to be seen. On Monday 3 December, when the French prime minister, Edouard Philippe, met opposition ...

By a member of Pembrokeshire Socialist Party After a series of “consultation and engagement” events, Hywel Dda University health board has recently announced its plans to transform the way in which people in Carmarthenshire , Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion will receive healthcare provision in the future and its twenty year “vision” to achieve this and to “repurpose” healthcare in West Wales. ...