By Mariam Kamish As Labour leader of Caerphilly Council, Sean Morgan cut 600 jobs last September. Meals on Wheels and Blackwood Miners Institute only escaped Labour’s axe after massive protests organised by trade union Unison. Under his leadership, the council did manage to close the very popular Llancaiach Fawr manor house – an act of historic vandalism. And then they ...

By Elaine Brunskill Take the wealth off the 1% Elaine Brunskill, Socialist Party National Committee If you save every single penny you earn for the next 52 years you could become one of the richest 10% in the UK. Mind, to do this you would need to be an average wage earner on £37,430 a year. Oh! Also, living rent ...

By Mark Evans, President of Swansea Trades Council, and Swansea Socialist Party About 40 enthusiastic and determined members of Unison attended a 6.30am protest outside Morriston Hospital in Swansea, on a dark and damp 8 October. Socialist Party and Swansea Trades Council members attended, offering solidarity and support, and were welcomed. The protest was organised by Swansea Bay Healthcare Unison in ...

Dave Walsh, Liverpool Socialist Party member, is chair of Liverpool and District Trades Union Council. As a teenager in the 1980s, he was one of hundreds of young people employed as an apprentice by Liverpool’s Militant-led Labour council which defied the cuts and beat back Thatcher’s Tories. For many years, the Socialist Party has put the demand for a new ...

Editorial of the Socialist 1336 The ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march in London on 13 September sounds a warning that the workers’ movement must urgently respond to. Police estimate that 110,000 took to the streets in the largest-ever demonstration called by far-right racist Tommy Robinson. Those that attended,  who went far beyond the still small numbers in the organised far right, ...

By Dave Reid Unite the Union members at Cardiff Bus will be striking for three weeks from 17 August against low pay and poor working conditions. Despite providing a service throughout the Covid lockdown and being praised as frontline workers, Cardiff Bus workers, including drivers, have lost pay in real terms ever since and are paid less than the average ...

Editorial of the Socialist issue 1331 On 21 July over one thousand trade unionists – on Zoom and via a live feed – met to discuss the fight for a new workers’ party. The meeting arose from a petition for trade unionists – with over 2,000 trade unionists, including 43 current and former members of trade union executive committees signed ...

Victory to the bin workers – support the mega-picket on 25 July and call a national Saturday demonstration in Birmingham Support the suspension from Unite membership of Angela Rayner and the cutting Birmingham Labour councillors Fight for a political voice for workers The emergency motion to support the striking Birmingham bin workers, suspend from Unite membership Deputy Prime Minister Angela ...

By Frankie Coultas Since the recent supreme court ruling on the legal definition of ‘woman’ in the Equality Act, fear among trans people in the workplace and public has ramped up. The Labour government has shown that it cannot be relied on to protect our rights. Under cover of the Cass Review, it is denying trans children access to necessary ...

By Michael Johnson The pace of attacks can feel overwhelming. Donald Trump’s second term began in January with cruel attacks on LGBTQ+ rights in the US on a much bigger scale than in his first term.  Just this month, the US Department of Health and Human Services confirmed that the federal government has proposed to cut all funding for the ...