News and Analysis

By Alec Thraves Swansea Socialist Party Once again, just before Xmas, the jobs of thousands of Tata UK steelworkers are threatened by the announcement that Tata Steel intends to make its UK business “self-sustaining” whilst at the same time off-loading its Netherlands based operations, making the UK, with approximately 8000 workers, its sole European steel operation. Around 4,000 of those ...

By Robert Bechert, Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) In the US, and around the world, millions greeted Trump’s defeat in the US elections. His probable removal from office, notwithstanding his legal claims, will be widely welcomed. Clearly, there will be changes within the US and international repercussions – although many of the US foreign policy changes will be in ...

By a local government member of Unison Cymru Councils facing a cliff edge It was two years ago that Northamptonshire Tory Council invoked a Section 114 notice- under this measure they were indicating they could only afford to spend money on  essential services – in other words they had run out of money and were in effect declaring themselves bankrupt. ...

Socialist Party Wales issued the following statement:“The suspension of Jeremy Corbyn is an indication of the sharp move to the right of the Labour Party under Starmer which means that thousands of people who joined Welsh Labour in the hope that it would provide a vehicle for working people to win reforms in their interests have been disenfranchised.“Socialist Party Wales ...

By Dave Reid The Wales and Border rail franchise will effectively be nationalised in February as franchise holding company Keolis Amey (KA) walks away from its contract. The collapse of ticket sales in the Covid crisis has led to huge losses for the conglomerate and so the company will hand over the train operating services to publicly-owned Transport For Wales. ...

By Ross Saunders The Welsh government is imposing a national “firebreak” lockdown from Friday, as the second wave of the corona virus washes over the country. From Friday 23rd October to Monday 9th November everyone will be asked to stay at home and many workplaces in leisure, retail and hospitality will shut. Children in years 9 and above will also ...

By Michelle Francis, Bangor Socialist Students The Vice Chancellor of Bangor University has decided that his currently unused property is more important than the livelihoods of the people who work for him, but also more important than the lives of the students who pay him. 120 of these jobs are support staff and 80 are academic staff. Now is not ...

By Hannah Sell, Socialist Party General Secretary A decade ago, following the worldwide financial crash, a Financial Times editorial congratulated capitalism on a bit of luck that “the left” was “missing in action in what should have been its finest hour. In the deepest global downturn since the second world war, no blueprint for a fundamentally different method of organising ...

By Cammilla Mngaza Siyanda Mngaza is currently serving a four-and-a-half-year prison sentence for defending herself against a racially motivated hate crime. Siyanda worked for the South Wales Fire Service in human resources – recruiting fire fighters. She had never been in trouble before. In May 2019, at a campsite in Brecon she was attacked, without provocation, by a family group ...

By Elin Wilding, Cardiff West Socialist Party Students in lockdown Cardiff protested on Sunday 4 October to demand the refunding of student fees for this year, and the abolition of tuition fees entirely. Around 70 students attended in spite of the Welsh weather. The mood was angry and has been for the last week. The demonstration was called by a ...