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By Ross Saunders Statistics show that austerity has created terrible suffering in our communities. Life expectancy – stalled. Infant mortality – up. Children in poverty – up. Suicide rates – up. And now a new report has confirmed that it has also seriously damaged the economy. The New Economics Foundation has said that cuts by Tory-led governments in the last ...

By Gareth Bromhall Socialist Party members took part in the Swansea Trades Council lobby of the Swansea City Councils budget setting meeting on the 28th February, along side trade unionists from across the city. The council, a labour administration once again waved through tens of millions in cuts to jobs and services in the city, whilst praising themselves for a job well ...

By a Cardiff UCU member Staff at Cardiff University have been informed of plans to cut 380 posts over five years. This announcement comes while branches of the University and College Union (UCU) are balloting nationally over workload, casualisation, the gender pay gap and general levels of pay. UCU members at Cardiff University have responded to the job-cuts announcement by organising a simultaneous ballot ...

Hundreds of school students went on strike and descended in a very lively protest on the Senedd in Cardiff to protest at the inaction of world governments and corporations to prevent climate change. School students struck in schools in Cardiff, the Vale of Glamorgan and Carmarthenshire. The rally was part of a global movement Youth Strike 4 Climate which is ...

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 ...

By Ross Saunders Cardiff Tory Councillor Kathryn Kelloway has sparked outraged by calling on social media for the tents of homeless people in the city to be “torn down”. Kelloway challenged Labour Council Leader Huw Thomas on Twitter to remove the tents for reasons of “safety”, “prosperity” and for “a better image for Cardiff”, sparing not a word for the impact on ...

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 ...