News and Analysis

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 ...

By Judy Beishon On the second anniversary of the 7 October 2023 attack on Israel and the subsequent prolonged genocidal slaughter in Gaza, the fate of Trump’s latest proposals for an end to the war is still in the balance. The US plans to impose a transitional government of technocrats on the Palestinians in Gaza, backed up by outside armed ...

By John Williams (Cardiff Central Socialist Party) Workers at Ofgem, the government energy regulator, members of PCS union, went on their second round of strike action between 29 September and 3 October, fighting for fair pay, job security and better agreements. Pickets on the first day brought some good news! Due to the strike action they took in August, there’s ...

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, ...

Sarah Sachs Eldridge, Socialist Party Executive Committee, responds to questions from socialists in Germany, members of Sol, the German section of the CWI (the socialist international which the Socialist Party is also a member of) 700,000+ have signed up to support the call for a new party announced by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana. What is the background to that development?   Since the ...

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 ...

By Mariam Kamish, Caerphilly Trades Union Council secretary ‘Rebel councillor’ Brenda Miles has joined campaigners marching to save the ten local libraries that Caerphilly Labour council wants to close or offload. Councillor Miles says this would put the council in breach of its statutory duty to provide library services. Our march set off led by local children dressed as story ...

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 ...