Welsh News

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 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 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 ...

By Alec Thraves 2020 has been a health, social and economic disaster for workers across Wales and is graphically outlined in a Senedd Research document earlier this summer. But more importantly is the living experience and the devastating impact Covid has had on almost every community, workplace and family in Wales, particularly on the poorest and most vulnerable sections of ...

By Dave Warren, Swansea Trades Council and PCS (personal capacity) As we enter the month of October, 15 of the 21 Welsh counties with over 2.3 million people are subject to local COVID restrictions. Already, as of 30 September there have been 24,383 recorded cases and 1,622 deaths even according to the sanitised official figures and this is while the ...

Expensive online courses in ghost towns Going to university right now feels like walking into a trap made of fire, surrounded by circling sharks, as alarms blare off in every direction. Watching the news and seeing the blame go to students for the rise in cases just goes to show how afraid the capitalist class is of young people today. ...

Two million people in lockdown, virtually the whole of South Wales from Llanelli to Newport and two thirds of the Welsh population – the second wave has arrived. The Welsh government has announced strict restrictions on people’s movements, but only as far as their personal lives are concerned. If they are involved in making money for other people then the ...