Welsh News

By Dave Reid Needed—a real political alternative for the working class The Wales Gathering of Your Party on October 25th in Merthyr is a welcome, if limited, start to building a new workers’ and socialist party. The 31,000 people in Wales who indicated in July they wanted to join shows the huge potential for a mass party to challenge the ...

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 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 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 ...

By Dave Warren, Swansea and West Wales Socialist Party The 2025 conference of Socialist Party Wales took place in Cardiff on 1 June. There were lively and optimistic discussions on the political situation worldwide, in Britain and specifically in Wales. We went on to apply our conclusions to the main tasks that face us as a party in the months ...

Gareth Bromhall, Swansea and West Wales Socialist Party Swansea Pride is usually one of the earliest Pride events of the season. It took place this year on 17 May, weeks after the Supreme Court ruling being used to attack trans rights. Socialist Party members involved in Swansea Trades Council led a trade union bloc, while groups of queer, trans and pro-Palestinian ...

Mariam Kamish, Secretary Caerphilly Trades Council Caerphilly Council voted on 14 May to close ten libraries and one of three threatened leisure centres, two to stay open with reduced facilities and shorter hours. Caerphilly Trades Union Council and local campaigners are working to link up the local areas for a fight to save them all. For the second time in ...

By Dave Reid, Socialist Party Wales secretary Eluned Morgan, Labour First Minister of Wales, took the first steps to distance Welsh Labour from the historically unpopular Starmer-led Westminster government, declaring that she would “call out” UK Labour if they undermined Wales. She called for Starmer to halt part of the UK government’s plans to cut disability benefits, rethink cuts to ...

By Jacob Lloyd, Cardiff graduate tutor and UCU member (personal capacity) Cardiff University and College Union (UCU) has resisted 400 cruel job cuts. Now, in a massive U-turn, the uni executive board has ruled out all compulsory redundancies for 2025. This significant short-term victory is the result of hard-fought efforts and the threat of industrial action from union members. In ...