Welsh News

Where’s Carwyn? By Dave Reid   National Museum of Wales workers from all over Wales, currently on indefinite strike against the management’s imposition of a cut in pay, rallied at the Senedd in Cardiff to demand the Welsh government step in and resolve the dispute. While the politicians milled around the Senedd trying to cobble together a deal to form ...

Welsh Labour holds on, Tories lose, but UKIP gains By Dave Reid On the surface there has not been a huge change in the political complexion of the Welsh government – Welsh Labour lost just one seat and will be able to hold on as a minority government with the opposition split between three parties. But under the surface the ...

How can a buyer be trusted with jobs and communities if they won’t take on workers’ pensions? By Rob Williams, former convenor Swansea Visteon It is becoming increasingly clear from the different bids to take over (or be virtually given) all or part of Tata Steel’s UK operations that none of the potential buyers won’t take on the £15 billion ...

By Alec Thraves According to some commentators, the multinational Tata Group has a reputation of being a paternalistic and caring corporation that takes into consideration the wellbeing of its workforce. Try telling that to the 4,000 steelworkers in Port Talbot and the tens of thousands across the rest of England, Wales and Scotland who either work for Tata Steel or ...

The National Front organised their annual “White Pride” event in Swansea. Barely 25 fascists from all over the UK huddled in the rain outnumbered by the police protecting them from over 300 anti-fascist protesters until they were escorted by a large police contingent and police horses back down their usual back alley before being escorted out of Swansea. One particularly ...

By Ross Saunders South Wales saw just a glimpse of the working-class thirst for a radical alternative to pro-capitalist politicians on Saturday, when over 500 trade unionists and supporters gathered to hear Jeremy Corbyn and other speakers at the Trade Union Pride rally in Cardiff. 1000 more heard him address the Keir Hardie memorial lecture in Aberdare later that day. ...

By Ross Saunders It was like a Viking raid. Over forty people – mostly children and teenagers – stormed into County Hall in Cardiff and occupied the foyer in protest at Cardiff Council plans to cut back funding for their Play Centre. Cardiff’s Labour-run council has twice tried to shut the facility in Grangetown, along with the other six Play ...

“Plaid councillors have a choice of whether to vote for cuts or not” Carmarthenshire County UNISON branch has written to Plaid Cymru councillors to demand they step backs from cuts. The Plaid Cymru group on the council has found £20 million in council reserves. But instead of using the cash to protect services and campaign for their permanent funding from ...

By Dave Reid Aslef and RMT union members at Arriva Trains Wales walked out for 24 hours on 4 January with all its services cancelled, over terms and conditions. Some services on the morning of 5 January were also disrupted, with the strike causing chaos as many returned to work after the Christmas break. The pay demands of the dispute ...

Kate Jones reviews Iphigenia in Splott, written and directed by Gary Owen, Sherman Cymru theatre, Cardiff ‘An angry call for revolt’ Effie is a working class girl in an area of Cardiff hit hard by cuts. No work, no hope, shops boarded up, library and swimming pool closed, streets littered with dog shit. Is there nothing for her but getting ...