Women

By Mia Hollsing (Socialist Party Wales) and other socialist women About 150 women and men turned up to the vigil to express their anger at the death of Sarah Everard on the steps of the Senedd in Cardiff on Saturday despite the police ban on the events and having to walk through the gauntlet of police surrounding the building. There ...

By Heather Rawling Working-class fighters discuss a socialist programme for women Youthful enthusiasm, experience and ideas were in abundance at the Socialist Party England and Wales women’s meeting on 17 January. Over 100 women gave up their Sunday afternoon to discuss the economic, political and social impact of the pandemic. Chris Thomas gave an excellent introduction which laid the basis ...

NHS workers across Wales and the UK were on the march today for a pay rise. There were protests in Cardiff, Swansea, Merthyr and Bridgend. Below Beth Webster a nurse at UHW hospital Cardiff explains the anger at the government’s refusal to increase pay. Cardiff On the march to the Senedd Over 500 angry nurses, NHS staff and supporters gathered ...

By Dani Smith On Wednesday, members of the St Mellons community and Socialist Party Wales members gathered outside the Church of the Resurrection St Mellons to protest the eviction and subsequent closure of Little Fishes Nursery School. The nursery has served the community from the church premises for 30 years and is widely recognised as one of the only affordable ...

Nationalise production to guarantee supplies of PPE By Beth Webster, ICU nurse at University Hospital Wales, Cardiff Health workers don’t want medals, and care workers don’t want badges. We want the equipment we need to be safe while we do our jobs, and we want a decent pay rise that means worrying about paying the bills isn’t distracting us from ...

By Dave Reid Over 1200 health workers in the NHS in Wales have signed a letter (below) appealing to the Welsh government to step in to provide the necessary resources to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic and end the scandalous situation in our hospitals where patients and NHS workers and their families are falling ill to the virus due only to ...

International Women’s Day, with its history of being rooted in struggle, has, in recent years, been diminished – much like the Pride marches for LGBTQ+ rights, have. Big business increasingly uses it as a cynical opportunity to give the illusion of being progressive and inclusive. Sinead Daly looks at the real history of International Working Women’s Day and the socialist ...

By Ross Saunders The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) published its report this week on the death of Beth Roper, who died in an accident on a train near Bristol last December. The report has been anticipated by many in South Wales: Beth’s tragic death at just 28 was a great loss to her family, her numerous friends and the ...

By a Welsh NHS nurse Following a damning report on maternity deaths at Cwm Taf Health Board, maternity services have been put in to special measures. Between January 2016 and September 2018, there were around 25 serious incidents including eight still births and five neonatal deaths at the Royal Glamorgan hospital, Llantrisant and Prince Charles hospital, Merthyr Tydfil. Parents report ...

By Beth Webster, nurse, Cardiff West Socialist Party The NHS crisis has reached horrifying new levels. Over 300 NHS nurses have died by suicide in seven years. In 2014, one nurse a week took their own lives. This is a tragic reflection of how overworked and desperate staff have become in a health service decimated by Tory austerity. The risk ...