Youth & Students

By Gareth Bromhall This year’s event was sponsored by Unite the Union, and the local Labour council. Controversially, the event was also sponsored by Great Western Railway. The local secretary of train drivers’ union Aslef made it known to the trade union bloc that his branch and union were nearing 30 months in dispute with this employer. Tory hostility The ...

By Mariam Kamish ‘No exclusions for students who can’t pay’; ‘Extend payment to the end of courses’; ‘Allow students to pay at the old naira rate of N584’. Those were demands on our placards, as our delegation of students and supporters made its way through the campus of the University of South Wales (USW) on 3 May. We were carrying ...

By Berkay Kartav London Socialist Party On Saturday 13 January, once again hundreds of thousands of people flooded the streets of London to join the first national demonstration of 2024, marching from Bank to Downing Street. Appalled by the brutal war on Gaza and the recent US and British airstrikes in Yemen, it was clear that the anger towards world ...

By George Phillips, Cardiff University Socialist Students Staff were protesting throughout Cardiff University’s graduation week – 17 to 21 July. It’s part of the University and College Union’s (UCU) long-running dispute over pay, pensions, working conditions and workload. Throughout the week, UCU members handed out sashes and badges for graduating students to wear. Students were running towards the UCU stall ...

By John Williams Thousands marched in the streets of Cardiff for Pride Cymru 2023.  Everyone would agree that it was a vibrant, joyous event, where everyone could be themselves and celebrate the gains made for the LGBTQ+ community in previous years, but there’s still work to be done. With the conservative government still refusing to ban conversion therapy, and Rishi Sunak ...

By Joe Fathallah On the night of Monday 22nd May, rioting broke out on the Ely estate in western Cardiff. This was in response to tragic deaths of two teenagers, Harvey Evans and Kyrees Sullivan, in a road accident, following a chase with a vehicle belonging to South Wales Police. Alun Michael, the Labour Police and Crime Commissioner, initially attempted to deny the ...

On Saturday March 25th, hundreds of anti-fascist protesters gathered in Llantwit Major, opposing the far-right Patriotic Alternative who were spreading poisonous propaganda against Ukrainian refugees being housed in the area and had organised a ‘rally’ in Llantwit. Anti-fascists were made up of seasoned campaigners as well as workers from the community who didn’t want racist propaganda being spread around their ...

By John Williams, Unite Wales Young Members’ Committee (personal capacity) Young workers and trade unionists joined a lively protest outside Starbucks in Cardiff. Members of Unite the Union and the Bakers Union and supporters have mobilised in over 50 cities and towns to protest in solidarity with strikers in the USA who are striking against low pay and poor working ...

By Ginny Bayliss Swansea Socialist party On August 13th members of Cardiff and Swansea Socialist Party branches united with other left-wing groups from across the area to counter-protest far-right demonstrators outside a drag queen story hour for children and parents at Cardiff Central Library. Despite calling the protest, alt-right group Patriotic Front did not show which left a handful of ...

By Ginny Bayliss, Swansea and West Wales Socialist Party 150 protested outside government and BBC offices in Cardiff calling for a ban on conversion ‘therapy’ for LGBTQ+ people. The Socialist Party and Socialist Students had a strong contingent at the protest. The event, organised by Trans Aid Cymru, was mainly young, with people from across south Wales. Many shared moving ...