Youth & Students

By Joe Fathallah, TUSC candidate for Grangetown I’m standing as a candidate in the Cardiff Council elections on May 5th, in Grangetown ward, for the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition. Grangetown has 44% of children growing up in poverty, and this is in no small part due to the actions of the council in passing on vicious cuts to our ...

By John Williams TUSC candidate Plasnewydd ward, Cardiff Rents are out of control. The average rent for a property in Britain has risen to £969 a month, according to Zoopla. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the average rent has increased by £62 a month. Wales has seen the third-highest increase – 9.8% in the last year. There are over ...

By Michael Johnson, Socialist Party LGBTQ+ group convenor Since 2018, Tory ministers have promised to ban the barbaric practice of conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ people on 35 separate occasions. In that time, eight countries have passed bans. However, on 31 March, news leaked that the Boris Johnson government was dropping the proposed ban. This news met with an unsurprising backlash. ...

By Dave Reid and Gareth Bromhall Thousands across have marched to protest at the inaction of the world’s capitalist politicians to prevent catastrophic climate change. Well over 1000 marched from Cardiff City Hall to the Senedd. Socialist Party Wales and Socialist Students had large and lively contingents shouting “Our planet is not for sale” and “Socialist change, not climate change”. ...

Young workers and students took to the streets in Wales to protest for better pay and conditions and against the fees rip off in universities at rallies organised by Youth Fight For Jobs. In Cardiff students marched from the university down to the city centre to join young trade union activists at a rally before marching to the job centre. ...

By Evan Vaughan (Swansea Socialist Party) The Youth Fight for Jobs campaign has been relaunched, ready to fight the slew of job losses expected to come down the pipeline after the furlough scheme ends. This follows the ending of the eviction ban. That has been replaced by longer eviction notices, a pathetic attempt to prevent the hardship coming to workers. ...

By a Cardiff bar worker Working in the hospitality industry, has been described by some in the past as a form of ‘Stockholm syndrome’. We like our job, the people we meet and the service we provide, but why should we just accept the inevitable exploitation and insecurity’s we will face on shift? And it’s not like hospitality bosses haven’t ...

By Joe Fathallah Up to 300 people attended a demonstration in Cardiff city centre on Saturday April 10th, organised by Young Socialists Wales, in support of Siyanda Mngaza, an innocent black woman serving a four-and-a-half-year prison sentence. In May 2019, Siyanda was brutally attacked whilst on a bank holiday weekend by a group of three people, two of them male ...

Hundreds of people have marched and rallied at Cardiff Bay police station to protest the death of Mohamud Muhammed Hassan shortly after being released from custody at the police station. Despite Covid restrictions inevitably inhibiting the turnouts, hundreds of working people from all over Cardiff have continued to assemble as carefully as possible at the police station, outraged at police brutality that ...

Socialist students in Swansea and Bangor universities have called rent strikes against the rip-off of students by the university bosses. Students are being charged full £9000 fees and rent despite being prevented from attending lectures or university by the Covid crisis. A Swansea Socialist Student explains: “Since moving to university in September, students at Swansea university have been treated as ...