Youth & Students

Br Ross Saunders Protesters marched in Cardiff on Sunday as part the wave of international solidarity for Jacob Blake which swept around the world after Blake was shot in the back by Police in Wisconsin on the 23rd August.The protest also highlighted the case of Mercy Baguma, a Ugandan asylum seeker who was found dead in Glasgow next to her baby, ...

Over a hundred gathered in Cardiff at a protest organised at short notice in solidarity with LGBTQ activists who are being persecuted by the Polish government. President Andrzej Duda has attacked the rights of LGBTQ people, emboldening bigots across the country. Towns run by right-wing parties have declared themselves “LGBT-free zones” and many face harassment or are forced back into the ...

From the Socialist Party Scotland website By Jim Halfpenny, EIS joint secretary West Dunbartonshire (personal capacity) The experiment has begun. With shameful political expediency the SNP government in Scotland has reopened schools and brought all pupils, teachers and support staff back together in the midst of this pandemic. While their position is that everyone 12 and over must physically distance ...

By Theo Sharieff , Young Socialists national organiser Protests and anger by school students have forced the Tories into a humiliating double U-turn over A-level and GCSE grade moderation. The retreat arrived like the slow collapse of a set of dominoes – starting in Scotland, then Northern Ireland, Wales, and ending with England. Coronavirus has exposed the class divide in ...

By Ross Saunders Campaigners in Wales are urging the Welsh Government to reconsider its reckless plan to re-open to all children on the 29th June.   Campaign group Parents for Safety First has called an online public meeting for 6pm on Wednesday 24th June (Zoom ID:854 4340 1884). The group gained 4000 supporters on its Facebook group in its first week and organised car-convoy ...

The protests against police violence and structural racism across the US, also condemned similar injustices in the U.K

By Dani Smith Around 200 people took part in a socially distanced demonstration held by the Black Lives Matter campaign in Cardiff. This turnout – which is fantastic in light of the pandemic and the rapid nature of the development of the protest movement around the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis – reflects a burning desire amongst working people ...

By Cardiff University Socialist Students Attempts to scrap the support that Cardiff University Students’ Union had given the UCU strike were roundly defeated last night when Tory students couldn’t even get enough students to turn up to an “Emergency Members’ Meeting” (EMM) to debate their motion!Last November the Students’ Union AGM voted to support action by the UCU by a ...

By Sasha O’Neil  “What’s important,” Sophie, Year 8, told the meeting last Thursday, “is to tell people how socialists like us are coming together to target capitalism and politicians.” Like Mason, Year 6, she’d spotted the “Socialist Change, Not Climate Change” posters we’d put up around their school and been eager to take part. When I asked Sophie whether she’d ...

A rally by far-right For Britain leader Anne Marie Waters, an openly racist islamophobe and political ally of Tommy Robinson, was held in Swansea on 27 April. A motley crew of 40-50 people gathered for a ‘national mobilisation’ within a tight police cordon to hear Waters’s hate speech, under the guise of a pro-Brexit protest. Some local leave voters expressed ...