Tag Archives: austerity

Gan Dave Reid Mae etholiad cyffredin 2019 yn drechiad sylweddol ond dros dro i weithwyr yng Nghymru. Mae’n debyg bydd llywodraeth Johnson yn gweithredu cyfres o fesurau  yn erbyn gweithwyr a bydd toriadau i’r GIG a gwasanaethau cyhoeddus eraill yn parhau. Yn anochel mae’r cyfryngau cyfalafol asgell dde yn udo am waed nid yn unig i geisio gorfodi Corbyn i ...

By Dave Reid Welsh politics is in a state of flux with a very uncertain situation developing. The disillusionment with the political establishment was reflected in the 53% vote to leave the EU in 2016 and the current rising support for independence. All the Westminster-based parties that have implemented austerity have lost support in Wales. The main pro-capitalist political parties ...

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 ...

By Ross Saunders Statistics show that austerity has created terrible suffering in our communities. Life expectancy – stalled. Infant mortality – up. Children in poverty – up. Suicide rates – up. And now a new report has confirmed that it has also seriously damaged the economy. The New Economics Foundation has said that cuts by Tory-led governments in the last ...

By Gareth Bromhall Socialist Party members took part in the Swansea Trades Council lobby of the Swansea City Councils budget setting meeting on the 28th February, along side trade unionists from across the city. The council, a labour administration once again waved through tens of millions in cuts to jobs and services in the city, whilst praising themselves for a job well ...

Swansea Trades Council has issued a call to arms to lobby Swansea Council to step back from another £24 million cuts to services. It has called a lobby of the council on Thursday 28th February at 2.00 pm. (The council has brought forward its meeting from the normal 5.00 pm start to 3.00 pm in an apparent attempt to deter ...

A battle is raging inside and outside the Labour Party in Caerphilly county borough (mainly covering Islwyn and Caerphilly constituencies) against the cuts that the Labour-run council is inflicting on public services in the borough. In particular there has been outrage that the meals on wheels service is being effectively abolished while another quarter of a million pounds is being ...

Unison has appealed to councillors on Carmarthenshire Council to step back from implementing cuts but instead to campaign for a no-cuts budget. The letter opens with the heading “No Merry Christmas for members whose jobs are under threat – No Happy New Year for the public whose services will be devastated. Set a legal no cuts budget, defend jobs, services ...

By Alec Thraves, Swansea Socialist Party If you want to sneak through £24 million of council cuts next year, call a Cabinet meeting at 10.00 in the morning when most residents are at work, waffle through the ten minutes allowed for public questions and then vote unanimously for the council officers’ latest round of brutal cuts! Within twenty minutes Swansea ...