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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 ...

General Election now! For a Jeremy Corbyn-led government with socialist policies Boris Johnson, the Eton-educated millionaire and Trump wannabe, got to number ten with the votes of just ninety thousand members of the Tory Party, less than 0.25% of the electorate. Now he is using his position to over-rule elected MPs. This is one more indication of how big-business politicians ...

By Dave Reid The dissatisfaction with the British capitalist establishment, first manifested in the Scottish Indyref in 2014 and in the Brexit vote in 2016, was further developed in the Euro elections. The two main parties that between them got 80% of the vote in Wales in 2017 got just 22% on Thursday, representing the rejection of Westminster politicians by ...

Editorial of the April 2019 issue of Socialist Today (no. 227) As the first act in the Brexit drama reaches its concluding scenes, only one thing about the plot is certain. The reverberations from the working-class revolt against the capitalist establishment which, at bottom, the 2016 EU referendum result represented – a shout of rage at the age of austerity ...

Tories torn apart, French workers and youth in revolt, ‘populism’ on the rise … revolution in the air? By Peter Taaffe, General Secretary of the Socialist Party “I have never been more ashamed to be a Conservative. We continue to be led by a mule flogging a dead horse” (Allison Pearson, Daily Telegraph columnist). This blistering attack on Prime Minister Theresa May and the Tory government – before ...

Theresa May’s government is on the brink. Yesterday the resignations began. Esther McVey and Dominic Raab were first out the door, along with a number of junior ministers. More could potentially follow them in the hours ahead. Coups, plots and leadership challenges are all being openly discussed. The trade union and labour movement must intervene now. Jeremy Corbyn and the ...

Editorial from The Socialist October 17 2018 Before this week’s EU summit Tory ministers were once again desperately trying to square the circle on their Brexit proposals. At such a late stage and with no EU withdrawal agreement, May still hung onto a variant of her ‘Chequers proposal’, despite it facing opposition from many Tory backbench Brexiteers and Remainers and ...

From the editorial of The Socialist If a variant of British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Chequers proposal eventually becomes a Brexit deal, it will mean Britain remaining subject to much of the EU’s austerity-promoting and privatising neoliberalism. On the other hand, if the Tories who want a ‘hard’ break from the EU win out, it will also be against workers’ ...

By Roger Butler, Swansea Trade Union Council delegate In probably one of the most passive and smallest attended Wales TUC Congress, it was Socialist Party members who brought some life to the Congress last week by intervening in numerous debates and  appealing for basic democratic rights that went down well with delegates. Nine Socialist Party Wales members attended the biennial ...

The Committee For A Workers International (to which the Socialist Party is affiliated) held the annual meeting of its International Executive Committee earlier this month. This is Matt Dobson’s report of the discussion on European Perspectives: The CWI IEC discussion on Europe reflected the political instability and upheaval seen this year across the continent. Tony Saunois from the International Secretariat ...