Tag Archives: climate change

By Dan Townsend (Pontypridd, RCT Socialist Party) Storm Bert has left communities across South Wales reeling. Streets have turned into rivers, homes are waterlogged, and Pontypridd’s lido – lovingly restored after the 2019-20 floods – is once again in ruins. While the destruction may seem natural, the root causes are anything but. RCT’s valleys, historically shaped by industry, now bear ...

By Joe Fathallah Over 3,000 farmers and agricultural workers descended on Cardiff on 28 February to protest outside the Senedd (parliament) against the Welsh government’s proposed changes to the Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS). The plans would mean that, to continue to receive the subsidy, without which small farms could not exist, farmers would have to give up 10% of their ...

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”. ...

By Ross Saunders Two storms in a week brought some of the worst floods in living memory to Wales and parts of England and Scotland, killing at least five people and damaging thousands of homes. Big business didn’t send the rain. But the distorted priorities of the profit-obsessed capitalist system are to blame for the misery that ordinary people must ...

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 ...

By Gareth Bromhall Build a movement to challenge the profit systemBuild mass walkouts on 15 March “We have not come here to beg the world leaders to care for our future. They have ignored us in the past and they will ignore us again. “We have come here to let them know that change is coming whether they like it or not. ...

Hundreds of school students went on strike and descended in a very lively protest on the Senedd in Cardiff to protest at the inaction of world governments and corporations to prevent climate change. School students struck in schools in Cardiff, the Vale of Glamorgan and Carmarthenshire. The rally was part of a global movement Youth Strike 4 Climate which is ...

By Brian Harrison, Ramy Khalil and Patrick Ayers As Hurricane Irma batters the Caribbean and United States we publish this article from Houston by Socialist Alternative, the voice in the United States of the Committee for a Workers International, to which the Socialist Party is affiliated. Hurricane Harvey is a historic tragedy affecting millions of people. Socialist Alternative wishes to ...