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By Dave Reid The 2019 general election marks a significant but temporary defeat for working people in Wales. The Johnson government looks set to implement a series of reactionary measures against working people and the cuts to NHS and other public services will continue. Inevitably the right-wing capitalist media are baying for blood to not just force Corbyn out but ...

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 ...

Socialist Party statement on the general election Trade unions must organise now to plan action to mobilise workers and young people to defend the NHS, public services, the environment, benefits and workers’ rights against Johnson’s attacks Blame the Blairites. Kick out the pro-capitalist saboteurs. Refound Labour as a mass democratic workers’ party with socialist policies Join the fightback! Join the ...

Editorial in The Socialist 04/12/2019 While the week before, a You Gov poll pointed towards a 68-majority for the Tories, on 2 December an ICM poll put them on 42% and Labour on 35%, just seven points behind. A Survation poll on the same day put Labour on 33%, a gap of nine. The press talk now is of the possibility ...

From the editorial of The Socialist 27/11/2019 Corbyn’s manifesto offers a glimpse of jobs, homes and public services for the 99%, protection for our environment – and making the capitalist class pay. No wonder the boss class and their representatives in politics and the press attack it – they will do anything to prevent a Corbyn victory. Since the 1980s, ...

Tories out! – Corbyn in with anti-austerity and socialist policies Whose side are you on? That was the theme of Jeremy Corbyn’s speech that launched Labour’s election campaign. While the Tories are on the side of the “dodgy landlords” who evict families to make way for luxury apartments, Corbyn has pledged to build 100,000 affordable homes and cap private rents. ...

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 ...

By Hannah Sell The minority Tory government faces a historic crisis, hanging on by a thread. Theresa May has lost an unprecedented series of votes in parliament, her party utterly split on Brexit. A snap general election could be called any time. These are critical times for the workers’ movement and Labour’s left-wing leadership. Three-and-a-half years ago, four months after ...

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 ...