Tag Archives: Coronavirus

By Katrine Williams, Wales TUC general council (in a personal capacity The UK Tory government is setting up another colossal experiment which could put wave three of the pandemic into super-exponential growth. Placing all the blame on us. The ‘learning to live with Covid’ mantra just means the Tories are happy to accept more people will die and do nothing ...

Workers are forced to spend hours working within a metre of other workers, but can be fined if they protest at these conditions!

Socialist students in Swansea and Bangor universities have called rent strikes against the rip-off of students by the university bosses. Students are being charged full £9000 fees and rent despite being prevented from attending lectures or university by the Covid crisis. A Swansea Socialist Student explains: “Since moving to university in September, students at Swansea university have been treated as ...

By Socialist Party members in education https://spined.co.uk NEU Executive announces emergency decision to call on members to exercise ‘Section 44’ Our schools and colleges are not safe. Full classrooms provide an environment where the new variant will quickly spread. No member of staff and no pupil should have to work in such dangerous conditions.That’s why, to protect their safety, and ...

By Hannah Sell, General Secretary of the Socialist Party The world was united in misery in 2020. Too many deaths from the pandemic, job losses, pay cuts and poverty were the experience in virtually every country on the planet. Britain, as the year ends, is leading the world in a new surge in the virus; with the highest ever level ...

Belatedly the Welsh government has announced the closures of secondary schools in Wales next week, but not of primary schools – yet. This was a last minute reaction to the rising cases in Welsh schools and the fact that large numbers of pupils and teachers were indicating that they would in effect boycott the schools any way so they could ...

By John Williams (Bar worker Unite, Cardiff in a personal capacity) Hospitality has been one of the worst effected industries during the Covid pandemic. There were over 30,000 job losses at the beginning of the crisis. Many weren’t eligible for furlough. Hours were cut drastically and people were sent home early as demand plummeted. Then we had Boris Johnson and ...

By Ross Saunders The Welsh government’s strategy for containing the virus is not working. Wales currently has the highest infection rate in the UK and a record 1800 people in hospital with the disease – higher than during the first wave. But the Welsh government’s half-measures response will neither stop the spread of the virus nor protect the incomes of ...

By Ross Saunders The Welsh government is imposing a national “firebreak” lockdown from Friday, as the second wave of the corona virus washes over the country. From Friday 23rd October to Monday 9th November everyone will be asked to stay at home and many workplaces in leisure, retail and hospitality will shut. Children in years 9 and above will also ...

By Hannah Sell, Socialist Party General Secretary A decade ago, following the worldwide financial crash, a Financial Times editorial congratulated capitalism on a bit of luck that “the left” was “missing in action in what should have been its finest hour. In the deepest global downturn since the second world war, no blueprint for a fundamentally different method of organising ...