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What is the point of a Welsh Labour government if it merely passes on UK Tory cuts? By Dave Reid Happy New Year! – the Welsh government has put forward a devastating budget for public services in Wales for 2024. The figures are terrifying: £1.3 billion of cuts in real terms since 2021, even though Welsh Government ministers have said ...

By Joe Fathallah (Cardiff West Socialist Party) Hundreds of services could be cut from already meagre and expensive bus services in Wales as the Welsh government yet again passes on cuts from the Tory Westminster government while bus companies, either private or arms-length municipal companies that are run as if private, prioritise profit over service. Socialist Party members have kicked ...

By Jonathan Golding (Cardiff East Socialist Party) Pentwyn Leisure Centre never reopened after the pandemic. It is now threatened with downgrading to a smaller pool, with 70% of the site rented to Cardiff Rugby. The Labour council and GLL/Better – the private company that manages the site – insist that this is the only financially viable option. That is disputed ...

By Mark Evans (Carmarthenshire County Unison Branch Secretary (personal capacity) Unison Local Government Service Group Executive personal capacity) The Welsh Labour government has threatened new round of cuts to Welsh public services, incredibly including to the NHS (already on its knees), citing a £900 million hole in Welsh public finances. The Socialist Party has highlighted how the Welsh Assembly Labour Government ...

By Joe Fathallah On the night of Monday 22nd May, rioting broke out on the Ely estate in western Cardiff. This was in response to tragic deaths of two teenagers, Harvey Evans and Kyrees Sullivan, in a road accident, following a chase with a vehicle belonging to South Wales Police. Alun Michael, the Labour Police and Crime Commissioner, initially attempted to deny the ...

By John Williams (Cardiff East Socialist Party) Labour-led Cardiff city council are attempting to push through the privatisation of St David’s Hall, (currently in public hands) to Live-Nation, quoting a maintenance backlog of £55m- which is actually more like £9m, according to the campaign organisers against the plans. They’ve refused to seek alternative funding streams, despite a signed letter from ...

By Joe Fathallah, TUSC candidate for Grangetown I’m standing as a candidate in the Cardiff Council elections on May 5th, in Grangetown ward, for the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition. Grangetown has 44% of children growing up in poverty, and this is in no small part due to the actions of the council in passing on vicious cuts to our ...

By Sam Cartwright, Wrexham On the 6th of March Ian Stevenson (86) was walking to his home in Johnstown, Wrexham when he was struck by a passing car. According to the family, the first call to the emergency services was made at 19:31 pm, but the ambulance did not arrive for another four hours leaving Mr. Stevenson on the ground in ...

By Sarah Sachs-Eldridge ‘Rape has been decriminalised’. This was a 2019 assessment of a situation where just 1.6% of rapes result in someone being charged. Each year around 128,000 people are victims of rape but only just over 2,000 charges are made. This was a factor in the outpouring of anger that followed the killing of Sarah Everard in March ...

By Mark Evans, Secretary Carmarthenshire County Unison (in a personal capacity) A report from the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA) Finance Subgroup paints a bleak picture for the future of local government and the important services it provides in Wales (COVID-19 INCOME AND EXPENDITURE SURVEY FOR QUARTER TWO AND FUTURE BUDGET PRESSURES). The report includes a survey by the WLGA ...