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Socialist Party member Ben Golightly is an elected coordinator for Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) Cymru. He is the lead Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) candidate in Gwyr Abertawe (Swansea and Gower) for the Welsh Senedd elections. £200 a month has been cut from new Universal Credit claims for those unable to work. This is biting now. And it was voted ...

Socialist Party member John Williams is the lead Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) candidate in Caerdydd Ffynnon Taf (Cardiff North and East) for the Welsh Senedd elections. He is a young hospitality worker, LGBT+ activist, and chair of Cardiff general branch of Unite the Union. “A lot of people in my industry think that politics isn’t for them, that the establishment ...

Build a socialist election challenge Fourteen years of Tory government look set to come to an end on 4 July, 2024. Fourteen years of the super-rich raking in £billions, while the rest of us suffer falling living standards and crumbling public services. No wonder millions will be rejoicing to see the back of Sunak and his cronies. Unfortunately, however, a ...

From the Socialist Issue 1256 by Hannah Sell, Socialist Party General Secretary Internationally 2023 saw unimaginable horror being suffered by Palestinians in Gaza, the continuation of the grinding Ukraine war with hundreds of thousands of casualties, and a COP28 conference that failed to agree any proposals that will seriously combat climate change. Here in Britain, we are still in the ...

By Ross Saunders Biggest TUSC council election stand offers alternative Liar Boris Johnson and his Tories were given a bloody nose in the 2022 council elections in Wales, but none of the other parties of the Welsh capitalist establishment were able to fully take advantage of the developing anger at Tory rule. Labour now controls eight councils, Plaid Cymru four, ...

Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition launches its election campaign in Wales TUSC’s Welsh parliament election campaign got off to a cracking start when over 70 attended the campaign launch meeting online, many of them brand new to the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC). In just a few short weeks TUSC has succeeded in attracting enough new supporters to stand ...

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. ...