Tag Archives: environment

By Dave Reid Thousands of farmers have been protesting at the changes to inheritance tax laws contained in Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves’s Budget. The changes mean that the exemption from paying inheritance tax on agricultural land valued at over £1.5 million is removed, and farms worth over that amount will be liable for 20% inheritance tax when the owners die. ...

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 John Williams Even by Welsh Labour standards, the current Welsh Labour leadership election- that will decide the next First Minister of Wales has been uninspiring. Vaughan Gething has been in the news a lot recently, so most people in Wales know him by now, but it takes a while to remember the name of the other AM standing- Jeremy ...

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 ...

The quango charged with protecting the environment in Wales, Natural Resource Wales(NRW), has defended the dumping of 300,000 tonnes of nuclear-contaminated mud from the Hinkley Point nuclear power station on the south wales seashore, near Penarth. Despite widespread opposition, including a protest at the Senedd of hundreds of people, a licence has been granted by NRW to allow the mud ...

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 ...

By Sasha O’Neil Aberfan – it’s a name as resonant with tragedy for working class people in South Wales as Hillsborough is for Liverpool. For many the horror is all the greater because 116 of the 144 who died were young children. Like Hillsborough, Aberfan was a disaster that need never have happened. The coal waste tips that towered above ...