Tag Archives: Floods

By Dan Townsend (Pontypridd, RCT Socialist Party) Storm Bert has left communities across South Wales reeling. Streets have turned into rivers, homes are waterlogged, and Pontypridd’s lido – lovingly restored after the 2019-20 floods – is once again in ruins. While the destruction may seem natural, the root causes are anything but. RCT’s valleys, historically shaped by industry, now bear ...

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 ...