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By Dave Reid Hundreds of people in Covid-hit Rhondda Cynon Taff were turned away from a local Serco-run testing centre after the UK government had imposed a quota of just 60 tests because of high demand in England that the private corporations contracted to process the tests could not cope with. This happened despite when Rhondda Cynon Taff is on ...

NHS workers across Wales and the UK were on the march today for a pay rise. There were protests in Cardiff, Swansea, Merthyr and Bridgend. Below Beth Webster a nurse at UHW hospital Cardiff explains the anger at the government’s refusal to increase pay. Cardiff On the march to the Senedd Over 500 angry nurses, NHS staff and supporters gathered ...

A mass campaign by working class people in RCT has forced the Welsh government into a humiliating retreat

Taken from the latest issue of Socialism Today Despite the heroic efforts of healthworkers the NHS has been ill-prepared to cope with the coronavirus pandemic. But the roots of this lie in years of neo-liberal policies, including the marketisation drive in England of the New Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, argues JON DALE. Ten years of ConDem ...

Nationalise production to guarantee supplies of PPE By Beth Webster, ICU nurse at University Hospital Wales, Cardiff Health workers don’t want medals, and care workers don’t want badges. We want the equipment we need to be safe while we do our jobs, and we want a decent pay rise that means worrying about paying the bills isn’t distracting us from ...

By Dave Reid Over 1200 health workers in the NHS in Wales have signed a letter (below) appealing to the Welsh government to step in to provide the necessary resources to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic and end the scandalous situation in our hospitals where patients and NHS workers and their families are falling ill to the virus due only to ...

Carmarthenshire County Unison branch has spoken out at the failure of the Welsh government to provide PPE

Statement from the International Secretariat of the Committee For A Workers International On the other side of the coronavirus pandemic crisis, things will never be the same again. This will be similar to the situation after the two world wars of the twentieth century. The general situation has already unmistakably “changed, changed utterly!” Moreover, it is the rapid speed of ...

By Ross Saunders Boris Johnson’s response to the new coronavirus epidemic has been one of the most inept of all the leaders of the capitalist world. That the Welsh government, which could have taken a sharply contrasting independent line, instead followed in his footsteps as he lost his balance, makes a farce out of a tragedy. Wales should immediately and ...

Dr. Jon Dale As new coronavirus infections gather pace – in Britain and around the world – Boris Johnson claims the country is “well-prepared with a fantastic NHS.” Who’s he kidding? NHS performance this winter was the worst on record – before a single patient developed coronavirus Covid-19. Decades of under-investment in all public services were followed by the past ...