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By Sasha O’Neil  “What’s important,” Sophie, Year 8, told the meeting last Thursday, “is to tell people how socialists like us are coming together to target capitalism and politicians.” Like Mason, Year 6, she’d spotted the “Socialist Change, Not Climate Change” posters we’d put up around their school and been eager to take part. When I asked Sophie whether she’d ...

Workers in areas with the highest unemployment in the country are under threat of losing their jobs from the government department that is meant to cut unemployment – the Department of Works and Pensions (DWP)! The DWP are portraying the plan as creating jobs in the valleys when in fact valleys workers will lose them and the DWP will lose ...

Originally under a death sentence from RCT council Rhydyfelin library, but saved from closure by a mass campaign, re-opened in brand new building today It was all smiles for residents and staff at Rhydyfelin Library today as it re-opened in a brand new building. The smiles radiated justifiable pride because it was their campaign that saved the library from closure ...

Rhydyfelin campaigners show it pays to fight cuts In a stunning victory campaigners have forced Rhondda Cynon Taff council to re-open Rhydyfelin library. After occupying the library and chaining themselves to the bookshelves the campaign took the council to court over the procedure for closing the library. The combined pressure of a vibrant campaign by the community with the threat ...

Campaigners slam RCT council for library closure By Dave Reid Community campaigners occupied Rhydyfelin Library near Pontypridd on May 31 in protest at its closure by Rhondda Cynon Taff council. Four of them chained themselves to the bookshelves. The library was due to close that afternoon but 100 local people thronged into it in a community show of support for ...

Health campaigners call for a united campaign against the downgrading of services By Dave Reid People in Rhondda Cynon Taff have reacted with anger and alarm at the threat from the Welsh government to close a fully functioning A&E at Royal Glamorgan hospital near Pontypridd. The cuts at the Royal Glamorgan is part of the South Wales Programme proposed by ...