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 ...
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Cardiff workers still fighting a Labour council over pay
By Joe Fathallah Unite members at Cardiff Council are now taking their eleventh week of strike action, against a Labour-run authority, for a decent pay increase in line with the cost of living. The workers have decided to concentrate on picketing County Hall, where most of the council meetings take place, for maximum impact. I got into a discussion on ...
Read More »Cardiff council workers strike to defend wages
By John Williams and Dave Reid Unite members at Cardiff council have started a two-week strike on 4 September which will be followed by a three week strike starting on 25 September unless the council agrees to an increase in pay. Council workers in Unite are also striking in Wrexham and will soon be followed by Gwynedd. However, there’s a ...
Read More »Newport Passport Office workers start five week strike
By Dave Reid An important section of the workforce at Newport Passport Office have begun five weeks of strike action as part of action by 1,000 Passport Office workers nationally. Members of PCS, the civil service union, in the examination department at the office are taking action until May 5th to fight for a decent pay rise. The government has ...
Read More »NEU Cymru members say “Reject the Welsh government offer”
By NEU Cymru members NEU Cymru has called off strike action on March 15th/16th after a revised offer was received from the Welsh government. But many NEU Cymru members are unhappy with the new offer and the cancellation of industrial action yet again by the union leadership. This is the response of Socialist Party members of NEU Cymru: “The solid ...
Read More »Reject Welsh government’s poor pay offers – support the strikes!
The Welsh government have made new pay offers to NHS workers and school teachers. “Too little, too late” has been the overwhelming response from health and school workers. Welsh Ambulance Service workers and NEU members have voted decisively to reject the offer, and will all return to industrial action to force more money from the Welsh and UK governments. The ...
Read More »February 1st – thousands strike across Wales
All out together on Budget Day! Tens of thousands of workers across Wales have struck today in the latest wave of strikes to coincide with the TUC protest the right to strike. NEU teachers, PCS members in the civil service, ASLEF train drivers and UCU university workers all came out today in a huge show of power by working people ...
Read More »1000 Welsh Ambulance staff strike for pay and NHS funding
Reports by Alec Thraves, Ross Saunders, Dave Reid 1000 workers in the Welsh Ambulance Service in Unite took strike action today in pursuit of a decent pay rise. Across Wales there were lively picket lines. Gwent Beacon House Cwmbran At every picket line workers were at pains to explain they did not want to strike, but had little option. Low ...
Read More »2023: Prepare for a year of continued class struggle
By Hannah Sell, Socialist Party General Secretary The Socialist Party enters 2023 full of optimism. The reasons for pessimism or even despair are obvious. 2022 was a year of dramatically falling living standards, frightening climate change, and the horror of war; and all this is set to continue. As inflation has soared, billions more people around the world are left ...
Read More »Unite the action – Prepare for a 24-hour general strike
Editorial of the Socialist issue 1205 The ‘Winter of Discontent 2022’ is on. Forty-four years after millions of workers went on strike in the one of the biggest periods of struggle since the 1926 General Strike, the phrase has continued to haunt the bosses and the capitalist establishment. Like then, the current strike wave, building by the week, has been ...
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