Tag Archives: Swansea

By Gareth Bromhall, Swansea Socialist Party and Lynne, branch secretary, Swansea Unite Community branch We were saddened to hear of the loss of long-standing Socialist Party member Kate Jones on 20 December. Most recently a member in Swansea, Kate was previously a member in Brighton and Llanelli. A lifelong Marxist, Kate became politically active in her teens and joined Militant, ...

By Dave Reid and Gareth Bromhall Thousands across have marched to protest at the inaction of the world’s capitalist politicians to prevent catastrophic climate change. Well over 1000 marched from Cardiff City Hall to the Senedd. Socialist Party Wales and Socialist Students had large and lively contingents shouting “Our planet is not for sale” and “Socialist change, not climate change”. ...

By Dave Warren Swansea Socialist Party The industrial action over workplace safety at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) has now entered its fifth month. The PCS union has operated a strategy based on targeted action, bringing out groups of workers at different times and paying them strike pay of £40 a day. Currently, members in the Drivers Medical ...

By Dave Warren, PCS Member and retired DVLA branch secretary The dispute at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) over Covid safety is now in its third month. The dispute is unusual, in that the leadership of PCS, the union representing the workers, is taking direct responsibility, with regular Zoom meetings for members chaired by the President Fran Heathcote ...

By Dave Reid Engineers working for BT’s Open Reach are taking another five days of strike action at four workplaces across South Wales against the imposed re-grading of their jobs. A newly aggressive management at BT are attempting to force the repayment project engineer (RPE) workforce to move to new management grades that would undermine their terms and conditions, put ...

By Dave Warren former DVLA PCS secretary The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) branch of PCS has voted for industrial action against management’s failure to provide a safe working environment. During the first lockdown only 250 essential staff out of the 5,000 strong workforce was required to physically go into the workplace, but since September over 2,000 workers have ...

Workers are forced to spend hours working within a metre of other workers, but can be fined if they protest at these conditions!

Socialist students in Swansea and Bangor universities have called rent strikes against the rip-off of students by the university bosses. Students are being charged full £9000 fees and rent despite being prevented from attending lectures or university by the Covid crisis. A Swansea Socialist Student explains: “Since moving to university in September, students at Swansea university have been treated as ...

Expensive online courses in ghost towns Going to university right now feels like walking into a trap made of fire, surrounded by circling sharks, as alarms blare off in every direction. Watching the news and seeing the blame go to students for the rise in cases just goes to show how afraid the capitalist class is of young people today. ...

By Gareth Bromhall Gareth Bromall (GB) spoke with a 12 year old pupil of Penyreol Comprehensive in Swansea about their experience of what going back to school was like last week. Penyreol Comprehensive has its own risk assessment that stipulates how social distancing will be maintained with a one way system in the school and bubbles for each year etc. ...