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Socialist Party member John Williams is the lead Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) candidate in Caerdydd Ffynnon Taf (Cardiff North and East) for the Welsh Senedd elections. He is a young hospitality worker, LGBT+ activist, and chair of Cardiff general branch of Unite the Union. “A lot of people in my industry think that politics isn’t for them, that the establishment ...

As news broke of the Johnson government’s implosion, delegates at the annual general meeting (AGM – the annual conference) of the RMT transport workers’ union were discussing what political strategy the union should adopt to meet the tests ahead. A reshaping of capitalist political representation is under way in Britain, the outcome of which is far from predictable. As the ...

By Ross Saunders Biggest TUSC council election stand offers alternative Liar Boris Johnson and his Tories were given a bloody nose in the 2022 council elections in Wales, but none of the other parties of the Welsh capitalist establishment were able to fully take advantage of the developing anger at Tory rule. Labour now controls eight councils, Plaid Cymru four, ...

By Dave Reid and Alec Thraves Welsh Labour has won the Welsh parliament election with an increased vote and seats. Mark Drakeford’s government benefited from the “incumbency factor” and actually increased its number of seats in the Senedd to 30, half of the 60 seats. This was despite polls at the beginning of the Covid crisis indicating that it would ...

Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition launches its election campaign in Wales TUSC’s Welsh parliament election campaign got off to a cracking start when over 70 attended the campaign launch meeting online, many of them brand new to the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC). In just a few short weeks TUSC has succeeded in attracting enough new supporters to stand ...

The 100% anti-cuts, socialist alternative presented by the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) has been welcomed on the doorstep by people who are desperate to see an end to austerity. But some figures on the Labour right are less enthusiastic that we’re standing in the Welsh council elections. We’ve been accused of splitting the ‘left-wing’ vote; even of sexism ...