Tag Archives: Welsh Labour

By Mariam Kamish, Secretary Caerphilly Trades Council Caerphilly Council, forced onto the defensive in the High Court on Thursday, showedcontempt for our small Valleys communities, fighting to hold onto libraries you can walk to.‘If you choose to live 12 miles down a farm track’, their barrister told the court, ‘that’s yourchoice!’ Such is the council’s scorn for the working class ...

By Dave Warren, Swansea As expected, Labour suffered a crushing defeat at the election for the Senedd (Welsh Parliament) on 7 May. Labour won just nine seats out of 96 in a newly extended Senedd, down from 30 seats out of 60 previously. The First Minister, Eluned Morgan lost her seat and has resigned as Labour leader in Wales. It ...

Socialist Party member Ben Golightly is an elected coordinator for Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) Cymru. He is the lead Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) candidate in Gwyr Abertawe (Swansea and Gower) for the Welsh Senedd elections. £200 a month has been cut from new Universal Credit claims for those unable to work. This is biting now. And it was voted ...

By Dave Bartlett (TUSC candidate in Caerdydd Ffynnon Taf) Socialist stand fights for new workers’ party Dave Bartlett, Cardiff Socialist Party The Welsh Senedd elections take place this May and while the final outcome is not yet known, one thing is certain: Welsh Labour is facing down the barrel of a gun. Socialist Party Wales will be presenting a socialist ...

By Dave Reid Health visitors working for Cwm Taf Health Board have voted to extend their month-long strike for fair pay for a further two months, determined to win the banding which is theirs by right. In a process that began in 2021, Health Board (HB) bosses signed an internal job grading matching them as a band 7 acknowledging a masters qualification ...

By Dave Bartlett (Secretary, Cardiff Trades Union Council) Around 250 assembled in Merthyr on 25 October for the first ‘all-Wales gathering’ of Your Party. The meeting was led by Beth Winter (former Labour MP) and Mark Serwotka (former general secretary of PCS) who have been given the leadership of Your Party Wales. This was a Your Party Wales event but ...

By Geraint Thomas (Caerphilly Socialist Party) It was a crushing result for the capitalist establishment parties at the Caerphilly Senedd by-election on 23 October. Labour and the Tories together got a combined 13% of the vote. Together, they won the support of barely over 6.5% of the total electorate. Labour’s vote plummeted by 35.4 percentage points. The turnout, at 50.4%, ...

Conference pledges to support only candidates and parties that will stand up for the working class By Dave Warren, PCS Wales and Swansea Trades Council Over 50 trade unionists from 11 unions attended a conference hosted by Cardiff Trades Council on 18 October. The ‘Wales Trade Union Conference on the Crisis of Political Representation’ was endorsed by five trades councils, ...

Mariam Kamish, Secretary Caerphilly Trades Council Caerphilly Council voted on 14 May to close ten libraries and one of three threatened leisure centres, two to stay open with reduced facilities and shorter hours. Caerphilly Trades Union Council and local campaigners are working to link up the local areas for a fight to save them all. For the second time in ...

By Dave Reid, Socialist Party Wales secretary Eluned Morgan, Labour First Minister of Wales, took the first steps to distance Welsh Labour from the historically unpopular Starmer-led Westminster government, declaring that she would “call out” UK Labour if they undermined Wales. She called for Starmer to halt part of the UK government’s plans to cut disability benefits, rethink cuts to ...