Tag Archives: Welsh Labour

By Dave Reid The next UK government is likely to be a Labour government led by Keir Starmer. The huge lead that Starmer currently enjoys is not a vote of confidence in him, the current leadership of the Labour Party or their (non) policies. Rather it is a reflection of the disgust with the divided Tory party and the effects ...

By John Williams (Cardiff East Socialist Party) Labour-led Cardiff city council are attempting to push through the privatisation of St David’s Hall, (currently in public hands) to Live-Nation, quoting a maintenance backlog of £55m- which is actually more like £9m, according to the campaign organisers against the plans. They’ve refused to seek alternative funding streams, despite a signed letter from ...

Across Wales, and much of England, ambulance workers in GMB and Unite are on strike only answering emergency calls. Anger is growing on the picket line against the UK Tory government’s refusal to even talk about a decent pay rise, but also at the Welsh Labour government that is keeping millions of pounds in reserves while refusing any further rise ...

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 ...

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 ...

My experience as a first-time Wales TUC delegate By John Williams, delegate from Cardiff Trades Union Council Between 24-26 May, around 200 delegates attended the conference of Wales Trade Union Congress (TUC). I attended as a delegate from Cardiff Trades Council.  As a young hospitality worker, I was keen to see what the trade union leadership in Wales had to ...

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 John Williams TUSC candidate Plasnewydd ward, Cardiff Rents are out of control. The average rent for a property in Britain has risen to £969 a month, according to Zoopla. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the average rent has increased by £62 a month. Wales has seen the third-highest increase – 9.8% in the last year. There are over ...

Cardiff bin workers in Unite the Union have voted by 98% to strike against management bullying and the use of agencies. This massive vote on a 77% turnout follows years of bullying by management. The bin workers earned huge respect from the public all the way through the pandemic as they kept this vital service going – even at the ...

Review of “The Welsh Way” by Dave Reid The Welsh Way: Essays on Neoliberalism and Devolution Edited by Daniel Evans, Kieron Smith and Huw Williams Published by Parthian Books, 2021, £10 Ever since the first devolved Welsh assembly in 1999 the idea has been promoted by many on the left that Welsh Labour, and the Welsh governments led by it, ...