Tag Archives: Your Party

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 statement The eruption of enthusiasm for Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s Your Party in summer 2025 was a product of the huge forces exerted by the acute need for the working class to have its own party. They are forces that are greater now than at any point since Tony Blair completed his counter-revolution to turn the Labour ...

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 ...

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, ...

By Dave Reid Needed—a real political alternative for the working class The Wales Gathering of Your Party on October 25th in Merthyr is a welcome, if limited, start to building a new workers’ and socialist party. The 31,000 people in Wales who indicated in July they wanted to join shows the huge potential for a mass party to challenge the ...

By Mariam Kamish As Labour leader of Caerphilly Council, Sean Morgan cut 600 jobs last September. Meals on Wheels and Blackwood Miners Institute only escaped Labour’s axe after massive protests organised by trade union Unison. Under his leadership, the council did manage to close the very popular Llancaiach Fawr manor house – an act of historic vandalism. And then they ...

Dave Walsh, Liverpool Socialist Party member, is chair of Liverpool and District Trades Union Council. As a teenager in the 1980s, he was one of hundreds of young people employed as an apprentice by Liverpool’s Militant-led Labour council which defied the cuts and beat back Thatcher’s Tories. For many years, the Socialist Party has put the demand for a new ...

Sarah Sachs Eldridge, Socialist Party Executive Committee, responds to questions from socialists in Germany, members of Sol, the German section of the CWI (the socialist international which the Socialist Party is also a member of) 700,000+ have signed up to support the call for a new party announced by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana. What is the background to that development?   Since the ...

Editorial of the Socialist issue 1331 On 21 July over one thousand trade unionists – on Zoom and via a live feed – met to discuss the fight for a new workers’ party. The meeting arose from a petition for trade unionists – with over 2,000 trade unionists, including 43 current and former members of trade union executive committees signed ...