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21 September 2011
Wales mine deaths: Privatisation comes under the spotlight
The tragic deaths of four coalminers at the Gleision Colliery in the Swansea Valley, South Wales, has inevitably raised the issue of safety in the mining industry...
16 September 2011
Remploy workers "will not go gently" - or at all!
Remploy workers won't be bullied by the 'millionaires club' in the government into giving up the fight to save supported employment in the UK, writes Les Woodward
14 September 2011
Greenwich: As we reported last week, Socialist Party member Onay Kasab (Kaz) has been expelled from Unison for allegedly encouraging Greenwich branch members to leave Unison and join Unite...
31 August 2011
6,500 Swansea children in poverty
In 2010, a report commissioned by Swansea council's Children and Young People's Overview and Scrutiny board estimated that 6,500 children live in poverty in the city, write Ronnie Job and Sharif Bhagat, Swansea Socialist Party.
3 August 2011
Action to save our libraries: Planned strike action by Lambeth libraries staff for 22 July was postponed as the council management conceded that there will be no compulsory redundancies, writes Andy Tullis, Lambeth Unison.
25 July 2011
Coastguards campaign to save Swansea coastguard station
Over 200 people packed into Oystermouth primary school, Swansea on Friday evening (22 July) to hear coastguards and local campaigners make the case for saving Swansea coastguard station, writes Dave Warren (PCS South West Wales).
18 July 2011
Stop Swansea coastguard closure
Coastguards and the people of Swansea are reeling following the shock announcement that Swansea coastguard station is to close, with 28 job losses
Wales May Day celebrations, with young TUSC supporter, photo Les Woodward
3 May 2011
A busy May Day bank holiday weekend in south west Wales
Socialist Party members and supporters in south west Wales are exhausted but enthusiastic after the Bank Holiday weekend, writes Alec Thraves, Swansea Socialist Party
27 April 2011
TUSC election challenge: vote socialist to stop the cuts
Round the country: Trade Unionists and Socialists Against Cuts (TUSC) candidates in Bristol are standing in 16 seats across Bristol in the local elections...
27 April 2011
Swansea says: make the fat cats pay!
On Saturday 23 May the Socialist Party in Swansea held a public ballot in the city centre that asked who should be responsible for paying for the financial crisis: banks and big business, or public sector workers such as teachers, nurses, and civil servants?, writes Claire Job, Secretary, Swansea Socialist Party.
Thousands of workers, students and anti-cuts campaigners marched through Cardiff on Saturday 5 March to tell visiting Con Dems we don't accept your cuts, photo Paul Mattsson
7 March 2011
Cardiff march and rally against cuts
Thousands of workers, students and anti-cuts campaigners marched through Cardiff on Saturday 5 March to send a message to the visiting Con Dems - we don't accept your cuts!
3 March 2011
Fighting the cuts: Thousands protest, lobby and occupy
Reports from around the UK: Thousands of people demonstrated against cuts last week, as shown in these reports in this week's issue of the Socialist from Hull, Camden, Lambeth, Haringey, Lewisham, Birmingham, Swansea and Bradford
Remploy workers rally against closure threat in 2007, photo Bob Severn
18 February 2011
Disabled factory workers at Remploy, the government funded manufacturing company, are considering taking strike action to defend their jobs. An edited version of this article appeared in The Socialist newspaper.
Swansea workers protest against cuts and privatisation in Wales, photo Swansea Socialist Party
9 February 2011
Council unions in Swansea make a start against cuts
Hundreds of local authority members of the unions GMB, Ucatt, Unison and Unite attended meetings in Swansea on 8 February.
Bob Crow, RMT general secretary, speaking at the London anti-cuts demonstration jointly called by the NSSN, RMT, NUT, FBU, PCS and other unions, photo Paul Mattsson
4 February 2011
RMT cleaners strike over pay and pensions
Cleaners in the Rail, Maritime and Transport workers' union (RMT) who service First Great Western trains in Cardiff and Swansea are taking 24-hour strike action today (4 February) over a catalogue of failures by their employer...
2 February 2011
Ford challenged in legal bid: Pay the Visteon pensioners now!
On the very day that Ford Motor Company announced huge profits of $6.6 billion after tax, Unite has launched legal action against the car giant in a bid to win back lost pensions for over 3,000 pensioners, writes Rob Williams, Former Unite convenor at Swansea Visteon/Linamar Plant.
15 December 2010
Swansea: Council cuts must be fought
Lib Dem councillors in Swansea, only days after voting to shut Daniel James community school, had the nerve to join students in protesting about the vote on tuition fees, writes There are plans to:.
Ian Pattison addresses 9 December Day X student demo against fee rises
10 December 2010
Day X student demo against fee rises
9th December 2010: what the students said
8 December 2010
30 November: student day of action on cuts and fees
London: Thousands of students marched again on 30 November, to protest as tuition fees were to be debated in parliament...
Newcastle students protest, photo Elaine Brunskill
1 December 2010
We can win: student struggle must escalate
On 24 November 130,000 school, college and university students walked out in the biggest education action for 25 years...
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