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28 October 2009
Feature: ON 4 November 1839, 170 years ago, the 'Chartist Rising' in Newport, south Wales, ended in bloodshed. DAVE REID explains the background to one of the first workers' insurrections in history.
7 October 2009
North Wales shop stewards network
On 29 September, trade union reps and activists from across North Wales gathered in Wrexham to found a North Wales Shop Stewards Network, writes Iain Dalton, Bangor.
9 September 2009
Inaugural meeting to establish a North Wales branch of the National Shop Stewards Network
National Shop Stewards Network - North Wales
7.30pm Tuesday 29 September 2009
The Railway Club, Wrexham
8 July 2009
South West Wales Media: Fight for jobs, defend conditions
Union members at South West Wales Media - the parent company of the Evening Post, Llanelli Star and Carmarthen Journal newspapers - are considering taking action in response to a management restructuring plan that will see jobs axed, workload increased by 25%, and shift times for some staff substant, writes An NUJ member.
Rob Williams addresses Linamar workers at a rally in support of him, photo Sarah Mayo
17 June 2009
Victory at Linamar! Rob Williams reinstated
ROB WILLIAMS, the Unite trade union convenor at the Linamar car components factory in Swansea, Wales, has won a stunning victory in his fight for reinstatement...
17 June 2009
Billy Bragg's Miners' Strike Tour
UNDER THE South Wales area National Union of Mineworkers' banner with the words "Forward to a Socialist Britain and World Peace", singer Billy Bragg treated us to a great concert in Caernarfon on 11 June, writes Jan Underwood, Bangor Socialist Party.
Workers strike at South Hook construction site near Milford Haven, Wales , photo Dave Reid
27 May 2009
Construction workers: battle won but war not over
Construction workers at the South Hook LNG (Liquified Natural Gas) terminal construction site near Milford Haven in South Wales have won a big victory over employers by taking unofficial action in defiance of anti-union laws, writes Dave Reid, Socialist Party Wales.
27 May 2009
Wales TUC conference - no good news for New Labour
The Wales TUC annual conference, from 19- 21 May demonstrated, as in previous years, the failure of New Labour in government to win the support of ordinary trade unionists across Wales, writes Andrew Price, delegate, Cardiff trades council.
Lobby of Unite London headquarters over the sacking of Rob Williams, Linamar convenor, photo Alison Hill
20 May 2009
Defending trade union rights: On 13 May, Swansea trades council and the Linamar shop stewards' committee, held a marvellous meeting in support of sacked Linamar convenor Rob Williams, writes Dave Reid, Socialist Party Wales.
20 May 2009
Welsh-speaking worker bullied by boss
The front page of the North Wales Daily Post on May Day splashed a story of a worker at the Holyhead Morrisons store who had felt compelled to quit his job after being told not to speak Welsh, a Bangor Socialist Party member writes.
Thatcher was defeated on the issue of the poll tax, photo Militant
13 May 2009
Despite being "too young to remember the anti-poll tax battle", Bob Severn (The Socialist issue 578) rightly criticises the middle-class editors of a middle-class paper, the Independent, writes Rob Windsor, Socialist councillor and former anti-poll tax federation secretary, Coventry.
13 May 2009
Wales TUC: For trade union democracy and for trade union rights!
This year's Wales TUC, meeting in Llandudno from 19-21 May, looks likely to be the last annual gathering of the conference, writes Alec Thraves, Swansea trades council delegate.
6 May 2009
Keep fighting for further education funding
Wales: Unison and other campus unions in Gorseinon college Swansea are once again having to campaign against the effects of funding cuts, writes Ronnie Job, Unison rep Gorseinon college, personal capacity.
22 April 2009
Wales FE funding: Victory, but keep the champagne on ice
The Welsh Assembly has performed a partial u-turn on Further Education (FE) funding in Wales, coming up with an additional £8.93 million in an announcement on 15 April, writes Ron Job, Unison steward Gorseinon college, personal capacity.
Mad Axe Woman Thatcher. Cartoon by Alan Hardman
17 April 2009
Thatcher's legacy: Brutal class warfare against the rights and the conditions of the working class
As the 30th anniversary of the coming to power of Margaret Thatcher – the most hated figure in Britain post-1945 – in May 1979 approaches, her record has been put under the media microscope, writes Peter Taaffe, in the forthcoming Socialism Today.
8 April 2009
No cuts to further education in Wales!
On 1 April, around five hundred students, lecturers and other further education (FE) college staff from across Wales protested and lobbied Welsh Assembly members over threatened redundancies and cuts to funding, pay and conditions, writes Alec Thraves.
25 March 2009
Wales: United battle needed to stop college cuts
Monday morning and the staff of our college gather to hear the principal explain that management will be seeking to identify £800,000 of savings by the end of the academic year (July), writes Ronnie Job, Unison steward, Gorseinon college, personal capacity.
11 March 2009
Trade union members of Unison and UCU at Neath/Port Talbot college staged a protest outside the main gate on 4 March to highlight the damage that will be caused by the Welsh Assembly's £1.6 million cut in its budget, writes Alec Thraves.
4 March 2009
Workers at the Sogefi car filter plant in South Wales have had enough. At a mass meeting of 300 out of the 400 in the plant on 14 February, they brushed aside calls for calm, called from the floor for...
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