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18 October 2017
Powerful picture of the Port Talbot steel workers' struggle
Theatre: We're Still Here: Under the threat of closure, the steel workers - but not the pensioners - were forced to vote for one of two options, either of which meant a cut in pensions. 'We're Still Here' dramatises the effect of this threat on the workers.
28 September 2017
ThyssenKrupp - Tata steel merger
There is still massive uncertainty over the future of the Port Talbot plant and others
17 February 2017
Tata pension deal: 'Gun to the head' offer accepted
Tata steelworkers reluctantly accepted an inferior pension scheme
24 January 2017
Steely opposition growing to Tata pension offer
Steelworkers in Tata plants across the UK will be voting on a potential agreement
9 December 2016
Nationalise Tata Steel to save jobs and pensions
Tata Steel and steel union leaders have announced an agreement. However, it comes with a poisonous sting in the tail.
27 April 2016
Welsh Assembly elections: A working class voice to say 'save our steel!'
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) challenge in the Welsh Assembly elections on 5 May has centred on the campaign to save Welsh steel. TUSC has campaigned for the immediate nationalisation of the industry, which is supported by a large majority.
22 April 2016
Tata steel crisis: 100% nationalisation now!
The government saying it could take a 25% stake in a Tata Steel buyout has understandably raised the hopes of steel workers and their communities
20 April 2016
"After Labour bailed out the bankers, are the Tories to be remembered as the party that let our steel industry die?" said the rabid right-wing, pro-Tory Daily Mail
20 April 2016
Clock ticking on UK steel: it's time to act!
If Tata can't find a buyer it will sack 15,000 workers. Three times as many support workers will also lose their jobs. Reports have surfaced that the company will set 28 May as the deadline date, meaning workers have just over a month to save their jobs and communities.
13 April 2016
Nationalise to save all Steel jobs
Tata Steel's UK assets are officially up for sale. Vulture capitalists are eyeing up any profitable pickings while willing to throw workers on the dole
6 April 2016
Workers' action to: Nationalise Steel
March, strike, occupy: 15,000 steel jobs are on the line, but the call to nationalise Tata is growing louder and the political pressure on Cameron to act is building! On 2 April hundreds demonstrated in Port Talbot, organised by the NSSN
6 April 2016
Bosses' and union tops' "agenda of misery"
Steel crisis: I was a steelworker for almost 40 years. Skilled jobs, when they are gone are gone. I feel like I've jumped out of the frying pan into the fire.
4 April 2016
NSSN protest demands Nationalise Tata
Hundreds marched through Port Talbot on Saturday 2nd April in a protest called by the National Shop Stewards Network to demand the nationalisation of Tata Steel
30 March 2016
According to some commentators, the multinational Tata Group has a reputation of being a paternalistic and caring corporation that takes into consideration the wellbeing of its workforce, writes Alec Thraves
30 March 2016
Short reports on some of the latest trade union struggles.
24 February 2016
Socialist Party Wales and North West conferences
Socialist Party regional conferences in the North West and Wales discuss last year's tumultuous events and look ahead to the year to come.
11 February 2016
Public meetings show readiness to fight back
Dozens of activists attended three meetings
3 February 2016
FT dispute: Journalists at the Financial Times will be taking 24-hour strike action on 4 February over the £4 million pensions robbery proposed by new owner, Nikkei
27 January 2016
Short reports on some of the latest trade union struggles. Victimised RMT rep defended; anti-cuts protest in Brighton; NSSN to hold Port Talbot steel solidarity meeting.
18 January 2016
Nationalise Tata to save steel jobs!
Wales is now feeling the wind of the ongoing butchering of jobs from Tata Steel UK
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