ANDREW MURRAY surveys a quaking continent whose leaders have no idea how to respond to an openly contemptuous United States
Wales TUC Congress 2022 – a communist perspective
However much working-class advance may be improved by policy and legislative changes, it is only militant trade union action that will secure maximum benefits for working people, argues LAURA PICAND
Based on his experience of Haringey Council Councillor MARK BLAKE believes only a radical policy rethink will reconnect councils with the alienated constituencies they are supposed to serve
Last week the CPUSA launched a new Rapid Response project aimed at mobilising a popular resistance to policies enacted by the new government. CAMERON HARRISON explains
THE agenda for this year’s Wales TUC is very aptly titled “Unions Winning for Workers.”
A union-hostile government at Westminster, mired in scandals, increasing inflation (the worst in Europe), war in Ukraine and the tipping point for global warming almost reached, point to a difficult future for working people.
As far as Wales is concerned, the economic contest is important. Welsh weekly earnings remain the lowest of all the nations and regions of Britain, having fallen to 89 per cent of the UK in 2018.
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DIC PENDERYN reports on the Communist Party’s Wales congress, where delegates debated plans for a radical manifesto and broad alliance to challenge Reform UK at the polls and make a clear break with Starmer and Westminster
Calls for public ownership, an industrial strategy driven by the unions and extending devolution to encompass workers’ rights and protect us from Westminster are growing at this week’s conference, writes DAI MORGAN
