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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
The Welsh Communist Party calls for trade unions to deliver maximum support for the TUC Cost of Living national rally on Saturday June 18.
Following the resignation of Nepali Prime Minister KP Oli amid mass youth-driven protests, different narratives have circulated which simplify and misrepresent the complexities and reality on the ground in Nepal at the roots of this crisis, argue VIJAY PRASHAD and ATUL CHANDRA
The US is desperate to stop Honduras’s process of social and democratic change, writes TIM YOUNG
But the beneath the racism and misogyny of the far right lies a shared grievance with the left — Starmer’s complete betrayal of working people, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Climate justice and workers’ rights movements are uniting to make the rich pay for our transition to a green economy, writes assistant general secretary of PCS JOHN MOLONEY, ahead of a major demonstration on September 20
Lucy Powell may not exactly be the left’s choice, but her bid for the deputy leadership is certainly not the Labour right’s choice — and if she wins, that could mean the ascendancy of Andy Burnham and the end of Keir Starmer, writes VINCE MILLS
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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It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
Delegates gathered to confront a broad range of issues from declining membership and a rising far-right threat to devolution and fighting union-busting giants like Amazon, reports GARETH LOWE
In order to defeat the far right, the left must set out a positive alternative – one that effectively addresses working people’s concerns, argues DAVID MORGAN
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