LUKE FLETCHER fleshes out Plaid Cymru's plan for the revitalisation of Wales's economy

After Joe Biden’s cynical last-minute clemency for Cuba, the new administration has quickly returned to maximum subversive tactics. This socialist island needs our support now more than ever, writes LUKE FLETCHER MS

The Welsh government is shying away from the obvious answer to a spiralling rental market and increased housing precarity – well-designed and implemented rent controls, writes LUKE FLETCHER

LUKE FLETCHER is concerned by the vagueness of Great British Energy's promised benefits to communities in Wales

The first Budget of the Labour government falls far short of addressing Wales’s needs, maintaining austerity-era policies while providing inadequate funding for critical services and infrastructure, writes LUKE FLETCHER MS

The government’s quick-fix solution to prison overcrowding is backfiring spectacularly, writes LUKE FLETCHER MS

Labour is abandoning Port Talbot workers and pursuing more austerity — but Wales has an alternative path, one committed to economic justice and sustainability in the face of rising energy bills, writes LUKE FLETCHER MS

As Labour celebrates, the new PM should face immediate pressure to deliver on his steel promises here in Wales — nationalisation and worker ownership must be on the table too, argues LUKE FLETCHER MS

As the Starmer regime parachutes in disconnected candidates and offers little more than hot air, Plaid Cymru is mounting a real challenge to the decades of decay and decline forced on us by Westminster, writes LUKE FLETCHER MS

…these are the choices facing UK and Welsh governments in the fight to save Welsh steel, writes LUKE FLETCHER MS

Research at the highest level has shown firefighters are exposed to cancer-causing agents in the line of duty — but unlike many other countries we are not taking necessary steps to address this, writes LUKE FLETCHER MS

The Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Welsh Language inherits significant challenges from his predecessor — Wales needs new approaches and solutions to the longstanding challenges it faces, writes LUKE FLETCHER MS

Apprenticeships have been hailed as a pathway to skill development, economic development and a promising bridge between education and quality jobs — their future must be secured, writes LUKE FLETCHER MS

Ownership will be the deciding factor of the Welsh steel industry’s future, and that ownership must reside with the state, and eventually the people, if it is to flourish. We must urgently renationalise steel to this end, writes LUKE FLETCHER MS

LUKE FLETCHER MS explains why Plaid Cymru extended solidarity to the embattled socialist island nation during the Welsh party's annual conference

Support for worker co-operatives, employee buyouts and other forms of worker ownership has been left wanting — we need a swift shift in the scale of our ambition, writes LUKE FLETCHER MS

Gloomy prognoses concerning Wales’s challenges can be confronted if we move away from our fixation with the GDP, and look at the lives of normal people, writes LUKE FLETCHER MS

Starmer’s refusal to scrap the two-child benefit cap is the latest reminder that child poverty is a bipartisan issue for Westminster’s governing duopoly, argues Plaid Cymru economy spokesperson LUKE FLETCHER MS

Economic productivity is an age-old problem in Wales – it will continue to be so unless we offer genuine and sustainable solutions to the big economic questions, argues Plaid Cymru economy spokesperson LUKE FLETCHER MS

Our class origin casts a long shadow over our lives — one of the areas in which this manifests is through the existence of occupational sorting and the class pay gap, writes LUKE FLETCHER MS

Despite common conceptions of Wales as a nation founded on communitarian values, it has the fewest statutory community rights in Britain, writes LUKE FLETCHER MS

With the aspirations of socialists among the Labour left in Wales frustrated, what other avenues to radical transformation are there, asks LUKE FLETCHER MS

The devolution of employment law to Wales would help prevent Tory Westminster from running roughshod over workers in Wales, argues Plaid Cymru economy spokesperson LUKE FLETCHER MS