FROM MONDAY 25TH NOVEMBER, WORKERS IN THE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE UNION (UCU) WILL STRIKE FOR 8 DAYS OVER PAY, WORKING CONDITIONS, WORKFORCE CASUALISATION AND PENSIONS. ALMOST HALF OF UK UNIVERSITIES WILL SEE STAFF TAKING STRIKE ACTION, WITH THREE WELSH INSTITUTIONS WALKING OUT. WE SPOKE TO ACADEMICS AT CARDIFF UNIVERSITY ABOUT THE…
IN JULY, VOICE.WALES EDITOR & PHOTOGRAPHER, V MERKOV, WENT BACK TO HER HOME COUNTRY OF GREECE.
WHILST IN ATHENS, SHE HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN DIFFERENT SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AS THE COUNTRY FACES A NEW RIGHT WING GOVERNMENT AND IS STILL REELING FROM THE SOVEREIGN DEBT CRISIS.
HERE, SHE CAPTURES FIRST HAND…
In the spring of 2018, academic workers across the UK took unprecedented strike action to stop their pensions from becoming almost worthless. In the space of just a month, they successfully fought back and exposed a deep crisis in our universities. Now their union is asking its members if they’re…
Hollie lives on the outskirts of a city in South Wales with her two young children. At 37 weeks pregnant, she was forced to move into a house that was ‘disgusting’. Now on universal credit and struggling to survive on £5 a day, she says she doesn’t feel the political…
How a leisure centre in south wales became a battleground for local democracy.
A major campaign to save two leisure centres in the Sirhowy Valley has seen thousands of local people come together to defend their community against devastating cuts. But the battle has also become a flashpoint in the…
ANGER & AUSTERITY IN THE WELSH VALLEYS
Words: SC Cook.
Cymmer - a village deep in the south wales valleys - has paid a heavy price for the huge spending cuts ushered in by the coalition government of 2010. now, people here are fighting for more than just services; this…
By Mark S Redfern. Photo: A home made placard from the Justice for Mouayed march in Newport today. Photo courtesy BLM Cardiff & Vale
MOUAYED BASHIR, A 29-YEAR-OLD SUDANESE MAN FROM NEWPORT, DIED IN HOSPITAL AFTER COMING INTO CONTACT WITH POLICE DURING A RESPONSE CALL TO A MEDICAL EMERGENCY.
PROTESTORS…