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            <title>Support the Sparks in Cardiff</title>

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            <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:published>2012-02-21T00:00:00Z</atom:published>

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            <description><![CDATA[Construction electricians in Unite the Union have been fighting seven companies who are trying to break trade-union agreements and impose new contracts that would open the door to dangerous de-skilling of the workplace, undermine health and safety, cut pay by up to 35% and throw a roadblock in front of young trainees looking to qualify as electricians.]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[Construction electricians in Unite the Union have been fighting seven companies who are trying to break trade-union agreements and impose new contracts that would open the door to dangerous de-skilling of the workplace, undermine health and safety, cut pay by up to 35% and throw a roadblock in front of young trainees looking to qualify as electricians.]]></content:encoded>

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            <title>Llanelli Marches to Save Hospital</title>

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            <pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Around 300 trade unionists, health workers, medical professionals and community campaigners marched through Llanelli on 11th February to oppose the proposed closures at Prince Philip Hospital (PPH).]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[Around 300 trade unionists, health workers, medical professionals and community campaigners marched through Llanelli on 11th February to oppose the proposed closures at Prince Philip Hospital (PPH).]]></content:encoded>

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            <title>Llanelli Prince Philip Hospital: Closure Must be Defeated!</title>

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            <pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[The closure of the A &amp; E unit in Llanelli will mean patients having to travel to Carmarthen, Swansea or even Haverfordwest. It will mean journeys of at least 45 minutes to one hour. People will die. A united campaign of all those opposed to health service cuts must be built, involving health trade unions, patients, anticuts groups and health professionals to defend Prince Philip Hospital.]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[The closure of the A &amp; E unit in Llanelli will mean patients having to travel to Carmarthen, Swansea or even Haverfordwest. It will mean journeys of at least 45 minutes to one hour. People will die. A united campaign of all those opposed to health service cuts must be built, involving health trade unions, patients, anticuts groups and health professionals to defend Prince Philip Hospital.]]></content:encoded>

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            <title>PCS Members in HMRC Strike Against Privitasation</title>

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            <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Aound 20,000 PCS members in HMRC are taking strike action against the introduction of the private sector into its contact centres. Union members understand this is the beginning of an agenda of privatisation and potential outsourcing that will ultimately lead to cutting jobs and slashing wages and conditions, as well as a way of taking thousands of HMRC workers out of the civil service pension scheme.]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[Aound 20,000 PCS members in HMRC are taking strike action against the introduction of the private sector into its contact centres. Union members understand this is the beginning of an agenda of privatisation and potential outsourcing that will ultimately lead to cutting jobs and slashing wages and conditions, as well as a way of taking thousands of HMRC workers out of the civil service pension scheme.]]></content:encoded>

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            <title>Stop Closures at Llanelli's Prince Philip Hospital</title>

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            <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:published>2012-01-30T00:00:00Z</atom:published>

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            <description><![CDATA[In Llanelli, the threatened closure of Prince Philip A &amp; E unit will not be accepted without a fight. A march and rally organised by Llanelli Trades Council has been called on the 11th February at 11am gathering at the Town Hall in Llanelli.]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[In Llanelli, the threatened closure of Prince Philip A &amp; E unit will not be accepted without a fight. A march and rally organised by Llanelli Trades Council has been called on the 11th February at 11am gathering at the Town Hall in Llanelli.]]></content:encoded>

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            <title>Reject the Welfare Reform Bill</title>

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            <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:published>2012-01-28T00:00:00Z</atom:published>

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            <description><![CDATA[Tory Iain Duncan Smith's vicious Welfare Reform Bill (WRB), which the government aims to make law by May, will leave thousands destitute. The bill will affect disabled people particularly badly. It is vital the disabled peoples movement builds a bold, energetic campaign against both welfare reform and the public sector cuts. We need to call a national demonstration in opposition to all welfare reform to fight the bill and its consequences.]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[Tory Iain Duncan Smith's vicious Welfare Reform Bill (WRB), which the government aims to make law by May, will leave thousands destitute. The bill will affect disabled people particularly badly. It is vital the disabled peoples movement builds a bold, energetic campaign against both welfare reform and the public sector cuts. We need to call a national demonstration in opposition to all welfare reform to fight the bill and its consequences.]]></content:encoded>

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            <title>NUS Calls National Student Walk-Out</title>

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            <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[The National Union of Students (NUS) has finally announced a series of actions to fight against the sweeping privatisation and cuts threatened to hit our universities if the government get their way. ]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[The National Union of Students (NUS) has finally announced a series of actions to fight against the sweeping privatisation and cuts threatened to hit our universities if the government get their way. ]]></content:encoded>

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            <title>Labour Leadership Approves ConDem Cuts</title>

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            <pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[As well as accepting the government's public spending cuts, Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, now supports the two year public sector pay freeze followed by measly pay increases of 1% until 2015 - in effect a pay cut of one fifth for public sector workers.]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[As well as accepting the government's public spending cuts, Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, now supports the two year public sector pay freeze followed by measly pay increases of 1% until 2015 - in effect a pay cut of one fifth for public sector workers.]]></content:encoded>

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            <title>Analysis: The National Question in Wales</title>

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            <pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:published>2012-01-21T00:00:00Z</atom:published>

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            <description><![CDATA[The following letter is a written in response to a question in 2007 from someone interested in finding out the position of the Socialist Party on the national question in Wales. We reprint it here as a useful outline of the position of Socialist Party Wales on the issues of devolution and independence.]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[The following letter is a written in response to a question in 2007 from someone interested in finding out the position of the Socialist Party on the national question in Wales. We reprint it here as a useful outline of the position of Socialist Party Wales on the issues of devolution and independence.]]></content:encoded>

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            <title>Llanelli Public Meeting: Save Our Hospitals!</title>

            <link>http://www.swanseasocialistparty.org.uk/view/news/2012-01-20/89-llanelli-public-meeting-save-our-hospitals.html</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:published>2012-01-20T00:00:00Z</atom:published>

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            <description><![CDATA[Socialist Party members and anti-cuts campaigners will not stand idly by and see lives put at risk by the threatened closure of Prince Philip Hospitals accident and emergency unit.]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[Socialist Party members and anti-cuts campaigners will not stand idly by and see lives put at risk by the threatened closure of Prince Philip Hospitals accident and emergency unit.]]></content:encoded>

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            <title>UNISON Members Concerned Over Pension Proposals</title>

            <link>http://www.swanseasocialistparty.org.uk/view/news/2012-01-11/88-unison-members-concerned-over-pension-proposals.html</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[UNISON members in Wales have expressed their concern at agreements on pensions reached by the union leaders with the Con Dem government.]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[UNISON members in Wales have expressed their concern at agreements on pensions reached by the union leaders with the Con Dem government.]]></content:encoded>

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            <title>Swansea N30: Striking in our Tens of Thousands</title>

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            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:published>2011-11-30T00:00:00Z</atom:published>

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            <description><![CDATA[Tens of thousands of public sector workers in the Swansea area took strike action today as we gave our verdict on the governments plans to steal our pensions to pay for the crisis in their system  &quot;get your thieving hands off&quot;.]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[Tens of thousands of public sector workers in the Swansea area took strike action today as we gave our verdict on the governments plans to steal our pensions to pay for the crisis in their system  &quot;get your thieving hands off&quot;.]]></content:encoded>

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            <title>Students: Support the Strike!</title>

            <link>http://www.swanseasocialistparty.org.uk/view/news/2011-11-26/85-students-support-the-strike.html</link>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:published>2011-11-26T00:00:00Z</atom:published>

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            <description><![CDATA[First the Con-Dem government brutally attacked education by cutting EMA and raising tuition fees to record levels, and now they are coming for public sector pensions.]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[First the Con-Dem government brutally attacked education by cutting EMA and raising tuition fees to record levels, and now they are coming for public sector pensions.]]></content:encoded>

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            <title>Swansea Trades Council to host N30 Public Rally</title>

            <link>http://www.swanseasocialistparty.org.uk/view/news/2011-11-18/84-swansea-trades-council-to-host-n30-public-rally.html</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:published>2011-11-18T00:00:00Z</atom:published>

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            <description><![CDATA[Up to 3 million workers will be on strike in potentially the biggest single strike day in the history of the UK trade union movement. Now we need to work together to make sure the action we have voted for is a success.]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[Up to 3 million workers will be on strike in potentially the biggest single strike day in the history of the UK trade union movement. Now we need to work together to make sure the action we have voted for is a success.]]></content:encoded>

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            <title>Hardest Hit Cardiff: Tories welcome, but not Remploy Workers!</title>

            <link>http://www.swanseasocialistparty.org.uk/view/news/2011-10-22/83-hardest-hit-cardiff-tories-welcome-but-not-remploy-work.html</link>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:published>2011-10-22T00:00:00Z</atom:published>

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            <description><![CDATA[The turnout of 1,000 at the 'Hardest Hit' march and rally in Cardiff on October 22nd showed both the huge anger developing against the Tories' proposals and potential to build a mass campaign against the attacks on the disabled. Disabled campaigners, trade unionists and the wider anti-cuts movement got a great reception in the city centre as they marched through, chanting &quot;no 'if's, no 'but's, no disability cuts&quot;.]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[The turnout of 1,000 at the 'Hardest Hit' march and rally in Cardiff on October 22nd showed both the huge anger developing against the Tories' proposals and potential to build a mass campaign against the attacks on the disabled. Disabled campaigners, trade unionists and the wider anti-cuts movement got a great reception in the city centre as they marched through, chanting &quot;no 'if's, no 'but's, no disability cuts&quot;.]]></content:encoded>

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            <title>Save Our Jobs, Save Remploy Factories</title>

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            <pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:published>2011-10-19T00:00:00Z</atom:published>

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            <description><![CDATA[On 14 October, over 40 workers from the Remploy factories in Porth, Abertillery and Aberdare attended a public meeting along with 20 of their  supporters to build the campaign to fight the Con-Dem government's closure programme.]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[On 14 October, over 40 workers from the Remploy factories in Porth, Abertillery and Aberdare attended a public meeting along with 20 of their  supporters to build the campaign to fight the Con-Dem government's closure programme.]]></content:encoded>

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            <title>Youth Fight for Jobs: Wales Day of Action</title>

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            <pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:published>2011-10-17T00:00:00Z</atom:published>

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            <description><![CDATA[The same week that youth unemployment hit 991,000, the highest since<br />
records began, Youth Fight for Jobs held an all-Wales day of action in<br />
Swansea on Saturday the 15th.]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[The same week that youth unemployment hit 991,000, the highest since<br />
records began, Youth Fight for Jobs held an all-Wales day of action in<br />
Swansea on Saturday the 15th.]]></content:encoded>

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            <title>Tories attack Jarrow &quot;March for Jobs&quot; as youth unemployment set to fly over 1 million</title>

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            <pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[With youth unemployment set to fly over the 1 million mark when official figures are announced this week, the worst unemployment since the early 90s, the Tories have decided to attack young unemployed people marching to London and following in the tradition of the 1936 Jarrow March.]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[With youth unemployment set to fly over the 1 million mark when official figures are announced this week, the worst unemployment since the early 90s, the Tories have decided to attack young unemployed people marching to London and following in the tradition of the 1936 Jarrow March.]]></content:encoded>

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            <title>Youth Fight for Jobs: Swansea Day of Action</title>

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            <pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:published>2011-10-05T00:00:00Z</atom:published>

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            <description><![CDATA[To coincide with the historic re-creation of the Jarrow jobs march which will take place all month, Youth Fight For Jobs will hold a day of action in South West Wales on Saturday 15th October in Swansea Castle Square.]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[To coincide with the historic re-creation of the Jarrow jobs march which will take place all month, Youth Fight For Jobs will hold a day of action in South West Wales on Saturday 15th October in Swansea Castle Square.]]></content:encoded>

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            <title>Freshers' Week in South West Wales</title>

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            <pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:published>2011-10-01T00:00:00Z</atom:published>

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            <description><![CDATA[Swansea Socialist Students spent Monday to Wednesday this week campaigning in Swansea University during freshers' week. We ran a petition against education cuts and tuition fees and leafleted for our student-focused branch meeting on &quot;Socialism: an Idea that can Change the World&quot;.]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[Swansea Socialist Students spent Monday to Wednesday this week campaigning in Swansea University during freshers' week. We ran a petition against education cuts and tuition fees and leafleted for our student-focused branch meeting on &quot;Socialism: an Idea that can Change the World&quot;.]]></content:encoded>

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