COMMUNISTS 'PLEASED' WITH LOCAL ELECTION IMPACT
Monday 07. May 2012
'Welsh Communists are pleased with our impact on these local elections', the party's secretary in Wales, Rick Newnham, declared on Friday, May 4.
'In all eight wards where they stood in Merthyr Tydfil, Cardiff and Torfaen, Communist Party candidates raised vital questions about jobs, public services, housing and the environment', he pointed out, 'even though the other parties preferred to focus on litter, dog mess and the alleged misconduct of rival candidates'. (FULL RESULTS & PERCENTAGES DETAILED BELOW)
VOTE COMMUNIST ON MAY 3
Wednesday 02. May 2012
The Welsh Communist Party is fielding eight candidates in this Thursday's Welsh local elections in: Cardiff (Adamsdown, Grangetown, Pentwyn, and Splott); Merthyr Tydfil (Town, Vaynor and Bedlinog) and Torfaen (Blaenavon). This is your opportunity to vote for a real alternative. Printed below is an abridged report, carried in the Western Mail, on the Party's manifesto launch.
The Welsh Communists are about more than litter, dog mess and pot holes, its candidates declared when they launched their local election manifesto, in Cardiff, with a central message that public investment is needed instead of cuts.
Communists launch May 3 manifesto
Friday 13. April 2012
Welsh Communists contesting eight seats in Cardiff, Merthyr Tydfil and Blaenafon launched their 24-page manifesto yesterday under the banner Real Power for the People and Communities of Wales.
Communist Party general secretary Robert Griffiths joined other party officials and candidates at a media conference in Cardiff, answering questions and interviews in English and Welsh.
COMMUNISTS PLEDGE TO FIGHT FOR PUBLIC SERVICES AND JOBS
Thursday 12. April 2012
'No to Cuts! Tax the Rich!' will be the campaigning theme of Welsh Communists in the forthcoming local elections.
The party will be contesting eight wards in Cardiff, Merthyr Tydfil and Blaenafon on May 3, on a platform of total opposition to cuts in public services and jobs and the party's manifesto Real Power for the People and Communities of Wales will be launched at a media conference in Cardiff on Friday, April 13 (details and statement below).
WELSH COMMUNISTS ELECTION CANDIDATES PROFILED
Tuesday 10. April 2012
The Welsh Communist Party confirmed today (10.4.12) that it would be contesting eight council seats in three Councils.
A summary profile of each candidate is detailed below and the Party will be launching its 2012 election campaign in the Cayo Arms, Cathedral Road, Cardiff at 10.30am this Friday 13th April.
UNITY TO THE FORE
Saturday 31. March 2012
Welsh Communist's Arthur Horner reports from the Morning Star's Bishopsgate conference 'For A People's Britain, Not a Bankers' Britain'.
London’s Bishopsgate was crowded this Saturday (31.3.12) an hour before official starting time for the best-attended Morning Star conference in many a long year. In the end, over 250 people crowded in to hear from an array of almost thirty Left political figures, trade unionists, and campaigners. By any standards, this was a marvellous success. Yet, this was no mere vanity project.
LOOK BEYOND THE BLAME GAME
Monday 19. March 2012
The Welsh media enjoyed the role last week of proving that the witless Welsh administrators - or all of us -are so poor at arranging our affairs that Wales lies low again in socio-economic league tables.
The average GDP per head statistics showed West Wales and the Valleys as "poorer than Romania."
WELSH COMMUNISTS WELCOME PLAID CYMRU'S NEW LEADER
Thursday 15. March 2012
Welsh Communist Party secretary Rick Newnham has welcomed the election of Leanne Wood as the new leader of Plaid Cymru today (Thursday, March 15).
'One of the major political parties will now be headed by someone committed to social justice, peace and the environment', Mr Newnham declared, praising Ms Wood's 'outstanding record' as a campaigning activist.
WELSH COMMUNISTS SET FOR MAJOR LOCAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN
Monday 12. March 2012
The Welsh Communist Party’s Executive Committee hailed the excellent response to its recent call for candidates to come forward to stand in this year’s council elections.
To date, the Executive Committee has approved 10 candidates: 4 to contest seats in Cardiff; 3 in Merthyr Tydfil; 1 in Torfaen; 1 in Swansea; 1 in Flintshire.
They Plaid to win, but who'll get the top job?
Sunday 11. March 2012
Plaid Cymru's new leader will be announced on March 15, bringing to an end a campaign which has, unofficially at least, lasted 10 months since Ieuan Wyn Jones stood down after last May's Welsh Assembly elections.
The party has been enjoying an intriguing contest with a recruitment drive increasing party membership by 23 per cent in the four months to the cut-off date of late January, taking numbers up to 7,863.
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