Our policies are shaped via open workshops, where participants bring research, perspectives and ideas together to shape what we think are the key issues facing the working class in Wales and internationally. These are shaped through open-democracy, and collective writing.
What Are Our Workshops?
Our workshops are open sessions where a paper is presented covering key facts regarding a certain issue, such as climate change, education, healthcare, and more. A debate is held, where participants raise thoughts, point out shortcomings of the proposed discussion, and consensus is found through democratic decisions on each suggested policy.
‘Climate Change & Cymru’
This paper focuses on the international climate disaster which is unfolding, and the context which we exist in, here in Cymru. The demands which unfold from this looks at; the duties of the Welsh Government, the need to have a community driven solution around energy ownership & production, and the need to support protest action and resist anti-protest laws.
‘The Land & Housing Question’
This paper focuses on the housing crisis and the use of land within Cymru. The demands which unfold from this looks at; assessing all empty properties, homes and commercial, to be turned into housing, ending the bedroom tax, tax premiums on second & empty homes, and supporting the work of the tenant union ACORN.
‘Production For People’
This paper focuses on the way that austerity has impacted Cymru, and how the capitalist crisis of 2007-09 is felt today. The demands of this paper contain the rolling back of privatisation, re-nationalisation of essential basic services with democratic control by the public, and the creation of a ‘first right’ of workers to take over a business being closed.
‘Building A Fairer Future’
This paper examines poverty in Cymru – recognising the over-representation of poverty in Cymru, compared to the rest of Britain. The paper puts forwards demands such as the legal right to a house and to work, for those who can, legally ensuring that pay cannot fall below inflation, and the devolution of all benefit provision to Cymru.
‘Winning Power’
This paper examines the incredibly important topic of how we achieve our aims, how we fight for this social transformation. The paper puts forward the necessity to combat sectarianism in the left, for the Senedd to be a bastion of democracy and rights in the face of Unionist authoritarianism, and the deepening of democracy at the Senedd and in the workplace.
‘Socialist Pedagogy’
This looks at pedagogy, or how we teach, in Cymru, and the issues facing education today. The paper demands an end to the cuts in education across all levels, the extension of free education to all ages, at all levels, and enshrining the right to an education ym Gymraeg across Cymru.
‘Patients Before Profits’
This paper looks at the crisis facing healthcare, with deep cuts and a lack of funding, to the threat of an insurance based system that will only impoverish the working class more. The paper demands that Senedd Members (MSs) refuse to approve any budget which cuts the NHS, the abolition of privatisation which has already begun, and prioritising support and intervention to lower hospital wait times.
‘Independence & Class’
This policy paper looks at the question of class & how it interacts with independence, the idea of ‘who benefits’ when it comes to Welsh independence. This was structured differently to the other policy papers, and delved into concepts such as if there even is a ‘Welsh’ capitalist class, or is a British one? If Wales became independent, why would the capitalists support or want such a thing?
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