Wales manifesto launch

SOCIALIST PARTY Wales launched its election manifesto for the Wales assembly outside Cardiff Royal Infirmary.

Its candidates in the South Wales West and South Wales Central regions are standing as Socialist Alternative - Defend our Health Service.

The BBC reported that while the main political parties are "discovering" the NHS crisis in the run-up to the election, Socialist Party Wales has been campaigning consistently on it for years.

The BBC report included the Socialist Party's demands for the NHS to be rebuilt, free at the point of use, and under democratic control. It also covered a number of our other demands, such as our call for a minimum wage of Ł8 an hour, a 35-hour week and a massive public spending increase on health, housing, education, childcare, leisure and community facilities.

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The coronavirus crisis has laid bare the class character of society in numerous ways. It is making clear to many that it is the working class that keeps society running, not the CEOs of major corporations.

The results of austerity have been graphically demonstrated as public services strain to cope with the crisis.

The government has now ripped up its 'austerity' mantra and turned to policies that not long ago were denounced as socialist. But after the corona crisis, it will try to make the working class pay for it, by trying to claw back what has been given.

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