International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

Consequences of the local elections 2026

Penelope Duggan — 2026-05-15T13:13:14Z

The combined results of the 7 May elections have thrown the current UK government into turmoil.

- IVP616 - May 2026 / Britain, Scotland, Cymru/Wales

Labour collapses, the far right grows

Simon Hannah — 2026-05-15T12:13:25Z

The elections across much of Britain on 7 May were a devastating blow to the ruling Labour Party who lost 1,229 councillors in England and also came third in the election for the Welsh Sennedd and lost support in the Scottish Parliamentary elections.

- IVP616 - May 2026 / Britain, Scotland, Cymru/Wales

“A Defeat Manufactured in Downing Street”

Geoff Ryan — 2026-05-15T12:12:57Z

Those were the words used by Mick Antoniw, former MS (Member of the Senedd), Counsel General in the Welsh Labour government and a senior member of the Labour Party in Cymru/Wales. He was describing the election on May 7 when Cymru underwent a change of historic proportions.

- IVP616 - May 2026 / Britain, Scotland, Cymru/Wales

Scottish Parliament elections: a balance between continuity and change

Mike Picken — 2026-05-15T12:12:44Z

The Scottish Parliament elections on 7 May produced a balance between continuity and change.

- IVP616 - May 2026 / Britain, Scotland, Cymru/Wales

Meet Chloe: life as a Welsh Trans person in 2025

Nora Rhiannon — 2025-08-26T12:22:38Z

The more I talk with cis people on the left, the more I realise how out of touch they are with the realities faced by the trans community. Whenever the discrimination we face enters conversations, a chorus of voices responds to tell everyone that “the left” needs to “prioritise working class issues” and not be “distracted” from “genuine material concerns”. In the interest of educating cis comrades who've been misled by this framing, today we're going to use a mix of studies, surveys and anecdotal evidence to explore the life of the average trans person in Wales. Let's see how well the picture of trans people as comfortable middle class ideologues holds up to scrutiny…

- IVP607 - August 2025 / LGBT, Cymru/Wales

Yes to Refugees/No to Fascists and Racists

Geoff Ryan — 2023-08-06T10:53:00Z

The ongoing campaigns both in support of and hostility to refugees at the Stradey Park Hotel near Llanelli in Wales - and UK government policy.

- IV583 - August 2023 / Britain, Migration, Anti-racism and Islamophobia, Cymru/Wales

Submission to the independent commission on the constitutional future of Wales

Anti*Capitalist Resistance — 2022-08-21T10:34:43Z

“Without independence governments in Cymru will be unable to enact many laws that will improve the lives of ordinary working people because Westminster will almost certainly reject them if they are inimical to the political views of the governing party while laws developed in Westminster will be imposed on Cymru – as happens today despite devolution.”

- IV571 - August 2022 / Britain, Scotland, National question, Cymru/Wales

Wales since the election

Geoff Ryan — 2021-08-22T07:42:25Z

Wales is the one country within the United Kingdom where there has been a Labour administration over recent years [1]. To many people's surprise, including their own, Labour not only won the Senedd [2] election in May but gained a seat overall.

- IV559 - August 2021 / Britain, Cymru/Wales

Disunited Kingdom

Terry Conway — 2021-05-31T06:49:10Z

“All of this means that for socialists in England the question of deepening our understanding of the national questions in both Scotland and Wales, and in particular fighting for labour movement support for the right to self determination, needs to be pushed much higher up our political agenda.”

- IV556 - May 2021 / Britain, Scotland, England, Cymru/Wales