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A report on the recent Wales Trade Union Conference in Cardiff. Gan Nora Rhiannon On Saturday 18th of October, trade unionists from across South Wales met in Cardiff to discuss the “crisis of political representation”. This is a timely conversation, given our situation. Since the General Election in June 2024 the Labour Party has begun…
At a rooftop cafe in Cardiff, Yahya joined a birthday celebration and launch party for his new book of poetry, ‘My Voice Cannot Be Bombed’. The crowd sang happy birthday in Arabic, Welsh and English, and he spoke about his poetry, all he wants to do when he survives this genocide…
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…
A report on the recent Wales Trade Union Conference in Cardiff. Gan Nora Rhiannon On Saturday 18th of October, trade unionists from across South Wales met in Cardiff to discuss the “crisis of political representation”. This is a timely conversation, given our situation. Since the General Election in June 2024 the Labour Party has begun…
Keep readingAt a rooftop cafe in Cardiff, Yahya joined a birthday celebration and launch party for his new book of poetry, ‘My Voice Cannot Be Bombed’. The crowd sang happy birthday in Arabic, Welsh and English, and he spoke about his poetry, all he wants to do when he survives this genocide…
Keep readingThe 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…
Keep readingIn my three years with ACORN Cardiff I calculate that we’ve gotten £3,240 worth of fees cancelled and an estimated £1,900 in deposits & rent returned for our members. We’ve saved a Community Café from a 50% rent increase, secured housing repairs for around twelve tenants and protected three families from eviction.
Keep readingBut never has violence been the agenda, I know this because I worked with PA four years ago to shut down a factory in my home town with our own rooftop occupation. The company, Solvay, manufactures parts for Hermes drones and F35 jets used by the IDF. I couldn’t stand to see my home be…
Keep readingIn February of this year, myself and two comrades took action against Pearson Engineering, a site which produces armoured vehicles and military intelligence equipment on behalf of Rafael Defence Systems, an Israeli state owned weapons company
Keep readingThe reason for bringing up the PRI in a piece about Welsh Labour is that there is one immutable fact that in every single year the ‘perfect dictatorship’ was dominant in Mexico, Labour has been dominant in Wales.
Keep readingGan Owain ab Owain Part of our Darlleniadau Hir (Long Reads) series In contemporary liberal discourse on the nation the notion of ‘civic nationalism’ predominates. This conception holds that nationality is a product of affinity; that loyalty to the fundamental principles on which the nation-state has been formed is all that is required to be…
Keep readingReport, Hedd Goch, Y Seren Goch Yesterday, socialists from across the left in Wales gathered to debate and vote on the progress made by the ‘Cymru Radical Left Dialogue’ – an open network of socialists who have been crafting progressive policies to campaign on for the 2026 Senedd Elections. This conference was called after an…
Keep readingThe evening I arrived, we walked through part of North West Belfast. Despite an understanding of the role of the British state in the six counties I was struck by the cold blatancy of the fact that the land I was standing on was under occupation.
Keep readingDispatch 1. Gan Ciaran “The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. And just as they seem to be occupied with revolutionizing themselves and things, creating something that did not exist before, precisely in such epochs of revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the…
Keep readingIntroduction Gan Owain Ab Owain At the end of January 2025, members of Plaid Gomiwnyddol Cymru travelled to Ireland to undertake political education and to represent the party at the Bloody Sunday March for Justice in Derry. While the primary aim of the trip was to show solidarity with our comrades in struggle in Ireland…
Keep readingOur recent delegation to Ireland opened our eyes to many things […] One thing impressed upon me was how the women who fought in the Easter Rising were remembered, one in particular stayed with me – Winifred Carney, ‘the typist with the Webley’ as she is now known.
Keep reading‘The left’ is often told to swallow their principles and vote for a ‘lesser evil’. In fact, many on the left will campaign for whichever establishment party isn’t on the right.
Keep readingGan Owain Ab Owain A few months ago Y Seren Goch published a piece titled ‘Who Fears to Speak of Ireland’ which laid out an argument to suggest that the broader British communist movement, with notable exception, had neglected the discussion of Ireland and were all-the-poorer for it. This piece received several thought-provoking responses from…
Keep readingAn account of an eviction by someone who was there trying to stop it, and a desperate call for people to join us in our struggle against landlords
Keep readingOn developing and maintaining long term community action Gan Y Golygydd YSG The Cefn Fforest Miners’ Institute, or ‘The Stute’, was a hall built from the wages of the working class, by the hands of the working class, and owned by the working class – by the trade union. It was opened in 1932, as…
Keep readingRhagfarn POL o genedlaetholdeb Cymreig – gan Remi o Welsh Underground Network Yn saesneg, yn wreiddiol yma: https://welshundergroundnetwork.com/2023/03/22/welsh-nationalism-cenedlaetholdeb-cymreig/ Beth ydy Cenedlaetholdeb Cymreig? Genedlaetholdeb ydy dweud yn alm ydy’r credu’na genedl yr un ydy gwycha na gilydd, a dod ymlaen y meddwl o’r cenedl ‘na i’r waetha o genedl gilydd. Hyn ydy wedi gweld yn y…
Keep readingBy Gruff In 1674 Captain Harri Morgan was released from house arrest in London. He had been held for two years while the royal court examined his eleven years at sea. A career which had seen Panama City, the most populous in the Spanish Empire, burned to the ground alongside multiple massacres and the enthusiastic…
Keep readingMeddwyl am siarad ac ysgrifennu yn Gymraeg pryd a ble dyn ni’n gallwn – llythyr oddi wrth y golygydd.
Keep readingBy Morfil Mawr Gresford It’s a name almost synonymous with tragedy, while not quite as known perhaps as the likes of Aberfan or Tryweryn, it has had a surge of interest recently due to an episode of Welcome to Wrexham, as well as it being the 90th anniversary of the disaster. To most, it’s just…
Keep readingNever am I more proud of my home than when I see the Welsh and Palestinian flags flying together. In the past year, comrades of all backgrounds, races and religions have united under these twin banners into a powerful movement for peace and justice. We have brought the Intifada to Welsh towns, Welsh cities, Welsh…
Keep readingHedd – Ysgrifennydd Cyffredinol “In Merthyr Tydfil in 1831, the prehistory of the Welsh working class comes to an end. Its history begins.” Gwyn Alf Williams There is no better place in Wales for Plaid Gomiwnyddol Cymru to hold our 1st Cyngrys, one year after our formation, three months into our public existence, than Merthyr…
Keep readingOn the 9th of September, 2019, the Welsh Underground Network (WUN) was ‘born’ – sort of! In fact, it was the predecessor of the Welsh Underground Network that was created, Valleys Underground, a Socialist community action group who sought to take power into their own hands and actively change the local community, no permission needed…
Keep readingOur comrades in Cornwall share a similar language root to us here in Wales, and we are proud to share their work to a Welsh audience. […] Kernewek, the Cornish national language, suffers in a similar way that all minoritised languages suffer when they live in the economic periphery.
Keep readingWho are we? We are a multimedia publisher which will look at the issues facing Wales, pick apart why Wales suffers so badly under the capitalist British state, and clearly articulate why we need a Socialist Republic of Wales.
Keep readingAn article reposted from Forward, the Connolly Youth Movement’s paper Introduction from Y Seren Goch Today marks the beginning of the National Eisteddfod, the largest poetry and art festival in Europe, which cherishes the Welsh language and bardic culture. We wanted to raise the question of how best do we fight for the Welsh language?…
Keep readingValleys Underground took the opportunity to make something happen and uploaded the entirety of ‘The Dragon Has Two Tongues’ onto their website; a groundbreaking show from 1985 that pits the formidable Marxist historian Gwyn Alf Williams against the liberal historian Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, in a battle for not just Welsh history, but a battle for history…
Keep readingMany people have woken up this morning and looked at the result with a mixture of feelings, a landslide victory for Labour, but with one of the worst turnouts of this century and a low Labour vote share. The rise of Reform is also deeply worrying, but to many people unsurprising – as we will…
Keep readingThis week saw the release of our first pamphlet – ‘Only Socialism Will Liberate Wales’. What do we mean by this? Why have we written this? What do we hope to achieve?
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