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On Burning Homes

For the past few nights we have seen violence in the streets of Belfast for the third successive summer. Houses suspected of being HMOs (Houses in Multiple Occupation) housing migrants were torched, sometimes with families still inside. Cars were lit on fire. Streets were blocked and racist gangs violently attacked people of colour across the…

Rainbow Eurocommunism

On 1 June 2026, the Communist Party of Britain (CPB) released a statement across their various social media pages calling for “LGBT Liberation not Rainbow Capitalism.” In their statement, the party noted the various struggles of the early Pride movement and the oppression and persecution LGBTQ+ activists have faced since the Queer Liberation movement began…

Ymlaen…? On The 2026 Senedd Elections

On the 7th of May, the people of Wales went to the polls for the Senedd elections, utilising a system of proportional representation, which I’m sure we all understand now that the election has happened, right? The result of this election has been deeply historic for Wales.


On Burning Homes

For the past few nights we have seen violence in the streets of Belfast for the third successive summer. Houses suspected of being HMOs (Houses in Multiple Occupation) housing migrants were torched, sometimes with families still inside. Cars were lit on fire. Streets were blocked and racist gangs violently attacked people of colour across the…

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Rainbow Eurocommunism

On 1 June 2026, the Communist Party of Britain (CPB) released a statement across their various social media pages calling for “LGBT Liberation not Rainbow Capitalism.” In their statement, the party noted the various struggles of the early Pride movement and the oppression and persecution LGBTQ+ activists have faced since the Queer Liberation movement began…

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Ymlaen…? On The 2026 Senedd Elections

On the 7th of May, the people of Wales went to the polls for the Senedd elections, utilising a system of proportional representation, which I’m sure we all understand now that the election has happened, right? The result of this election has been deeply historic for Wales.

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Senedd Elections: Winners and Losers

The 2026 Senedd election has come and gone. Most of the parties have, generally speaking, performed about as they should have after the 2025 Caerphilly by-election. Welsh Labour, which has been a political machine without equal in western Europe for over a century, is now relegated to a distant third place behind Reform UK and…

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Sons of Prophecy

Welsh legends tell of a mighty king: a great defender of the innocent, credited with many heroic deeds. He surrounded himself with an honour guard of the finest and most virtuous knights in the kingdom, and made war upon the enemies of the people…

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Together Cymru launch event: report

On the 14th of March 2026, the new Together Alliance held their Cymru launch in Cardiff. This event was advertised as a discussion of “how we stand up in unity against hate in Cymru” and was well attended, with a turnout of well over a hundred people.

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International Mother Language Day

Today is International Mother Language Day, a day promoted by the UN and founded in memory of students martyred in 1952 in East Bengal. The UN homepage for the day describes the strain many languages are under as globalisation pushes indigenous mother languages to the side in education, government and the digital world.

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The Engine

You and three friends are driving down the motorway together when your car breaks down, leaving you stranded on the roadside. It’s really rather urgent that you get wherever you’re going as soon as possible, so everyone starts to panic. One friend suggests…

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No permanent friends, no permanent enemies

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…

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Organise, fight, win – why ACORN is the future of organising in Wales

In 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.

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Proscription Medication

But 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…

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In Defence of Direct Action

In 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

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The Marxist Case for Linguistic Nationalism

Gan 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…

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Dispatches From Occupied Ireland: An Exercise In Forgetting

Dispatch 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…

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Dispatches From Occupied Ireland

Introduction 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…

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Reform (UK) or Revolution

‘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.

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Our Road to Socialism Runs Through Ireland

Gan 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…

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What I Saw

An 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

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Organising with love, ‘The Stute’ and the WUN

On 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…

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Captain Morgan: Live Like A Coloniser

By 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…

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266 – Gresford: a Disaster that Scarred a Community

By 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…

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In Praise of the Welsh Palestine Movement

Never 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…

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