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On the final weekend of August, members of the Socialist Republican movement from across Wales and the Welsh Diaspora came together in Wrexham for two days of discussion, debate and decision-making. This was the second Cyngres of Plaid Gomiwnyddol Cymru (PGC), the fifth Cyngres of the Welsh Underground Network (WUN), and the beginning of a…
On the 20th of this month, the veteran journalist and associate editor of Nation.Cymru, Martin Shipton, published a hit piece on that website against the Welsh Gender Service. This article is an example of the awful reporting and bias in bourgeois and revisionist media against trans men and women
Labour MPs have chosen their candidate to replace Keir Starmer. Senior Labour figures like Angela Rayner, Wes Streeting, Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper and Darren Jones have confirmed they will not be running in the upcoming leadership elections, and Andy Burnham’s coronation date is set.
On the final weekend of August, members of the Socialist Republican movement from across Wales and the Welsh Diaspora came together in Wrexham for two days of discussion, debate and decision-making. This was the second Cyngres of Plaid Gomiwnyddol Cymru (PGC), the fifth Cyngres of the Welsh Underground Network (WUN), and the beginning of a…
Keep readingOn the 20th of this month, the veteran journalist and associate editor of Nation.Cymru, Martin Shipton, published a hit piece on that website against the Welsh Gender Service. This article is an example of the awful reporting and bias in bourgeois and revisionist media against trans men and women
Keep readingLabour MPs have chosen their candidate to replace Keir Starmer. Senior Labour figures like Angela Rayner, Wes Streeting, Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper and Darren Jones have confirmed they will not be running in the upcoming leadership elections, and Andy Burnham’s coronation date is set.
Keep readingFor 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…
Keep readingOn 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…
Keep readingOn 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.
Keep readingThe 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…
Keep readingWelsh 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…
Keep readingOn 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.
Keep readingToday 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.
Keep readingYou 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…
Keep readingA 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…
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