A Welsh Radical PLatform: containing information on history of peoples popular and radical political struggles in Wales, verity of articles with similar themes plus promoting peoples history projects to persue. Not least,radical initiatives for those with an interest in persueing more of an Adfywiad Goch Cymru than a patriotic or republican resurgence.
To Mark 25th Anniversary of 'When Was Wales' and the 'Dragon Has Two Tounges' Michael Ryan and Colin Thomas will show excerpts from the programmes and will lead a discussion on the impact of Gwyn's work.
A Free Event - All Welcome.
I am not going to make above event unfortunatly but maybe someone could during the discussion suggest/propose that in Gwyn's memory this event becomes an annual Weekend Workers Remembrancers College with lectures, seminars and workshops all with purpose of preparing future 'Red Remembrancers' to carry on Gwyn's labours for Wales and our Workers, People, Communities and Country as well as International Solidarity. Work carried out as much in the work place and community as places of Academia.
31 Oct 2010 ...ADFYWIAD GOCH CYMRU. Red Resurgence Cymru advocates and promotes Socialist Agit - Prop Action: Campaigns and Struggles in Wales in support ...
Where Once Wales and Socialists in Wales would once upon a time lead in struggle against Tyranny, Oppression and Exploitation, in this year of the 100th Anniversary of the Tonypandy Riots of 1910 we are more likly to see Wales organising dramatisations and musicals of the past than organising present day real radical resistence to the Tory War on Wales!
30 Jul 2010 ... The project closes with a final performance of Golau'r Epynt - Brecknock YFC's all-Wales winning drama - at Theatr Brycheiniog (October ... www.brecknockyfc.co.uk/cofior-epynt-remembering-epynt/ - Cached
This Welsh language drama, which will be performed by Cwmni Troedyrhiw, records the destruction of the Welsh speaking community of the Epynt Mountain 70 ... www.cymdeithasycymod.org.uk/press.htm - Cached - Similar
Interesting stuff, whilst the Cultural Nationalist Pacifists and 'Left of Left' in Wales gets all hot under the collar about the now dumped St Athan Military Academy, the celebration of a previoius episode of English Military Occupation is motivated to grab a grant to organise a walk and some theatre. How wonderful, I do not entirely oppose but I suspect that Native Americans and other 'Indigenous Peoples' would have gone and first and foremost occupied, if only in symbolic protest the existing 'Military Village' on Epynt, why not? Further to this, this month we have Theatre/Musical representation of the Newport Rising 1839, Tonypandy Riots 1910 and next year same is very much planned for the commemoration of the Llanelli Riots 1911 all with a lot of associated historical presentations and representations, see link below:
COFIWN GOCH 3: REMEMBERING THE PAST: THE NEWPORT RISING 1839 and TONYPANDY ....COFIWN GOCH 2: LEADERS, WORKERS HISTORY and FIGHTERS FOR FREEDOM IN THE ... cofiwn.blogspot.com/ - Cached - Similar
The Llanelli Rail Strike Commemoration Committee together with support from the ...strike itself are to be commemorated on the centenary August 2011. ... were shot down by soldiers at Llanelli during the Railway Strike Riots of 1911. ... www.llanellitown.com/whats-on.../1911-railway-strike-festivities - Cached
Great Stuff and needed, but! but! but! I am reminded what Gwyn Alf Williams had to say about post Industrial Wales becoming one great post Industrial theme park. He was very disparaging of all this but it seems inevitable that our not too distant history has become in main politically nuetral 'Herian style' Tourism and Theatre without any real political purpose as a really radical Welsh Red Theatre might have, but then that too is very much in the past? However, it does not have to remain there, all we need are radicals with acting talent and more interested in the Socialist Wales Struggle than grabbing grants, although that's alright for the community to persue, if that's what it takes to commemorate towards collective good end purpose of promoting knowledge of history and past struggles. However, not that alone, I would wish as I put forward below:
ADFYWIAD GOCH CYMRU. Red Resurgence Cymru advocates and promotes Socialist Agit - Prop Action: Campaigns and Struggles in Wales in support of all 'Brothers ... adfywiadgoch.blogspot.com/ - Cached
Then with purpose seek to educate to be free with entertainment on the street and down in the 'Retail Therapy Parks' with great purpose as perhaps a Welsh Socialist Vanguard towards Red Action - Red Resistence - Red Revolt in time! After all the majority of Politicians, Trade Unionists, Radical Activists and people in Wales are in agreement that Wales will suffer the hardest from these cuts due to our depressing post colonial history (arguably still a colony?) of post Industrial decline(that's not disputed!).
8 hours ago - This book explores the themes of colonial encounters and postcolonial... www.informaworld.com/smpp/.../title~db=all~content=t727507185~tab=toc
So why 100 years after the most signifigant Workers Rising in Wales for many years, that of the 1910 Tonypandy Riots are we not to the fore in struggle and here in Wales, not tagging on to the Coat Tails of the 'London Metro Left'. Is it because after the defeat by the Tories of the 1984 - 85 Miners Strike in Wales we have become tamed and docile or maybe just sucked into the consumerist bog with our youth brainwashed by X Factor and once militant Welsh Women just reading Celeb Pulp Rubbish and the young girls fondling their mobile phones all the time, interesting the lads are more likly to have ipod's stuck to their heads? But I digress!
Mind you, it seems with a little help from their friends in the media, our Plant Crachach/CyIG are getting their act together in protecting their future employment prospects down in their Pontcanna Patagonia. Right now, I have no time for 'ShamelessS4C' nor Plant Crachach, I see their campaign to save their future prospects as more than a distraction from where Wales needs to focus most at moment and hence. Yes! in organisation and carrying out all Wales major mobalisation against Tory Act of Aggression upon Wales, our Communities and People. Worrying about 'Y Crachach' - England's Client Tribe in Wales is not on my agenda and the Welsh Left need not feel it a must to have it high on their agenda, if at all. Please do not pander to the Cultural Nationalist Crach Pacifists just to get their support for this or that Anti - War March, you don't have to! The Welsh Left needs to work out it's own 'peoples policies' for all media in Wales, not just 38 years of pretty privellaged 'ShamelessS4C' style Teledu Cymru? Ring Fenced against review and questioning by devolved democratic procedure, never again! Put all Welsh Media under scrutiny of Local Authorities and WAG Commissions.
... it official policy will be debated at Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg's ... www.walesonline.co.uk/.../language-campaigners-to-refuse-to-pay-tv-licence-fee-91466-27555669/ - Cached
The Plant Crachach Campaign is of course also a diversion away from the reality that there is no point in fighting for an S4C II if their rural 'Cymric Heartlands' go into a major rural decline as will be result of the Tory cuts in Local Government spending. Not only will jobs go but also services and all this will make it impossible and near enough intolerable for most young people to live and consider a future in rural Wales. Thus all this plus massive unemployment throughout Wales will mean massive depopulation and 1000's will leave Wales, Wales will bleed away it's future as our youth packs up and leaves. Already much drawn away by greater opportunities elsewhere plus of course technology encourages them to depart native hearth and heritage for new horizons with greener pastures. Not everyone, that includes the majority who attend 'Ysgolion Cymraeg' will get work with Media Cymraeg be it based in Caernarfon, Caerffyrddin or Caerdydd unless 'Media Cymraeg' is devolved and communalised as I outline in recent posts in Welsh Remembrancer:
Blog of Gethin 'Iestyn' Gruffydd subtitled Remembrance, Retrospective and Revisionary, Riot and Rebellion, Revelry and Re-enactment. welshremembrancer.blogspot.com/ - Cached - Similar
So what's to do? for starters do not pander to Plaid Cymru nor Plant Crachach, forget 'Cultural Nationalism' as ever being fit and true allies. So
who will come up with a positive Plan of Action and Struggle for Socialists, Radical Republicans and Progressive Nationalists here in Wales? Who will lead the way forward, I look to the following for some good direction in these matters, in mean time at least discuss and debate but remember time is not with us, to launch at a May Day Rally in Llanelli 2011, a suggestion!
Calan Mai is the 1st May – On this day Mayday rallies, marches & cultural events happen all around the world, there is scarcely a capital city in Europe ... calanmai.wordpress.com/ - Cached - Similar
Rick Newnham, Welsh Communist Party secretary, analyses the Comprehensive Spending Review and how it will affect Wales. (Article first published in the ... welshcommunists.org/ - Cached
Based in Cardiff, Wales many of my blog posts may reflect that. ... The Right to Work posters read 'Protest against Tory cuts' and there was ... It seems that the 'keep is so broad it is ineffective' strategy is still in full effect though. ..... comes as some surprise as if no-one expected it, hence the title. ... everyonesfavouritecomrade.blogspot.com/ - Cached - Similar
26 Oct 2010 ... Campaigns for a living wage, against racism and oppression and for a socialistWales. www.socialistpartywales.org.uk/ - Cached - Similar
1 Feb 2010 ... Our party has always supported a Welsh parliament with law-making powers and the power to carry through socialist policies to benefit the ... wrexhamsocialistparty.org.uk/.../perspectives-for-wales-2010/ - Cached
Or is there no hope at all of any Welsh Left Unity Wales,
It was founded by the Socialist Party of England and Wales and Cymru Goch and some independents. From the start this seemed to many an unlikely alliance ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_Socialist_Alliance - Cached - Similar
Oh well remain opptimistic and ever hopeful!
NOT LEAST REMEMBER MUSICALS ARE NOT ENOUGH - WE NEED MOBALISATION OF RED RESISTENCE - WALES AGAINST THE TORY 'ACTS OF AGRESSION' AGAINST OUR COMMUNITIES AND PEOPLE and please here in Wales, not Birmingham or London but in Carmarthen, Caernarfon and else where not just Caerdydd either! to conclude, a look at Resistence else where in the British Isles:
19 hours ago - That is, there is now little scope for councillor resistance of the .... us stand up to the Tory programme of cuts more effectively than we might otherwise. ... thoughcowardsflinch.com/.../labour-councillors-and-tory-cuts-realities-and-responsibilities/
12 hours ago - Labels: coalition of resistance, cuts, public sector, trade unions ... unite opponents of ConDem cuts · Paul O'Grady calls for popular revolt to stop Tory cuts ....HANDS OFF WELSH LANGUAGE BROADCASTING. 2 hours ago. Political Scrapbook ... luna17activist.blogspot.com/.../if-you-only-go-to-one-conference-in.html
22 hours ago - We need resistance to it on the ground.” Councillors Frank Britton and Bernice Swift in ... You all canvassed for Tory cuts and you have got Tory cuts.” ... www.impartialreporter.com/.../392506-unions-lobby-successful-as-anticuts-motion-passed/
16 hours ago - These join the dots between the hundreds of anti-cuts groups and protests that.... has been re- elected as the top young Tory in Wales only two months after ... Tucker resigned as chairman of the Welsh branch of Conservative Future in July .... Socialist Economic Bulletin · socialist renewal · socialist resistance ... www.socialistunity.com/?cat=25 - Cached
The SSP is Scotland's socialist party that campaigns to replace capitalism with ... carries a brilliantly brief argument against the cuts and Philosophy .... Brian wants to link with others to mount an effective campaign against the blacklist. .... SSP Red Shirts protest against ToryButchery and LibDem Treachery. ... www.scottishsocialistparty.org/ - Cached - Similar
Forward to the next musical but lets have some Red Resistence as well?
22 Oct 2010 ... Buzz Magazine: The South Wales culture, what's on and entertainment guide. www.buzzmag.co.uk/uncategorized/broken-peace-theatre-preview/ - Cached
1 Oct 2010... Cynon Taf Cultural Services to commemorate the Tonypandy Riots of 1910... who will be contributing compositions and musical accompaniment guided ... Tickets cost £7.50 (or £15.00 to include a free Broken Peace CD), ... www.welshcountry.co.uk/.../7983-rct-park-a-dare-theatre-presents-broken-peace--the-tonypandy-riots- - Cached
29 Oct 2010 ... To mark the centenary of the Tonypandy Riots, Martyn Joseph has penned a ...Broken Peaceprovides an insight into the thoughts, emotions, ... www.walesonline.co.uk/.../a-musical-journey-into-history-91466-27561601/ - Cached
30 Oct 2010 ... Featuring music by Justin Nicholls, The Forgotten is set in Newport in 1839when a young man and his younger sister arrive in town in search ... www.walesonline.co.uk/.../musical-tells-classic-story-set-during-a-fascinating-period-of-history-91466-27568615/ - Cached
4 Nov 2008 ... On The 4th of November 1839 AD The Newport Rising, learn about famous dates ... Destination of the Month. October 2010: The National Forest ... www.information-britain.co.uk/famdates.php?id=608 - Cached - Similar
1 Nov 2010 ... A series of events marking 171 years since the Chartist Rising of 1839 will take place in Newport from 1 – 20 November. ... www.newport.gov.uk/_dc/index.cfm?fuseaction=news.pressrelease...
