Leanne Wood of Plaid Cymru, a woman from the
Rhondda, is now primed to play the role that Neil Kinnock played before in
Welsh Labour Party History.
By winning the leadership of Plaid
Cymru Leanne Wood is the new Kinnockio. That role is to deceive people into
believing that Plaid Cymru is something which it is not.
Wales is in accelerated economic decline, being the
second poorest country in Western Europe after Portugal. The fact is disguised
by taking the United Kingdom as a whole, thus glossing over the dire situation
in Wales. The per capita income in Wales compares unfavourably with Greece.
Wales urgently needs new political leadership.
The political and business establishment know they
are in deep crisis and that widespread misery in Wales will lead to mass
resistance sooner or later.
Leanne Wood taking the leadership of Plaid Cymru
will spread and perpetuate the illusion that Plaid Cymru is or can become a
vehicle for a progressive, socialist and republican movement, that Plaid Cymru
can challenge the Westminster imposed austerities, take Wales out of the
neo-imperialist wars in the middle east and elsewhere, and get rid of those imposters
posing as the Prince and Princess of Wales.
Plaid Cymru cannot really do this, because it is
at bottom the party that represents Welsh businessmen, and not the working
people of Wales. Its call for an independent Wales inside the European Union
only seeks to change one set of rulers from Westminster for another in
Brussels, the pound for the Euro.
The essential link between national and class
oppression was exposed in Ireland by James Connolly. In Wales, Gethin ap lestyn
Gruffydd is one of the few Welsh patriots that recognises that at root
the national question in Wales is a class question.
Leanne Wood's leadership will deceive people for a
while, but it is obvious that a new party is needed. One that can struggle for
the working people of Wales in deeds and not just in words.
Leanne Wood by winning the Plaid Cymru Election is
helping to spread the illusion that Plaid Cymru is indeed the long awaited
Welsh Socialist Republican Party that Wales needs.
But this is a lie that has to be nailed, Plaid
Cymru is a petty bourgeois cultural nationalist party that will betray the
working class just like the Labour, Liberal or Tory parties in Wales have done
and many people already know that in their hearts.
Plaid Cymru will dissipate all the revolutionary
energy that the new great unrest will create unless we bring forth a genuine
Welsh Socialist Republican Party.
That is why we call for the convening of a
Welsh Socialist Republican Congress in June 2012 to charge a
working group to bring forth The Welsh Socialist Republican Party.
Forward to a Welsh Socialist Republican Party !
First Statement of the Great Unrest 2012
Organizing Group for A Welsh Socialist Republican Party
Second Statement issued calling for support of new Welsh Land Act
It is unacceptable that
in 2012 that Land in Wales is owned by the English Crown and Aristocrats.
These Lands were stolen from the Welsh People and never were or never
can belong to the Aristocracy or Monarchy of another country because of
historic conquest.
Welsh People are being denied a say or even
access to their own land because of the ownership of Welsh Land by the English
Crown and Aristocrats.
Today we have the Duke of Beaufort trying to
impose a wind farm on the Mynydd y Gwair
in Carmarthenshire against the wishes of the local Welsh People because of his
historic title to the land based on robbery and conquest.
Mynydd y Bettws is a 100% protected and very
large habitat area of supreme beauty has had a Wind Farm was imposed on this
community by using the Enclosure Act of 1845 by Carmarthen County Council in
violation of EEC rules for the benefit of an overseas company.
All Crown and Aristocratic Land in Wales
should to be returned to the people of Wales for Welsh People to decide the use
of their own Land. We support the call for a new Welsh Land Act to achieve that
aim.
A Welsh Land Act electronic petition to
remove the Duke of Beaufort's lands and Crown Lands by compulsory purchase is
now being organized throughout Wales. Sign the petition below
The Campaign for a Welsh Land Act will be
launched on the Myndd y Gwair on the 10th June 2012
Sign the petition for the new Welsh Land Act here :
Statement of the Great Unrest 2012 Organizing
Group for A Welsh Socialist Republican Party
Third Statement issued on May Day 2012
Bread or Blood - The Cry of
1831 when Red Flag first raised in Wales
Welsh Socialist Republicans
- Celebrate - May Day 2012
Welsh Socialist
Republicans rejects the fake "independence" of Plaid Cymru which
replaces capitalist Britain with capitalist Europe,the euro with the pound.
We will not be party
to utilizing Plaid Cymru's Welsh Nationalism to put a set of bureaucrat capitalists
in power in Wales to better serve the Eurocrats of Brussels rather than London
Welsh Socialist
Republicans reject the anti English nationalist fringe with their separatism
and closet racism.
The Welsh Socialist
Republicans believes the only class in Wales which is capable of leading Wales
to the new democracy of autonomous self government in Wales is the working
class. That is true Welsh Independence !
Our Welsh national
struggle is a class struggle.
In the struggle for
national and social liberation in Wales we need to enlist the support of
English, Scottish and the Irish working class and other national minorities.
Organizationally we
seek to strengthen ties with working class organizations throughout the British
Isles to support working class power in Wales, as this will also give a base
area for their class struggles against the British State.
We are Welsh
Socialist Republicans with the working class spirit of the Miners Next Step of
1912 we believe in the power of our class the working class to change Wales and
the world.
Long live the spirit
of the Great Unrest of 1910-12 - Long Live The Great Unrest of 2012 and Wales
Next Step – Welsh Socialist Republicanism.
Statement of the Great Unrest 2012 Organizing
Group for A Welsh Socialist Republican Party
Fourth Statement on Welsh Council Elections
Clearly the Labour
Party in Wales connects better to the people because it is seen as the champion
of class issues which are more important to most Welsh People than Welsh
national issues.
Whether the Labour
Party is a true champion of the working class is another issue, that is how
they are perceived and perception is what bourgeois politics is all
about.
Plaid Cymru is not
seen as a working class party to champion working class issues, but has a party
of cultural nationalists and until this perception is changed Plaid Cymru is
condemned to the margins of politics and Welsh Independence will be a pipe
dream.
Electing a leader
from the valleys does not change the perception of Plaid Cymru only militant
defense of the working class interests will.
How many Plaid Cymru
councilors would not just vote against council cuts but risk going to prison to
oppose cuts in Wales ?.
Has our comrade
Gethin ap Gruffydd says they talk the talk but do not walk the walk.
In 1935 Phil
Abraham and 10 others in Blaina and Abertillery were send to prison for
fighting the national assitance cuts by the then National Government following
the Blaina Riot of 1935.
Phil Abraham’s talked
the talk and walked the walk, and the National Government changed its policy of
further cutting national assistance, fearful of full scale revolt in the
Valleys of Wales.
Sweet talk from
Leanne Wood will take Plaid Cymru nowhere, radical action in the sprit of Phil
Abrahams will.
The task facing Welsh
Socialist Republicans is to create a political movement where working class and
national interests converge and become indistinguishable.
When the Welsh
national party is recognized as a working class party we will have arrived on
the political scene.
We have Wales to Win,
we have a World to Win – Long Live the Great Unrest Group 2012 for a Welsh
Socialist Republican Party.
See Video on Blaina Riot of 1935 here:
Contact Email greatunrest2012@gmail.com
Hi Nick!
ReplyDelete'Plaid Cymru is a petty bourgeois cultural nationalist party' is a bit strong. I think it's a useful vehicle for debate and action, and has some very interesting ideas.
But all the best with the revolution, more political activity can only be applauded as long as it's not the fascist 'BNP'
the outcome from a new welsh socialist republican party will be what? marginalisation. siphoning off energies into a dead end. slapstick politics. empty gestures. macho posturing. self congratulation. irrelevancy. clearing out the left from plaid cymru and making it even more bourgois and more like the snp. no, we dont want to go there. fin.
ReplyDeleteClearly we have upset you - that is a good thing -for the politics you describe is not our politics - it would more appropriately fit the fake socialism of Plaid Cymru.
ReplyDeleteOne of the first campaigns we have participated in is the call for a Welsh Land Act,a serious attempt to bring the issue of Crown Lands in Wales and English aristocratic estates into the political life of Wales - it is a democratic demand so basic and so ignored by Plaid Cymru who in the advance guard of eco - colonialism with it's industrial scale windmilling of Wales.
Communities rather than corporates should be the bases for sound ecology - Plaid is not only with the corporates,some of it's leading members are the corporate Eco colonialists.
You have the gall to talk about empty gestures and rhetoric from an organisation that has just come into existence and you fail to perceive the empty rhetoric from an organisation that has been in existence for decades- time to end the Plaid Cymru politics of self deception - which is probably why we rattled you cage.
I am an Australian of Welsh heritage I lived in Bangor for acouple of years 1978-80 . I believe the Welsh Socialist Republican Party is 'spot on' .eg '....Communities rather than corporates should be the basis for sound ecology."It seems you have the dialectic of socialism and retention of national identity more accurately defined than most. It is aproblem yet to be solved in Australia...the cultural and economic imperialism via the USA.Ths has resulted in a 'aristocracy of labour' with the associated false consciosness of a 'bought off' society.Our immediate struggle is to gain independence and sovereignity
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