Red Resurgence Cymru advocates and promotes Socialist Agit - Prop Action: Campaigns and Struggles in Wales in support of all 'Brothers and Sisters of the Ox' and the 'Wretched of the Earth' at Home and Abroad. We follow on from Cymru Goch I in an International Welsh Socialist Libertarian Tradition, taking aboard for further inspiration 'Class War'seeking to advance 'CRACH WAR' against the old establishment 'Taffia' and Y Crachach Newydd - England's Neo Colonial Client Tribe in Wales.
11 Nov 2010 ...Student demonstrators brought violence to London's streets yesterday on a scale not seen since the poll tax riots of 20 years ago. www.independent.co.uk/.../the-new-politics-student-riot-marks-end-of-coalitions-era-of-consensus-2130865.html - Cached
11 Nov 2010 ... The news cameras love the blood, cracked heads and the smashed glass. A fire is lit… www.anorak.co.uk/.../photos-of-student-protest-and-riot-at-millbank-tower-were-you-there.html- Cached
Red Political Femmes Fatales, see below re London Student Riots yesterday brought to mind a great heroine of Welsh Radical History, even if she only had her 15 Minutes of fame? On 19 June 1843 A Rebecca Demonstration was called to take place in Carmarthen, 1000's marched on and into the town under the banner CYFIAWNDER! Once in the Town the 'Lumpen Proletariat' hi-jacked the demonstration and led it in an attack on the Work House. There a young women a Frances Evans a farm servant who had recently given birth to an illegitimate baby, possibly kicked out of her job she ended up in the Work House. Now came her 15 Minutes, as the crowd burst in Frances stood on a table and did a wild dance and called for the crowd to continue wrecking the place. I think Frances deserves a statue too or at least some one out there with artistic talent do an illustration of this for a Protest Banner and Placards under the Slogan CYFIAWNDER!
25 Nov 2010 ... The disturbing new face of the riots threatened to overturn a police riot squad van as they smashed windows, looted riot shields, ... www.dailymail.co.uk/.../TUITION-FEES-PROTEST-Female-students-lead-student-riots.html
Frances Evans is our very own Marianne, I wonder if Plant Crachach/CyIG Spokes Person Menna Machreth will be a 'Cymric Marianne' and storm the Barricades of Bourgeoisie Reformism and call for a Welsh Revolution on the 4th December 2010 in Caernarfon under the walls of our very own 'Welsh Bastille'. Maybe not but maybe Bethan Jenkins will or Leanne Wood? because this is what we need, not reformism and not referendums, no! What Wales needs is a total Welsh Resistance and on going Permanant Revolution against cuts and the great carve up of our land by means of Cheque Book Conquest and New Colonialism. See below:
3 min - 28 Oct 2009 It is upon these very barricades that Liberty, the personification of freedom ( who the French call Marianne) stands. She holds the tri-color ... smarthistory.org/romanticism-in-france.html - more videos »
Does above echo Paris'68, perhaps not but worth a look back to the 'heady' days of the 'Sixties':
Students at the Sorbonne University in Paris met on 3 May to protest against the .....Beneath the Paving Stones: Situationists and the Beach, May 68. ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1968_in_France - Cached - Similar
by L Champagne - 1977 - Related articles The Beach Beneath The Paving Stones: May 1968 and French Theater. LENORA CHAMPAGNE. In the slogan, "the beach beneath the paving stones" from the Days of ... www.jstor.org/stable/3683980 - Similar
My homage to the Paris Commune 1871 in 2008 on my visit to Paris came across this 40th Anniversary Public Exhibition of the 1968 Student and Workers Riots. 'To The Barricades'.
26 Aug 2008 ... I took these photos on my visit to Paris in May, in main connection withParis .... RED REMEMBRANCER REFLECTIONS On 1969 2009 - 40 Yea. ... redremembrancer.blogspot.com/.../may-68-paris-students-revolt-40th.html
1 Jul 2008 ... RED REMEMBRANCER. A Welsh Radical PLatform: containing information on... in a show of solidarity between Merthyr 1831 and Paris 1871. ... redremembrancer.blogspot.com/.../1831-solidarity-paris-commune-1871.html - Cached
Loads of stuff in Red Remembrancer on Welsh Socialist history and Revolutionary Struggle, just need the time to go thru it post by post. Of course in 1968 I was engaged in my own Welsh Revolution and other than Ian Bone and Class War the 'Anglo - Welsh Left' was then as the Welsh Chartist Political Reformers and 'Great Depression Left' more interested in marching on London rather than Caernarfon. All up for some revisionism regards 'Anglo - Welsh Left' priorities, but not the time to consider too greatly at the moment as coming up soon is an opportunity for the 'Anglo - Welsh Left' to march on Caernarfon on the 4th December 2010 to perhaps make some real Welsh Revolutionary History and start to look for the Grass, no not that 'Grass', but more the Green! Green Grass of Home of the Vyrnwy and Brecon Estate kind for starters. Yes! THE GRASS BENEATH THE CASTLE WALLS! get my drift?
19 Nov 2010 ...MUDIAD COFIWN Past, Present & Future? A Historical Archive of material regards the National Consciousness raising movement COFIWN from 1972 ... cofiwn.blogspot.com/.../caernarfon-4-ragfyr-2010-remember.html - Cached
So one and all get on, not the blue road or the yellow brick road but more the RED ROAD THAT LEADS TO CAERNARFON IN DECEMBER, start preparing Radical and Revolutionary Flags and Banners, Placards and Posters now! Mean while consider on being a 'Victim of the Sixties', see film of below and you will see why!
Field of Dreams is a 1989 American drama-sports-fantasy film directed and adapted by Phil Alden Robinson from the novel Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella. ...
victims of the 60's. / prisoners of our own illusions. / paradies of our delusions. / enlightened from without. / illuminated by a Darkness ... www.authorsden.com/visit/viewPoetry.asp?id=29588 - United States - Cached
But then, I was never an Hippie but did it a 'Welsh Nationalist Way', far from pot and peace!
26 Apr 2007 ... The Cardiff Rally was not such a success, but the later one at Cilmeri was ...When Prince Charles visits the Welsh Office there is a major Anti ... longer the focus platform of resistence against the English Monarchy, ... awnms.blogspot.com/2007/.../anti-investiture-struggle-1966-1967.html - Cached
How to Crush the Crachlets, give em a Soft Toy to Cuddle, got a feeling Post Investiture'69 Plant Crachach grew up cuddling Mr Urdd and the present day S£C 'Media Crach' are going to have to dig out their Mr Urdd. Like I said do not be 'Crach Fodder' or you too could end up sucking your thumb and cuddling a Mr Urdd. Read on:
25 Mar 2010 ... Some were anti-royalty and others were simply just not interested. ... stage to make his presentation a highly organised protest took place when hundreds of ... and his obsession with the rise of Welsh patriotism and nationalism? ... Plaid Cymru, decided to leave the matter of the Investiture on the ... www.welshicons.org.uk/news/literature/mr-urdd-and-prince-charles/ - Cached
I suggest to Crachlets/Plant Crach, dig out your Mr Urdd cuddlies, colour them red and stick a Red Pitchfork in their hands. Now that would make a great illustration for your Caernarfon Placards and Posters, an 'Angry Red Mr Urdd' with a Peasants Pitch Fork and Chartists Rebel Pike in hands, fantastic! Meanwhile to show that even the rural Cymric Heartland of Rural Nationalist Gwynedd has a great Red History of Struggle, get a load of this most inspirational stuff. Do keep in mind my slogan 'NO ENCLOSURE OF THE MIND, BODY and SPIRIT OF WELSH RESISTENCE AGAINST TORY AGGRESSION ON OUR COUNTRY, COMMUNITIES AND PEOPLE! Read on of Enclosure Act 1808 and of popular protest against enclosures:
In 1780 there appears the first exports of corn from Pwllheli. ... the gentry of the shire had held a meeting at Caernarfon in 1808 at which they ... Once again there were riots among the cottagers whose 'encroachments' were to be sold ... www.penllyn.com/1/Hanes/AMAETH.HTML - Cached
Also read of Peoples Hero Robert William Hughes of Cae'r Mynydd, Llithfaen. Well deserving of a statue as much as any Prince, so what you waiting for? On the 4th of December 2010 in Caernarfon let the spirit of such has Robert William Hughes be with you and do not forget the 'Murdered Martyrs' of Caernarfon Corn Riot 1752.
Llithfaen Carnguwch Church. The history of the church dates back to the seventh century and it is consecrated to Saint Beuno, the patron saint of Clynnog, ... www.tafarnyfic.com/llithfaen-heritage-trails-milestones.htm - Cached - Similar
Footnote: On Rebecca Riots see below and note, it's 100th Anniversary of the book published 1910 detailed in this link:
An Address to the Inhabitants of Conwil Caio in the County of Carmarthen..... Yet the manner of attack and the dress of Rebecca and her Daughters were in .... which culminated in the attack on the Workhouse, where, on the arrival of ... sniggle.net/Experiment/index.php?entry=rebecca - Cached
Any Lessons regards the Economic Crisis, obviously the first being don't trust bankers and politicians are just as bad and I doubt if Welsh Politicians, not least Assembly Members would have been any better. C'mon just look how they let 'ShamelessS£C' get out of control and same as the 'Expenses Scandal' do you seriously believe that none of these Politicians be they left, right or centre did not know what was going on. Of course they knew but were either too deep in the 'glory shit' themselves or were putting Political Parties above interests of the people. Like wise 'ShamelessS£C', of course the Politicians, not least Plaid ones knew what was going on but kept 'Buttoned Lip' because I have no doubt, plenty of their family members plus personal and political freinds had their fingers in the 'Honey Pot' and were other wise riding the 'Gravy Train'. Even now the Politicians remain quite about the fact that their M.E.P's have their fingers deep in the 'Euro Till' and are making sure that when the Evil Empire eventually collapses, they are alright Jac!
15 Nov 2010 ...Dispatches also examines how money meant to help deprived areas has actually .... waste and corruption, then the better it will be for all of them. ... European Union and the Euro zone was a mistake to start with and a ... www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/episode.../episode-4 - Cached
As for the Bankers, sure enough here's where the fault lays and that can be laid at Thatchers and Blairs Doors equally. Thatcher kicked it all of with deregulation of Banking and the Stock Market to attract it all to the City of London and then blame Blair for not bringing regulations back for good reasons. I worked in the City of London as a KP, that's Kitchen Porter for those unaware of the short hand, in a number of major Banks and Dealing Houses and 'Kitchen Gossip' then was of 'Dealers' on up to £30 Million Bonuses, this was over 12 years back. I remember well in particular how if on day shifts, at end of the day all the way down Cheapside and over in 'The Borough' aka Southwark (my favourite hang out in London), every night was like an 'Esiteddfod' in a small town with Bank Workers living it up in the Pubs and drinking on the street. Yes! they were good times where the Bankers and Dealers got wealthy largelly gambling peoples money away:
The phrase Big Bang, used in reference to the suddenderegulation of financial ... of the City of Londonwere failing to compete with foreign banking. ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang_(financial_markets) -Cached - Similar
Why now the people have to pay for this mess is unbelievable, I think we need more than a Robin Hood Tax (see below link), lets start sticking Bankers in Jail, the old Soviet Union would have executed them as 'Profiteers'. How's about at least 'Kicking them in the Balls' and then confiscating their ill gained wealth and property; take their Houses, Cars and private planes and luxury yachts off them. So what if they become homeless, have to catch buses and their Children go to Comprehensives, that's just for starters.
10 Mar 2010 ...Banking occupies a unique niche in the economy.... Both vital and prone to crisis, Wall Street and the City of London are the beating hearts of the .... in part from the orgy of greed let loose by reckless deregulation. ... www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest.../article7055759.ece
Unfortunatly, much is my wishful thinking, it will never happen unless the people make it happen? At moment they are too busy doing their Xmas shopping to bother with even protesting let alone a Red Revolution, meanwhile in Wales unlike else where in Europe we do not have a Revolutionary Political Movement ready to initiate a national radical struggle. Yes! the Trade Unions are very active but our Welsh Political Parties are hardly out front, although Plant Crachach/CyIG have seized the Initiative with their 'NO CUTS' rally in Caernarfon on 4th December but I do not trust this lot further than I could throw em, not very far! Are they holding this rally for altruistic reasons or do they have their own support S£C Secret Agenda to slip in their own Crachach motives via a 'No Cuts Trojan Horse'. Whatever, they have gone to all the trouble of organising this Rally, so support but use for real radical reasons. As take it for me once the Tories have used this S£C Ploy to distract Nationalists and make concessions to 'Y Crachach' you want see much more of Plant Crachach in any No Cuts Campaign. They will be too busy buckling down to getting jobs in a reworked S£C or thinking up an Independant TV production Company to set up, ain't that the truth! . In the mean time read below, yes! S£C has bad as Bankers and Dealers, kick them in the bollocks too!
20 Sep 2010 ... Clearly the question re. how far the money might go if used in this way ...S4C's stake in SDN did not come about as a result of selling ... paidcontent.co.uk/.../419-s4cs-34-million-spare-cash-and-how-to-use-it/ - Cached
Yes! to Caernarfon but along a Red Road and on a Red Platform, so if heading for Caernarfon, not least from the South than take plenty of Baneri 1831 flags and 'Bara Neu Waed' Banners:
19 Nov 2010 ...MUDIAD COFIWN Past, Present & Future? A Historical Archive of material regards the National Consciousness raising movement COFIWN from 1972 ... cofiwn.blogspot.com/.../caernarfon-4-ragfyr-2010-remember.html - Cached
Maybe Caernarfon with the only 'Bastille' we have got, yes that Edwardian Castle, is as good a place as any to begin the Welsh Revolution but if Owain Glyndwr failed to take it and for eight centuries it's proved indestructable from just falling down. Then there is no hope of pulling it down or even storming it as the French Revolutionaries did to the Bastille in 1789, I should know, I have tried often enough and failed!
26 Apr 2007 ... An Archive of material record informing on Alternative Welsh Nationalism, Movement and ... 3: 1968. The Campaign Takes off big time, ''The Year of Revolution''. . . An Highly succesful Rally is held in Caernarfon to launch the campaign. .... STORM THECASTLE - CLOSE IT DOWN 2009 Proposals fo. ... awnms.blogspot.com/2007/.../anti-investiture-struggle-1966-1967.html - Cached
16 Jan 2007 ... 1283 - 1983. In March 1983, The Welsh Tourist Board – in their wisdom? ...During the 'Gwyl y Cestyll' launch weekend, we called a 'Sarhad ... cofiwn.blogspot.com/.../great-battle-gwyl-y-cestyllfestival-of.html - Cached
What we need now is a Revolutionary Anthem for the 4th December, how's about the below but 'Yn Cymraeg' for Caernarfon event, does not have to be exactly as below but in the spirit intended. Perhaps as intended for launch at Caernarfon why refer to the two '1752 Murdered Martyrs' of that town and others who lost their lives in the 'Trech Gwlad Nag Arglwydd' revolts down througfh the ages. Personally, I consider Cwm Rhondda some what dreary, much prefer an up beat Calon Lan as Cayo played on his Accordian, foot stomping style!
12 Nov 2010 ... I do not mean have a riot! just turn up with loads of Radical Posters and Placards, Banners and flags not least of course CORN RIOT 2010 ... welshpatriot.blogspot.com/.../come-join-corn-riot-corn-cymru-onward.html - Cached
I have been to Caernarfon twice this year and Vyrnwy thrice apart from Tonypandy twice and else where, so myself could not stand another journey to the Royal Borough. Not least as I have to rise up a Red Pitchfork some where else before then. Am afraid you will have to start the Revolution with out me?
10 Nov 2010 ...RED REMEMBRANCER. A Welsh Radical PLatform: containing information on history of peoples popular and radical political struggles in Wales, ... redremembrancer.blogspot.com/ - Cached - Similar
