Monday, 26 July 2010

YMGYRCH VYRNWY! RADICAL WALES - DOES THIS REALLY MEAN WALES OR JUST 'SOUTH WALES?' Why Not Come Aboard The Proposed Vyrnwy Anti - Land Grab Campaign?

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Whatever, your efforts below are refreshingly welcome to an otherwise all too bloody boring, all to compfortable Cymric Cultural Nationalist - 'Crachach' dominated Cymru/Wales. In reality it is 'Y Crachach' self advancing and serving serving 'Petite Bougeoisie Bastards' that have, ironically with the remnants of 'Old Labour Taffia' spawned the evil of this 'One Wales Coalition'. There is nothing I would like better than to march on their 'Pontcanna Patagonia', it has been the end poroduct desire of this 'Plant Crachach' bred in 'Cultural Nationalist Struggles' of the 'Sixties'. It is this contemporay Media/Arts.Culture 'Cultural Crachach Crowd' that have been part of the problem not the solution for the continued Socio - Economic and Cultural decline of 'Cymru Cymraeg' in Rural Wales aka 'Y Fro Cymraeg' aka before that pura Wallia' and before that 'Hen Tiroedd Cunedda'.
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All that aside, a little moan at the 'Anglo - Welsh Left', since the inter war depression years it has led 'Welsh Workers' and 'Radical Political Activists' on marches to London, Volunteers to Spain down to Greenham Common to the present day still to London to protest for peace against wars. Marching in Wales is usually in 'The South', with the Anti - Aparthied struggle and campaigns against the Panzers, including Unemployment also Anti - Poll Tax, Now against the Anglo - Welsh 'Nazi' Defence Leagues. Whilst CND area found roots and inspiration very much in a 'Welsh Religious Pacifism Tradition'. This is of course just a glance over, not giving due attention to Miners disputes of recent past back to the 'Stay Down Strikes', nor the couragous Valley's Women involved in the 'Welfare campaigns' in the 'Inter War Years'. Least not lets not forget the 'Hunger Marches' of the the depression years again marching to London and singing in the streets of English Towns for food or migrating to Kent or Pensylvania as in case of some in my distant family.
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Yes! this not the complete picture and I guess there is a lot of generalisation but within is some truth! On that 'truth', I say it really is time we started marching in Wales and not just on the usual 'Left agenda' but lets intrude on the Nationalist, not least 'Cultural Nationalist Agendas'. Let a 'Welsh Left' start marching more on the Welsh Assembly Government rather than the Parliament in London, not least let us now see the Radical Wales Left taking a lead in the proposed LAND & LIBERTY CAMPAIGN and join in a 'Welsh National March' To Vyrnwy, why not? Discuss & Debate in your forums but do not over indulge as it really is time to walk and run, not talk and then go wandering off in every which way? It is now we must 'SEIZE THE TIME!'.
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My thanks for listing my blogs in the below, phew thought you might have a go at my grammer and spelling (my way of f******! up the English Language). No! it's the 'Colour Coding' well that started off as a way of highlighting some important points for the 'unitiated' but now I think it might have turned into one of my O.C.D issues, I am 'Checker', mild one though, only takes me 'three minutes' to get out of the house. Though rather worrying, I have started to collect 'Real Ale Bottles' (see I cannot stop myself) and I am running out of Shelf Space, I can feel a crisis coming on better get marching and camping fast! or other wise it's 'ANXT FAWR'.
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Why so many blogs, that's an easy one! So, I can email link out from time to time to various 'Theme Interest' areas. Just look at it as my 'Remembrancers - 'Hedge Teacher' College' with different departments, kind of thing! 'Forgive my sins' and as some one scrated on the walls of a Methyr Public Toilet amongst all the 'Filth', stood out the words 'DO NOT JUDGE ME!' ( I took a photo, will post it some time). I swear it was not me who did it, honest! it was not 'Colour Coded' and, anyway I wrote the filth!!!! No, I did'nt? did I?
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Other than all that see first link below and note my appeal for help, all help will be appreciated. (note my email 'in & out' is down, hope to get fixed over weekend).
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CAMPAIGNS CYMRU: VYRNWY ISSUE: MEDIA PROMOTION of the PATHETIC ...

26 Jul 2010 ... Links on "Lake Vyrnwy cooperation campaign / ymgyrch Corfforaeth ... - 23 Jul .... LAND & LIBERTY CAMPAIGN CYMRU 2010: 'VYRNWY MAS O'. ...
ymgyrch.blogspot.com/2010/07/vyrnwy-issue-media-promotion-of.html
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See below Radical Wales and other Radical Welsh Left links:
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  1. Radical Wales: Ummah of Muhammad: putting the mental in fundamental

    13 Jul 2010 ... Ummah of Muhammad (UoM) are a Wales-based Islamic organisation who claim to 'protect the symbols of Islam'. They called a demo on the 10th ...
    www.radicalwales.org/.../ummah-of-muhammad-putting-mental-in.html - Cached
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  2. UK Indymedia - Radical Wales launched!

    Radical Wales | 05.07.2010 08:05 | Other Press. Radical Wales exists as a platform for considered radical political commentary and discussion in Wales. ...
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    Radical Wales: Launched - Cardiff Social Centre | Google Groups

    5 Jul 2010 ... Radical Wales exists as a platform for considered radical political commentary and discussion in Wales. We hope to attract a wide range of ...
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    Radical Wales blog aggregator - urban75 forums

    21 posts - 9 authors - Last post: 8 Jul
    I also agree that the Radical Wales aggregator should leave out Plaid, they are not part of the far-left or of revolutionary politics. ...www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=10752253 - Cached
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Calan Mai

- 2 visits - 5 May
1 May 2008 ... Calan Mai is the 1st May – On this day Mayday rallies, marches & cultural events happen all around the world, there is scarcely a capital ...
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Never mind about the 'sixties' the past is another country, useless unless itt inspires us to action, then it is really not much use at all. Just view the 'Patriotic Fringe Fantasist' I 'ear bash' regards their parading and posing but doing very little else?
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Swansea « Ian Bone

18 Apr 2010 ... I raise this now because I wrote about the FWA in 'Bash the Rich' ... Ian Bone was an anarchist in Swansea in 1968 – a town where you still ...
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GETHIN AP GRUFFYDDD and the FWA - urban75 forums

9 posts - 6 authors - Last post: 1 Apr 2008
Gethin has a slew of blogs, here's one of em: .... Christmas and Year Review forums, Christmas and Year Review 2009, Christmas 2008 ...
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Cayo's 'accomplices' - urban75 forums

3 posts - 3 authors - Last post: 25 Feb 2008
Keith Griffiths (Gethin ap Gruffudd) David John Underhill Tony Lewis ... Christmas and Year Review forums, Christmas and Year Review 2009 ...
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50 odd years later and you get >
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RED REMEMBRANCER: MY RED REMBRANCERS NEW YEAR WISHES in Memory of ...

- 3 visits - 16 Jul

1 Jan 2010 ... RED REMEMBRANCER. A Welsh Radical PLatform: containing information on history of peoples popular and radical political struggles in Wales, ...
redremembrancer.blogspot.com/.../my-2010-red-rembrancers-new-year-wish.html - Cached
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NB: Make most of my blogs as they are coming down post
'Samhain' - 1st Tachwedd 2010 to stop me blogging, so that
I can get on with 'packaging' into books plus archiving along
with other stuff to NLW and University Libraries. Not least, I have
a dead line of 2016 absolute patriotic/political retirement deadline
with some 'Hypno - Therapy' to assist me on my way of remaing years
of relaxing and lieisure activities as being a 'Grey Haired Grumbly' Nuisence'
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H&H!
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Gethin.

Thursday, 22 July 2010

LAND & LIBERTY - THE VYRNWY CAMPAIGN TOWARDS A MUDIAD 'ZAPATISTA' CYMRU?

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Increasingly Cymru/Wales is becoming via WAG and 'Devolution' under the influence and increasing control of a new Neo - Colonial 'Cymru/Wales Ruling Elite'. It is interesting that much under pinning such is a self serving so called 'Welsh Intelligensia', it is very instructive indeed as to the 'Brit Mind' of that 'Welsh Intelligentsia' central to which is a 'Welsh Establishment Intellectual Elite' which produces such literature, as example, an Illustrated booklet officially produced for higher schools; 'Terfysg a Phrotest' by Catrin Stevens, there are 20 section on the history of Revolt and protest from Owain Glyndwr to Popular Risings to 'Rock & Roll' , Welsh Language Struggle and Greenham Common. However, whilst 'Tan yn Llyn 1936 Three ' gets a place in this largelly 'Bourgeoisie Cultural Nationalist' presentation, as does 'Cofiwch Dreweryn' but with out mention of patriots as Owain Williams nor the 'Boys from Gwent'.
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How far they will go in 'Taff Forelock Tugging' and bending to their 'Sais Masters' to uphold themselves as 'Y Crachach', our very own Cymric 'Noveau Riche' aka 'England's Client Tribe in Wales' is most illuminating. It is unfortunate that most 'Working Class' Welsh Nationalists, cannot see this. Not least the 'Patriotic Fringe Fantasists' that have become the post 'Devolution Debris' of an attempted but failed Alternative Welsh Nationalist Movement and Struggle, see link:
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Alternative Welsh Nationalist Archive: Welsh Republican Movement ...

- 6 visits - 07:19
13 Feb 2007 ... An Archive of material record informing on Alternative Welsh Nationalism, Movement and Struggle 1946 - 2006. This archive will contain a ...
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All rather sad and unfortunate for they? because they, these Patriotic 'Fringe Fantasists' are nought but the 'Cannon Fodder' of a Petite
Bourgeoisie 'Cultural Nationalism' or, even worse become the 'Taff Tools' of
the 'British Secret Police'. Either way if they don't wake up, wise up and possibly join with a new radical 'Adfywiad Goch' struggle could find themselves seriously on the wrong side and essentially 'Class Traitors' and 'Enemies of the People, communities and country'. The stupity or deliberate ways and means by which a number of 'Super Knee Jerking Patriots' carry on, particularly amongst the old & new 'Good Old Boys' is something we can do without but it seems it will never going away! This 'Patriotic fantasist Fringe' is best seen in their parading and posing at Patriotic Rallies as annually at a Rali Cilmeri, that has totally lost it's radical patriotic purpose to become a 'pale shadow' of it's past platform of Anti - English Crown and Investitures of English Princes of Wales purpose. Now such has become no more than a 'Parody of Patriotism', advanced today in particular by the pointless patriotic 'Facebook Fusiliers' of the 'grouplet' Balchder Cymru.
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All of which turns me back to the days of, not the FWA and MAC but more to my brothers Welsh Socialist Vanguard, Ian Bones Class War and Cymru Goch I . Now more and more as each day passes and I re-politicise myself with all this focus on promoting a Land & Liberty Campaign, researching up information on radical struggles world wide I am fast coming to the oppinion that for starters any Language, Land and Liberty Campaign based on and around the Vyrnwy Land Sell Off Campaign must of most urgent nessessity go beyond the Welsh 'Rebecca Revolt' beloved by 'Cultural Nationalism' and needs instead to now look towards the worldwide 'Zapatista Movement' for inspiration and guidence, see link below:
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The Zapatista Movement

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The PRI is also using food and health care as weaponry to strangle the Zapatista movement. Food and supplies will sit in Warehouses that require permits for ...
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Zapatista Movement « Globalisethis – New Media for Peace

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Probably one of the many ironies of the Zapatista Movement against capitalism, neoliberaliberalism, giant corporations and trademarks is that the image of ...
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The Zapatista Movement

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The PRI is also using food and health care as
weaponry to strangle the Zapatista movement.
Food and supplies will sit in Warehouses that
require permits for ...
www.angelfire.com/pe
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Of course I do not mean in the Armed Revolutionary
way but,
more in seeking a new International philosophy,
theory and
practise of struggle, in rural Cymru in particular.
Worth some
consideration, yes! In any deliberations here
do also read the
excellent books on Social Struggles as
'BEFORE REBECCA'.
Plus other material some of which
I have linked to below:
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  1. 6 Aug 2004 ... From Before Rebecca, D J V Jones, 1973; S.50Q Extrtact from letter found at.... Published by M W Thompson (ed) in The Journeys of Sir Richard Colt Hoare ThroughWales and England, 1793-1810. .... Social Conditions and Protest ... S.192P Portrait ofJohn Frost of Newport. From A History of Chartism. ...www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/PeopleProt.html - Cached - Similar
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  2. Early Modern Wales Bibliography

    13 May 2005 ... 'Writing the social history of modern Wales: approaches, achievements and.... See also the articles by D J V Jones and David Williams which both ... Jones, David J V.Before Rebecca: popular protests in Wales 1793-1835. ...
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    Law Enforcement and Popular Disturbances in Wales, 1793-1835

    by DJV Jones - 1970 - Cited by 2 - Related articles
    In the new political, economic, and
    social context of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth... shire and Carmarthenshire, the home of the mythical Rebecca. Some ... illness, and much of his work devolved on Sheriff John Foley. More .... rumors. Four months before the huge south Wales strike of 1816 the ...
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        1. iot and Protest - Crime, Law and Order, c.1500-1800

                  1. D.J.V. Jones. 'The corn riots in Wales, 1793-1801'. Welsh History Review,
                          1. 2 (1965). v. -----.Before Rebecca: Popular protests in Wales 1793-1835. 1973. v ...
          1. earlymodernweb.freehostia.com/wikindx/index.php?action...id... - Cached
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the Study of Welsh Culture and
History 2003. All Rights Reserved. ... social values of bourgeois England, and in the process of its .... Jones, Before Rebecca: Popular Protest in Wales 1793-1835 (London: Allen Lane, 1975). .... as Dr William Price toured the south Walescoalfield “to expound the ideas of Thomas ...
www.flint.umich.edu/~ellisjs/Roberts.pdf
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However, rather than Welsh Radical Patriots
heading of for Mexico perhaps we need to
focus our radical Solidarity and Support with
the Mapuche Indians of Patagoinia -
Forward a Free Patagonia!
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  1. Volunteering in Patagonia: It's All About Land

    28 Sep 2009 ... Procuring the supplies needed to construct a small dwelling, keep a few ...So, why do the struggles of a small band of Mapuche in some obscure corner of ... If you're planning to travel to Patagonia, consider a volunteer stint with .... Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran ...
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  2. Fences are marching across the Patagonian wilderness, displacing ...

    That was the first privatization of Patagonia – it was not to be the last. ... Atilio recalls that hewanted to 'go back to the place where I was born, ... For the Mapuche the location of land is very important. ... at the Department of Political Science and a former volunteer with the New Internationalist. ...
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  3. Volunteering in Patagonia: It's All About Land, de Matador Network ...

    In August of 2002, a local Mapuche couple made the decision to ... If you're planning to travel to Patagonia, consider a volunteer stint with this Matador ...
    es-es.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=147467541757 - Cached
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  4. A News Digest Of The Mapuche Conflict During July And August

    24 Aug 2004 ... The report claimed the "main source of conflict is radical Mapuche Indiangroups, who have used violent tactics to press their land claims ...
    www.mapuche-nation.org/english/html/news/n-73.htm - Cached.
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    Of course, I discourage 'Infantile Leftism' as I would reject
    'Infantile Patriotism'.
    1. However, if you look at previous posts
    1. in this blog you will find links to a number
    1. of Wales based
    1. Anarchist and Libertarian Groups worthy of study, then there
    1. is
    1. Ian Bones 'Bash The Rich book and web site, see links:
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    1. Ian Bone

      - 2 visits - 22 Jun
      23 Jul 2010 ... BASH THE RICH FILM UPDATES. Greg Hall has updated the site with an interview with me on the Hackney Poll Tax riot, some rare stuff on John ...
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    2. Bash the Rich: True Life Confessions of an Anarchist in the UK ...

      Bash the Rich: True Life Confessions of an Anarchist in the UK: Amazon.co.uk: Ian Bone, Richard Jones, Trevor Wyatt: Books.
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    For further enlightenment, see following:
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    1. RED REMEMBRANCER: MY RED REMBRANCERS NEW YEAR WISHES in Memory of ...

      - 3 visits - 16 Jul
      1 Jan 2010 ... RED REMEMBRANCER. A Welsh Radical PLatform: containing information on history of peoples popular and radical political struggles in Wales, ...redremembrancer.blogspot.com/.../my-2010-red-rembrancers-new-year-wish.html -Cached
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      Great shame that nothing came of Calan Mai but
      why not make it happen next year in Llanelli to
      commemorate the riots of 1911, with 2011 being the
      100th Anniversary it would be as good a time as any to
      breath new life into Calan Mai?
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        1. Calan Mai

          - 2 visits - 5 May
        1. 1 May 2008... on his Red Rememberer blog Gethin 'Iestyn' Gruffydd suggests Swansea ...Autonomous Destination · Peppermint Iguana · Red Remembrancer ...
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      1. Yes! Political Education and knowledge of popular struggles
        in history is needed but so is our own contemporary
        'Popular Struggle' and the campaign that such is founded on.
        So let the Vyrnwy Land Sale Issue Campaign be a platform
        for 'Adfywiad Agit - Prop Activism', not least a learning curve!
        See link below:
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    1. CAMPAIGNS CYMRU: CYMRU/WALES, LAKE VYRNWY RESERVIOR: ANTI - LAND ...

      18 Jul 2010 ... The Anti - Investiture Struggle 1966 - 1967 - 1968 - 1969. ..... Mapuche Indians in the southern Argentine region of Patagonia, who in 2002 took part ... have ...January (6). VOLUNTEERS WANTED as well as Campaigners. ...
      ymgyrch.blogspot.com/.../vyrnwy-anti-land-grab-campaign-freedom.html - Cached
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      So on with it, don't wait for National leaders,
      Committees and meetings, keep to the
        1. principle
        1. and policies of 'Autonmist Action'.
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      H&H!
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      Gethin Goch.

      PS: A future post will look at the future of radical struggle in non rural Wales,
      so do note:
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      Tonypandy 2010

      Commemorating The 100th Anniversary ... The Tonypandy Riots relate to specific events in early November 1910 when strikers, impassioned by extended ...
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