With Indyfest coming up on the 16th of September, here are 10 reasons why it’s time to support independence for Wales… 1. Wales’ vote has no influence on who governs us Wales only elects 40 out of 650 MPs, which is 6% of the total. And before the next […]
Benjiman L. Angwin Napoleon called England ‘a nation of shopkeepers’. His failure to comprehend the power of the banking system is a small part of why he lost the war. Edward I knew their strength well. He went to Italy’s banks before planning a full-scale conquest of Wales. When Welsh […]
Huw L Williams Race has no basis in biological truth. There is no evidence that members of the human race belong to different ‘subspecies’, where particular groups might be thought to exhibit particular attributes. Yet the cultural myth and social reality of race continue to dominate the way in […]
Aled Gwyn Job The recent report from the Electoral Reform Society was a real wake-up call for Wales. Their analysis of the recent General Election Results in Wales revealed that nearly 70% of the votes cast here in the election were effectively wasted: a total of 1,063,000 out of […]
Sawel ap Harri Marxists have oft been accused of hypocrisy when it comes to supporting national movements. How could Marx and subsequent Marxists support national independence in some cases, such as the Unification of Germany in the 1840s, yet argue against the unification of Italy in the same period? […]
Joe Chucas We’re too small to make an impact in Westminster. Wales’ 40 MPs and 3 million inhabitants are easily overruled by the UK’s 650 MPs and a population of 60 million. As a result, we continue to accept the same pathetic ‘common sense’ conservatism that means allowing our […]
Abraham Somers Cocks For much of the 20th century, if someone had said ‘Welsh Wales’/Y Fro Gymraeg, it would have been clear what the speaker was referring to. In the 1960s and 1970s, there existed a continuous expanse of territory stretching from the top of Anglesey to the Bristol […]
Ifan Morgan Jones It was apparently C.S. Lewis who, on hearing about Tolkien’s plans for the Lord of the Rings, protested: ‘Not another f*****g elf!’ My first reaction is hearing of a petition to replace plans for Flint Castle’s now infamous Iron Ring with a giant dragon statue is […]
Ioan Phillips In the early hours of June 9th, as Mark Williams surrendered his seat to Plaid Cymru’s Ben Lake in Ceredigion, the party of David Lloyd George lost its final Welsh MP. The party has just one Liberal Democrat AM, the Education Secretary Kirsty Williams. Not since 1859 has […]
Neil McEvoy I grew up in the 1970s on a council estate with a memory of nearly everybody’s parents working. I became politicised during the 1980s with the miners’ strike, the teachers’ strikes, cuts and an anti-society right wing dogma ripping apart our communities. In my young world, Plaid Cymru […]