Saturday 28 June 2014

George Galloway's Shame : In Defence of Hugh MacDiarmid and his anti Fascism by Nickglais




                                                               Hugh MacDiarmid


"When London was burning under the Blitz, their ( Scotland's) poet laureate (Hugh) MacDiarmid said: “London is burning, I don’t care.” They said it was England’s war"

George Galloway speaking at  meeting sponsored by the right wing Spectator Magazine on 26th June 2014.

George Galloway, someone who we agree with on many working class anti racist issues has decided to smear and savage Hugh MacDiarmid ,Scottish Poet and Communist at a meeting bought and paid for by the right wing magazine the Spectator on the 26th June 2014 to advance the Unionist case of the British establishment..

Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish Communist and one of Scotland's finest poets is dead and cannot answer the slander of his indifference to Fascism and War from beyond the grave - however we at the Aflonyddwch Mawr  have exposed the traitor class of the British Establishment  up until 1940 and their views on Fascism here :

"Indeed early in 1940/late in 1939 prominent member of the British establishment Lord Lloyd of Dolobrian , later a minister in Churchill's war cabinet , wrote a pamphlet entitled 'The British Case' , which explicitly rejected the notion of a war against Fascism ( a concept which later became a necessary part of mobilising the population for Total War after the fall of France ) and this rather than just reflecting Lord Lloyd's viewpoint , had a preface written by the aforementioned Lord Halifax, then Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. In 'The British Case' Lord Lloyd writes:

"Our most ancient and faithful ally , Portugal , enjoys today greater prosperity than ever before in the modern world under the wise but authoritarian government of senhor Salazar. The government of Poland itself was definitely authoritarian . Above all , the Italian genius has developed , in characteristic Fascist institutions, a highly authoritarian regime which , however , threatens neither religious nor economic freedom , or the security of other European nations." (12a)

It was not Communist Hugh MacDiarmid that was indifferent to Fascism in 1940 but the British State and its establishment that George Galloway now defends by slandering and smearing one of Scotland's true anti Fascist sons while at the same time speaking at a meeting paid for by the Spectator Magazine the voice of  the Lord Halifax's in the 21st century.

George, the Spectator Magazine is not the friend of the working class and our late beloved Poet Hugh MacDiarmid was - your speech has been hailed by the venal British Press has a new height in your oratorical skills  has you insulted and smeared what is good and great in Scotland a poet and a socialist who loved the working class - Hugh MacDiarmid.

PS : George  - Wilson Harris, Editor of the Spectator in 1930's was a supporter of appeasement and the Munich Agreement.

MacDiarmid’s four-page pamphlet, `Scotland; and the Question of a Popular Front Against Fascism and War’, argued publicly for an independent Scotland.




Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Grieve)

Hugh MacDiarmid was the pen-name of the poet Christopher Murray Grieve and the name by which he is generally remembered. A declared Communist continously from the late 1920s, he was actually a member of the Party `only’ from 1934-38 and 1957-78.

As MacDiarmid, he led a Scottish literary revival, aiming to engender cultural self-confidence amongst Scots as apolitical weapon. He adopted the use of a form of Scottish dialect, ‘Lallans’, which was a borrowing from many different way Scots spoke at different times and in different places but his poetry was thoroughly modernistic in form.
 
Born on 11th August 1892 in Dumfriesshire, he was influenced towards radicalism by his postman father and towards literature by virtue of the family’s residence in the local, where his mother was the caretaker. After the death of his father in 1911, Christopher Grieve turned to journalism. He served in the Royal Army Medical Corps from 1915 to 1920 and then returned to journalism as the editor of the Montrose Review.
 
Over the next few years he began to write and publish books and poetry, to the extent that he began to become seriously noted. Although he also wrote poetry in English, much of his best work is written in Lallans. `A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle’ (1926) is an epic critique of imposed `Scottish’ culture, with its `twee' pretensions contrasted to the reality of social deprivation. MacDiarmid’s objection was against a subtle yet powerful form of cultural imperialism and inevitably he opted for a political route to express this, becoming attracted to Communism but imposing on it his own very Scottish gloss.
 
He was a founding member of the Scottish National Party in 1928, but was expelled in 1933 for his committed communism, already expressed openly in the first of his `Hymns to Lenin’, which appeared in 1931 and was greatrly influential upon up-and-coming poets and sometime Communist such as Stephen Spender and others. Yet MacDiarmid found himself also expelled from the Communist Party after four years. Needless to say, MacDiarmid was a cantankerous personality, as well as a gifted one!
 
MacDiarmid was first noted in MI5 files in 1931, when his name was mentioned by a group of Communist journalists meeting in a social setting at a Fleet Street pub and reported by an informant. Soon after, an MI5 informant reported a speech by MacDiarmid in which he said Scotland "did not end at the Cheviots but that Lancashire was its rightful boundary". Quite how the reportage of juicy items such as this helped the British Empire remains quite elusive!
 
He formally joined the Communist Party in London in the summer of 1934 but increasingly found himself at odds with the Party’s leadership, since he was drawn to John MacLean's earlier position of an independent Scottish Workers Republic. His poem, 'John MacLean (1879-1923)' had been first published in September 1933. By the time MacDiarmid came to write 'Red Scotland' in April 1935, he was in full agreement with MacLean.
 
He was taken to task by the supremely honest Peter Kerrigan, a man of enormous integrity but a firm disciplinarian. In the Daily Worker of 25th November 1935, Kerrigan differed with MacDiarmid’s opinion that an imperialist war could lay the basis for a separate Scottish revolution. He also called on MacDiarmid to dissociate from the `social credit’ economic and taxation redistribution theories of Major C H Douglas with which he was enamoured.
 
In June 1936 the Scottish Party’s Secretariat began a correspondence of more than twenty letters to MacDiarmid over the next three years. But he persistently avoided meeting the leadership of these issues. (His residence in the Shetlands (from 1933 to 1942) hardly assisted in this.) MacDiarmid’s four-page pamphlet, `Scotland; and the Question of a Popular Front Against Fascism and War’, argued publicly for an independent Scotland. The sentences that the Communist Party took most exception to led to his expulsion: “The betrayal of John MacLean's line by the Communist Party of Great Britain has resulted in a loss to Scottish Socialism beyond all reckoning. Even William Gallagher, MP, who was primarily responsible for it, admits this in his autobiography, Revolt on the Clyde.'
 
MacDiarmid was expelled by the unanimous decision of the Scottish District Committee and informed by letter in November 1936. In March 1937, he appealed against his expulsion and received a conciliatory reply from the party centre in London. MacDiarmid was re-admitted to the party by the Appeals Commission during the Congress in May.

In return for re-admission he was asked to submit the manuscript of any book that might touch on Party policy to the District leadership for consideration.

But, in June 1938, the first issue of his `The Voice of Scotland’ appeared, MacDiarmid had, by this act, made it clear that nothing that he wrote would be subject to Communist Party discipline.
 
MacDiarmid continued to produce significant literary work and, almost two decades later, on 20 February 1957 he was informed by Gordon McLennan, then Scottish Secretary, that the Scottish Committee of the Party had decided unanimously to support his re-admission, he accepted and remained a member until his death, even standing in a parliamentary election for the Party.
 
Nothing about MacDiarmid was ever muted and the background to his becoming a Communist parliamentary candidate was no exception! This position arose out of the election to the Tory Party leadership of Sir Alec Douglas-Home, at a time when the Conservative Party held a majority in Parliament and formed the government.

He had been a peer and was required to resign from the Lords and stand in a by-election in November 1963 so as to obtain a Commons seat from which to become Prime Minister. The then exceedingly Tory constituency of Kinross and West Perthshire was vacated for him.
 
Christopher Grieve was outraged not only at the deference and adherence to archaic ways that all this implied. He was driven especially by the supine attitude of the BBC towards Douglas-Home’s `emergence’ as Tory leader and his effective `coronation’ as Prime Minister – in a Scottish seat at that - to seek legal redress. 
 
In a celebrated case (Grieve v Douglas-Home), he challenged the election, seeking it declared void by virtue of a breach of Section 63 of the Representation of the People Act, in that due balance had not been given to all candidates in the by-election.

The long-term result was the care that broadcasters make to at least mention the names of all candidates in all elections covered by them.
 
Home went on to lead the Tory Party in the subsequent general election but his image, not aided by Grieve’s challenge, was a factor in the defeat of the Tories and the forming of a Labour government by Harold Wilson, who milked the evident disenchantment with the old school tie image of the Tories for all it was worth. Home was replaced in the first ever formal election of Tory by Ted Heath. MacDiarmid, as Christopeher Grieve, stood in the Kinross seat in that general election as a Communist Party candidate, a hopeless but endearingly brave endeavour.
 
In all, MacDiarmid published over thirty books and his collected works run to 1,500 pages He live in Biggar from 1951 until his death on September 9th 1978; he was buried in Langholm, where a memorial sculpture now stands.
 
Sources: BBC Scotland; National Archives; John Manson `Cencrastus’ CHNN, No 12 Spring 2002; http://www.slainte.org.uk

http://www.grahamstevenson.me.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=365:hugh-macdiarmid-christopher-grieve&catid=13:m&Itemid=114

See Also : http://greatunrest2012.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/red-dylan-social-vision-of-dylan-thomas.html

Wednesday 25 June 2014

Welsh Independence No ! Why Not ? by Gethin Ap Gruffydd



A Struggle for Welsh Independence is a long way away but still even a campaign will be hard going and to half way succeed we need to know what we are up against and ask ourselves how much will Plaid Cymru be to the fore and for instance how many of all those 'Grant Grabbers' at the recent 'Dinefwr Fest' will be on side as many 'Creatives' are aboard the Scots Campaign? An interesting first step maybe, would be getting some stars and various creatives plus of course 'Intellectuals' to pay for and sign a 'YES TO WELSH INDEPENDENCE' advert in Welsh Daily News papers or maybe Daily Wales web paper could invite such prior to the fourth coming Rally For Welsh Independence, Caerdydd?

Before a really radical serious Struggle for Welsh Independence' can be engaged in as Geoff Ifans 'Hawliau' constantly reminds us, like in Alba, Catalonia and Euskadi, it would be useful and illuminating to see if above and 'Y Crachach Newydd' are up front in the Vanguard or well to the rear still in the trenches of the 'Arts Council of Wales' etc making a quite cultural creativity life preferable to the pain of Patriotism?

Do read your history, not least on the corruption of the Bards to support the Richmond Rubbish 'British Protestant Reformation' at two Caerwys Eisteddfods, take it from there, see my ANGHOFIO blog to really know what we will be up against UNCLE TAFFY TREACHERY AND MORE SUCH TREACHERY, not just Cerys Mathews, the Welsh Traitors are Legion. Just remember Investiture' 69, not much has changed. Gethin.

  




fb FANTASY OR EMBASSY GLYNDWR REALITY? - THE CHOICE IS YOURS BUT FACE FACT IF YOU WANT WELSH INDEPENDENCE YOU MUST REALLY WORK AT IT AND SO FOR STARTERS THAT MEANS DELIVERING NEXT YEAR AND IN YEARS AFTER WHAT YOU MISERABLY FAILED TO DO THIS YEAR COMMEMORATE AND CELEBRATE THE GREATEST DAY IN OUR NATIONS HISTORY AND WITH THE WAY THINGS ARE GOING 21 MEHEFIN 1404 WILL BE THE ONLY 'INDEPENDENCE DAY' WE WILL EVER HAVE, FULL STOP!

I THINK NATIONALIST ADDICTION TO DEFEAT AS SHOWN IN RALI CILMERI AS THEIR 'SHOW STOPPER' SAYS IT ALL AS DOES THIS RATHER SAD DISPLAY OF WELSH NATIONALISTS WINDING THEMSELVES UP ON THE SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE REFERENDUM 'YES' CAMPAIGN, ALL VERY WELL BUT WHEN INSTEAD OF 'DREAMING OF FREEDOM' IN SCOTLAND, CATALONIA AND EUSKADI ARE YOU ACTUALLY GOING TO FIGHT FOR IT IN OUR COUNTRY. HOPEFULLY, THAT 'RALLY FOR WELSH INDEPENDENCE' DOWN IN 'BAE CAERDYDD' WILL BE MORE THAN FLUFFING UP 'CYBER NAT' FEATHERS BUT THE BEGINNING OF THE END FOR ENGLISH RULE IN WALES WHICH YOU CAN BRING A LITTLE CLOSER BY TAKING THE FIGHT UP ON TO THE HILLS OF MAWR THIS AWST TO GIVE THE 'UNHOLY ALLIANCE' OF ENGLISH ARISTOCRATIC 'BEAUFORT BUNCH' AND RWE ECONOMIC NEO COLONIAL CAPITALISM SOME RADICAL CONFRONTATION AFTER WHICH TAKE THE STRUGGLE TO AN INDEPENDENCE RALLY IN RUTHIN AND ON TO THE VYRNWY ESTATE IN MEDI TO OPEN UP A 'SECOND FRONT' AGAINST SEVERN TRENT AND 'UNITED UTILITIES'.

NOW THAT' IS HOW TO KICK OFF AN INDEPENDENCE STRUGGLE !



ASAP: Get ready for 12 July Cardiff Bay Independence Rally, loads of Independence Placards and Banners needed plus of course as many 'Baneri Glyndwr' as possible to fly in face of the 'WAGGERS', forget the 'Richmond Rag' as that is too associated now with English Royals visiting our Country, means nothing as far as our National Independence struggle is concerned but Baneri Glyndwr will say it big time. If you do not have one, then order one now from sianifan@sky.com
 
 
 



Gethin.

PS:  The Embassy Glyndwr fb will UNPLUG during evening of 1 July 2014 also I shall DISCONNECT this email Platform, we all need to go BACK TO BASICS!

And as I think of my Wales - An ache comes to my heart -The people aren't man enough - To demand her freedom



Geiriau:

Rwy'n cofio Llywelyn, byddinoedd Glyndwr
Yn ymladd dros ryddid ein gwlad
Ond caethiom ni eto, dan bawen y Sais
Mor daeog, mor llwm ein hystad

Ac wrth feddwl am fy Nghymru
Daw gwayw i 'nghalon i
Dyw'r werin ddim digon o ddynion - bois
I fynnu ei rhyddid hi

Wrth edrych o'th gwmpas fe weli
Fod yr heniaith yn cilio o'r tir
Ni chlywir yr un acen a ni chlywir yr un gair
O iaith ein cyn dadau cyn hir

Ac wrth feddwl am fy Nghymru
Daw gwayw i 'nghalon i
Dyw'r werin ddim digon o ddynion - bois
I fynnu ei rhyddid hi

Mae argae ar draws Cwm Tryweryn
Yn gofgolofn i'n llwfrdra ni
Nac anghofiwn ddewrder yr hogiau prin
Aeth i garchar y Sais drosom ni

Ac wrth feddwl am fy Nghymru
Daw gwayw i 'nghalon i
Dyw'r werin ddim digon o ddynion - bois
I fynnu ei rhyddid hi

Disgynnodd yr iau ar ein gwarae
Ni allwn ni ddianc rhag hon
Y mae arial y Celt yn byrlymu'n ein gwaed
A fflam Glyndwr dan ein bron

Ac wrth feddwl am fy Nghymru
Daw llawenydd i'n nghalon i
Os nad yw'r werin yn ddigon
Rhaid i ni ddod yn ddynion
I fynnu ei rhyddid hi...


Lyrics / English Translation:

I remember Llywelyn, the armies of Glyndwr
Fighting for the freedom of our country
But confined were we once more under the paw of the Englishman
So wicked, and so bleak our estate

And as I think of my Wales
An ache comes to my heart
The people aren't man enough
To demand her freedom

If you look around you'll see
That the ancient language is fading from the land
Soon no accent or word will be heard
Of the language of our fathers

And as I think of my Wales
An ache comes to my heart
The people aren't man enough
To demand her freedom

The damn across Cwm Tryweryn
Is testament to our weakness
And we will not forget the bravery of the boys
Who went to the Englishman's prison for us

And as I think of my Wales
An ache comes to my heart
The people aren't man enough
To demand her freedom

The young fell in battle
"We cannot escape from her"
The passion of the Celt boils in our blood
And the flame of Glyndwr in our hearts

And as I think of my Wales
A happiness comes to my heart
If the people aren't man enough
We must become men
To demand her freedom...

Monday 23 June 2014

Owain Glyndwr - Welsh National Liberation Guerrilla Leader.

 
 





Cefn Caer - Replica's of the Sword of the Nation and, Owain Glyndwr's Crown, also copy of Pennal Letter




Sunday 22 June 2014

Remembering Owain Glyndwr - June 21st - Machynelleth and Cefn Caer - Welsh Independence Day


Machynelleth

Machynlleth was the seat of Owain Glyndŵr's Welsh Parliament in 1404





Cefn Caer

The Occasional Residence of Owain Glyndwr





Crown of Glyndŵr, the symbol of our everlasting sovereignty as a nation


Copy of Pennal letter of Owain Glyndwr at Cefn Caer.
In the letter, Owain Glyndwr lays out his plans for establishing a Welsh Church and two Welsh universities, thus portraying a vision of a strong and autonomous Wales

                             See also : http://www.cefncaer.com/en/

Friday 20 June 2014

21 Mehefin 2014 - Cymanfaouedd Pobl Glyndwr Machynlleth - 21st June 2014



In this day ( 21st June ) of the year 1404, Owain Glyndŵr, lord of Glyndyfrdwy Cynllaith Owain and self-proclaimed prince of Wales, held his first Parliament in Machynlleth. His wish was a free country Wales - we fight for his dream to come true!

Ar y diwrnod hwn ym 1404, cynhaliodd Owain Glyndŵr, Arglwydd Glyndyfrdwy a Chynllaith Owain, a alwodd ei hun yn Dywysog Cymru, ei gynulliad cyntaf o Gymry ym Machynlleth. Ei ddymuniad oedd i Gymru fod yn wlad rydd - dewch inni ailymafael yn y freuddwyd honno heddiw!

En ce jour de l'an 1404, Owain Glyndŵr, seigneur de Glyndyfrdwy et Cynllaith Owain, prince autoproclamé du Pays de Galles, a tenu son premier Parlement à Machynlleth. Son souhait était un Pays de Galles libre - battons nous pour que son r...êve se réalise !




Geiriau:

Bore niwlog ar waun,
mae cynnwrf yn y goedwig -
swn cleddyfau yn taro yn y wawr.

Daw yr haul i sychu'r gwaed
ar gyrff y brwydwyr ffyddlon,
ambell un yn gelain ar y llawr.

Glyndwr, Glyndwr, 
ac mae lleisiau'r milwyr dewr yn codi stwr.
Glyndwr, Glyndwr, 
ac mae lleisiau'r milwyr dewr yn codi stwr.

Trwy y wlad mae'r fyddin gref yn ymladd a chynhyrfu,
clywch yr atsain ym mhob dref a chwm.
Does dim cwsg i'r rhai sydd nawr yn brwydro dros iawnderau.
Ceisio dial tynged pobloedd llwm.

Glyndwr, Glyndwr,
ac mae lleisiau'r milwyr dewr yn codi stwr.
Glyndwr, Glyndwr,
ac mae lleisiau'r milwyr dewr yn codi stwr.

Owain yn dy garchar, wyt ti'n aros am yfory
pan fydd cyrff dy filwyr eto'n rhydd?
Pan ddaw'r bore arwain fi drwy'r wlad a thrwy'r dinasoedd,
arwain fi i'r frwydr gyda thi.

Glyndwr, Glyndwr,
ac mae lleisiau'r milwyr dewr yn codi stwr.
Glyndwr, Glyndwr,
ac mae lleisiau'r milwyr dewr yn codi stwr.

English Translation:
A misty morning on the moor,
there's commotion in the forest - 
the sound of swords striking in the dawn. 

The sun will come to dry the blood
on the loyal fighters' bodies,
some lying dead on the ground.

Glyndwr, Glyndwr, 
and the brave soldiers' voices create uproar. 
Glyndwr, Glyndwr, 
and the brave soldiers' voices create uproar.

Through the land the strong army fights and agitates,
hear the echoes in each town and valley.
There is no sleep for those who are now fighting for rights.
Trying to avenge the fates of poor folk.

Glyndwr, Glyndwr, 
and the brave soldiers' voices create uproar. 
Glyndwr, Glyndwr, 
and the brave soldiers' voices create uproar.

Owain in your prison, are you waiting for tomorrow
when the bodies of your soldiers will once again be free?
When the morning comes lead me through the land and through the cities,
lead me to battle by your side.

Glyndwr, Glyndwr, 
and the brave soldiers' voices create uproar. 
Glyndwr, Glyndwr, 
and the brave soldiers' voices create uproar.

Saturday 7 June 2014

Should Scotland be an Independent Country? - Glasgow Skeptics



Yr Aflonyddwch Mawr says this debate shows a degree of maturity of the debate in Scotland with even the anti independence speakers showing some degree of accommodation to the idea of an Independent Scotland..

The largest open debate of the referendum campaign to date, hosted by Glasgow Skeptics.

Arguing for a Yes vote:
* Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh, Scottish National Party
* Patrick Harvie MSP, Scottish Green Party
* Jonathon Shafi, Radical Independence Campaign

Arguing for a No vote:
* Jackson Carlaw MSP, Scottish Conservatives
* Jackie Ballie MSP, Scottish Labour Party
* Willie Rennie MSP, Scottish Liberal Democrats

The debate was chaired by Dr Neil McGarvey of the University of Strathclyde.

See Also:

http://greatunrest2012.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/pete-ramand-author-yesthe-radical-case.html

http://greatunrest2012.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/the-scottish-independence-white-paper.html

http://greatunrest2012.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/red-salute-to-john-maclean-memorial_25.html

http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/james-connollys-birthday-is-best.html


Wednesday 4 June 2014

Yr Aflonyddwch Mawr says time for solidarity with Brittany NOW!



The Breton press are reporting that in France's regional boundary changes proposals there will be no Breton reunification, the current Breton region will stay the same while it is proposed that southern Brittany/ Loire Atlantique is retained by the Pays de Loire region.

However, the debate is not over. Apart from numerous negative economic side effects the move will act to undermine the growth of Breton-medium education in Loire Atlantique.
 
Breton leader Christian Troadec said: "This is a new blow to the reunification of Brittany.. political courage would have been, under the land reform, to have an immediate end to this separation decided by the Vichy regime and Marshal Petain. Nantes in Brittany... has been claimed and reaffirmed by the Bretons in the five departments at every visit, every survey!

"The future of Britain has again been decided by technocrats in an office in Paris... Paris has once again butchered Brittany.. With 5 departments, we would have counted more than 4.5 million people and could talk to other European states or countries like Scotland, Catalonia, the German landers ...
 
Our economic development capacity would have seen a tenfold increase. Our jobs and our standard of living too."

To help oppose the move and to support reunification please write asap to Mr Hollande: http://www.elysee.fr/ecrire-au-president-de-la-republique/

You can sign the petition on the Bretagne Réunie website here:  http://www.bretagne-reunie.org/soutenir/signez-la-charte/

Equally you can contact the collective 44=BZH and ask how you can help: http://44breizh.com


Source: http://nblo.gs/XoJjt

Tuesday 3 June 2014

Welsh Independence Struggle - A new initiative ? by Gethin Ap Gruffydd




Just more meaningless fb bravado and a rather pathetic 'knee jerk' response to a post Euro Election disaster for Plaid Cymru as what else would you call the advance of UKIP an 'English Nationalist Party' into a broad sweep across our Eastern Border Lands and possibly now standing ready to advance into the South all together our old medieval 'Marcher Wallia' or if you wish 'Anglicized Wales', Plaid Cymru holds up their successes in the West, that old 'Pura Wallia' otherwise seen by some as 'Cymru Cymraeg' but you know why all this is?

It is largelly down to fact that Plaid Cymru 'Cultural Nationalism' is quite cohesive and strong in those parts due to a verity of historical and contemporary reasons.

Not least a modern Media based 'Collective Cultural Memory' as well as an old Religious 'Collective Cultural Memory' made politically successful much due to above.

But this is not so in 'Anglicized Wales' much missing out on a broad historical 'Collective Memory' and having lost a Social and largely Socialist 'Collective Memory' as for any contemporary Media produced 'Collective Memory' that on whole perpetuated a Sports 'Collective Memory' aka the 'Rugby Nation'.

Other than the above as we know few Welsh People of 'Anglicised Wales' read Welsh Newspapers or watch TV Welsh News, then of course there is the 'hot potato' of another English 'Mewnlifiad' on the way and being pushed our way by what UKIP raises fears of in England (a letter in WM yesterday touched on this).

Whatever, other than the above huge problems that would undermine any future struggle for Welsh Independence, we have the unbelievable failure of Plaid Cymru to face a very grim political future and not coming up with any solutions or get to grip with the fact that their 'Devolution Dilettantism' and 'New Age Green Agenda' aka 'Green Print' has got nowhere but simply added to the decline of a real radical struggle for Welsh Independence over the latter years of the 'New Millenium' and it does not appear if the leadership gives an hoot as it's 'Suits' and 'Careerists' both Political and Cultural go on their merry way leading us nowhere other than to watch over in years to come the demise of Wales as it becomes 'West Britain' and EUUK 'Corporate Colony Cymru'.

The only ones to be in the slightest moved are those we may call the fb' Fringe' and those who still regard themselves as 'Nationalists' still Plaid Cymru members, a number of these are  squealing with concern all of a sudden about 'Welsh Independence' but where were they when in recent times a Welsh Independence Party was set up to be then brought down by WECTU Ways?

Indeed those squealing now are probably doing so from the fence sitting splinters in their bums.

Whatever, there as come out of the Plaid Cymru Cardiff Bay Closet calls for a 'Rallies for Welsh Independence Initiative' which at first sight appears to be a good idea but is it?

Maybe so but only if it takes aboard suggestions made by Sian Ifan of Embassy Glyndwr in Galwad Glyndwr (see link here).

So far, I will go so far as saying that we should all support this 'New Independence Initiative' but the 'Movers' of this need to be more clarified as to what they are exactly up to and where indeed are they heading towards.

Thus the recent Euro Election should really have been an huge wake up call and you should at last be smelling the Coffee and if your really concerned then you will be in Machynlleth on 21 Mehefin 'Dydd Sofraniaeth' to at very least informally discuss this so called 'New Independence Initiative', I would go so far as to say that it's movers and shakers' need to hire a room in Machynlleth as a Platform from which they can explain publicly just exactly what are their 'Independence Intentions'.

As for myself and Sian this politics we will leave to others as we have more than enough on our plate as the Fight to Defend Mawr this Awst plus an huge pile of Archive Work and some unfinished business but we will support any worth while way forward to Welsh Independence as long as it's Fight Not Flight!

In main our  contribution will be working towards the restoration of Senedd Glyndwr - Cenedl Cymru Rydd 2016 and how will that be done, you will see in due course.

hwyl! Gethin.

see also : http://galwadglyndwr.blogspot.co.uk/


Monday 2 June 2014

Yr Aflonyddwch Mawr - The Great Unrest Salutes the Merthyr Revolt 1- 7th June 1831



They have talked of Merthyr Tydfil
wherever men were free

To honour those who toiled and died
for human liberty

And men have told her troubled tale
to spur the sons of men

When hopes were faint or flagging,
to lift their hearts again

by Idris Davies