Saturday 30 August 2014

The Duke of Beaufort - Robber of Welsh Land and Resources will meet ceremonial end on the Land of the Tarw Scotch - Remember Edward Morgan of the Scotch Cattle



SEE ALSO:

http://greatunrest2012.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/lord-somerset-duke-of-beaufort-absentee.html

http://greatunrest2012.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/august-campaign-on-mawr-duke-of.html

http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/after-1831-scotch-cattle-by-alan-jones.html

http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/remembering-execution-of-edward-morgan.html


STOP PRESS 31 AWST 2014: BEAUFORT REPRIEVED - SURPRISE STAY OF EXECUTION AFTER REPRESENTATION FROM PLAID CYMRU, FRIENDS OF THE EARTH AND GREEN PEACE WHOSE LAWYERS WON THEIR CASE ON GROUNDS OF AN UNREASONABLE AND CRUEL PUNISHMENT FOR AN ARISTOCRATIC ENGLISH GENTLEMAN AND 'ABSENTEE LAND LORD' WHO HAS DONE A LOT OF GOOD FOR WALES AND AT THIS MOMENT IS SUFFERING A BAD NECK STRAIN AFTER BEING BRUTALLY RESTRAINED BY GWERIN OWAIN AND TARW SCOTCH THUGS. IF THAT WAS NOT ENOUGH TO GET EMBASSY GLYNDWR INTO A LOT OF HOT WATER - THERE WAS ALSO THE THREAT OF THE FULL WEIGHT OF THE EU COURT OF 'HUMAN RIGHTS' BEING BROUGHT DOWN ON OUR HEADS. SORRY TO ALL THOSE FOLKS WHO WERE LOOKING FORWARD TO A NICE PATRIOTIC PICNIC AND HANGING OF A ROBBER BARON TODAY. Gethin. PS: PATRIOTS FOCUS ON 9th MIS MEDI - MIS GLYNDWR PROTEST AGAINST WIND FARMS AND WHERE YOU WANT TO JOIN A PROTEST PICKET OUTSIDE GRAND HOTEL, IVEY PLACE, ABERTAWE OR AT THE MYNYDD Y GWAIR WIND FARM - THIS BY FAR MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE OF THE MONTH, INTERESTING TO NOTE SHIPS HAVE BEEN PASSING UP THE SEVERN SEA TO SWANSEA DOCKS BRINGING TURBINES IN FOR PEN Y CYMOEDD, SEE LINKS - CAN ANYONE GET PHOTOS OF THE TURBINES BEING TRANSPORTED - SEND US SOME IF YOU CAN PLEASE!







Friday 29 August 2014

A Welshman addresses the NATO Summit at Celtic Manor - And When You Pray - An Anti War Poem by Niclas Y Glais



Thomas Evan Nicholas (6 October 1879 – 19 April 1971), who used the bardic name "Niclas y Glais"

And when you pray and pray I cannot listen,
Your silky hands, so steeped in blood, I dread,
From holy altar's, easeful shade I hasten
When on the upward steps I hear your tread.
You dress your mealy words in subtle clothing,
You bless the dogs of war with priestly cant,
I loathe you with an everlasting loathing,
Arch-hypocrite and royal sycophant.
Humanity in need can wait no longer,
And you like foolish mummer on bent knee –
The blood and fat of ox won't feed my hunger –
While untold corpses litter hill and lea.
Your paws are red with blood, you fleshy knave,
Who panting runs with beast of primal cave.



Nicholas of Glais, one of the sonnets written while he was in Swansea and Brixton prisons for his anti-war activities.


SEE ALSO

http://greatunrest2012.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/remembering-niclas-y-glais-heart-and.html

THE STORY OF NICLAS Y GLAIS OPPOSITION TO THE FIRST WORLD WAR


Sunday 24 August 2014

NO - TA, N.A.T.O : First Minister Carwyn Jones surrenders Wales to Foreign Powers



Thanks to David Lawrence for his poster on NATO.

No Ta - is a Welsh way of saying no thanks.

Carwyn Jones is Wales First Minister who should be saying No Ta to NATO.

Friday 8 August 2014

Whatever Happened to Hughesovka ? yesterdays Donetsk by Gwyn Alf Williams



Yr Aflonyddwch Mawr remembers Hughesovka and the new Russia and of course our Gwyn Alf Williams

Solidarity with the working people of Donetsk today from Yr Aflonyddwch Mawr who are under fire from Ukrainian Oligarchs like Poroshenko and Kolomoisky and betrayed by Akmatov and the Fascist infested Ukrainian State.

Donetsk and its hard working people will rise again, its dreams will come true.

Film about the Hughesovka story.


Tuesday 5 August 2014

Remembering Niclas y Glais : The Heart and Soul of the Anti War Opposition by Nickglais


                                                             Niclas y Glais


 "Not one public figure … including ministers was a pacifist. I travelled a lot through Wales talking about peace and correcting some of the deceitful remarks that were being made about the cause of war."

Niclas y Glais


In January 1914, Niclas y Glais ( Niclas of Glais) left Glais near Swansea  - a village whose name he would carry for the rest of his life  - for the Cardiganshire village of Llangybi, to be pastor of two Welsh Independent churches, Ebeneser, Llangybi and Llanddewi Brefi.

By August 1914 the quiet was shattered even in  peaceful Llangybi by the outbreak of the First World War.

At once Niclas y Glais turned his efforts to condemning the War.


In Part 1 of this study we showed how War emotions and anti German feelings were running at fevour pitch in Wales as well as the rest of Britain and no public figures or Church leaders in Wales opposed the War with  Germany, so it took strong moral and personal courage to take the stand against the war that Niclas y Glais did in 1914.

In November 1914 Orders in Council from the Government forbid publishing anything against the War.

‘forbid publishing anything that is likely to retard recruiting or reflect in any way on the actions of the Government with regard to the war. The penalty is suppression of publication and
confiscation.


However this did not stop Niclas y Glais writing a series of articles on ‘The Unjust War’ in The Merthyr Pioneer.

In 1915 his close friend Keir Hardie died,  it is said his heart broken by working class acceptance of all the anti German  hysteria and the emotional Jingoism of the time. Kier Hardie was booed at public meetings beacuse of his anti War stance.

Niclas y Glais  preached the sermon in the memorial service for Kier Hardie at Siloa Chapel in Aberdare in 1915 , with police in the congregation taking notes.


Niclas y Glais was then summoned for sedition under the notorious Defence of the Realm Act (DORA) for his sermon.

In the end the  Home Office refused to proceed with the prosecution has it was a service to commemorate a prominent pacifist and socialist.


                                                       


Again in  1918 the authorities used DORA to bring him before the Lampeter magistrates for a
sermon he had preached in his own church but he succeeded in getting the case dismissed by
showing that the comments which caused offence were in fact a quotation from Philip
Gibbs.

At the beginning of January 1918 Nicholas as a minister of religion received a circular from the National War Aims Committee requesting him to engage his congregation on a certain appointed Sunday in a 'Day of Prayer' to the 'Lord of Hosts' for his blessing on the war effort. He refused.
"I cannot subscribe to a single item set forth in your letter; and I think it is only right that you should know that. When I think of Mesopotamia and the Dardanelles and Ireland, I cannot admit that God has been with us. When I think of the treatment meted out to the Conscientious Objectors, and to the Peace Workers, I cannot ask the Father of all men to bless the methods of the country. I believe that Germany did as much as any country to avoid the war in 1914; and I know that Germany has done more than any country to bring the war to an end. I feel it my duty to let you know that the desire for peace is very strong; and the churches have seen their mistake in committing themselves to the War Aims of the War Cabinet without knowing what those aims were"
On Sunday, 29 September 1918, Niclas y Glais and W. C. Anderson M.P. were to address a
meeting of ILP at  Mountain Ash but the meeting had to be abandoned because of the trouble
caused by discharged soldiers, whose abuse included such sentiments as ‘You would let the
Germans come here’ and ‘Get these conscientious objectors off the stage or else we will come
down and do it.’

A certain Captain Lindsay who saw it has his mission in life to "get"  Niclas y Glais in October 1918 sent a dossier on the Special Branch containing transcripts of some of Niclas’s recent speeches in Glamorgan, claiming that he found sedition in the speaker’s abuse of Prime Minister Lloyd George, his description of King George V as  ‘an individual who has not sufficient talent to be Chairman of a Parish Council’ 'and his attacks on the whole capitalist system.

However, this was overtaken by the event of the Armistice of 11 November 1918


Niclas y Glais  received an invitation from the ILP to stand as a candidate in the Aberdare constituency in the 1918 election. His opponent was a local man who had won the seat in succession to Keir Hardie.

Stanton stood for the group called the National Democratic Party (NDP) Niclas y Glais  was reportedly mistreated. He won 6,229 votes to Stanton's 22,824, a majority of 16,595.

During this period Niclas also had been active in organising the Cardiganshire lead miners and the
establishment of  an Agricultural labourers Union in North Pembrokeshire and Cardigan in 1918.

He resigned from the religious ministry in 1918 and established himself as a dentist in Pontardawe and by 1920 was one of those present that founded the Communist Party in Wales. 

Niclas y Glais was a spokeman for the Gwerin the Folk or Common People of Wales and not for the Crachach to which everything Welsh is just an opportunity for personal ambition - Lloyd George epitomises this opportunist current in Welsh Life national life which on the back of Welsh issues climb into politics but when London calls shed Wales for the Empire or the British in line with the Cymmrodorion in the 18th century.

It is time we realised that in Wales the real enemies are not the English but the Crachach who Speak Wales or Welsh, but Practice England and English .

Just like the First World War gave us in the Labour Party of Socialists in words but Imperialists in deeds - Social Imperialism.

Niclas y Glais connected to the Gwerin and built his politics on a solid base and hated the pro Imperialist Crachach and the Social Imperialists  - we would do well to emulate him today.

PS Thanks to Paul Sambrook for this note :

In December 1914 Niclas y Glais published a letter the newspapers refused to print, along with a revolutionary anti-war poem entitled "Dros Eich Gwlad" ("For Your Country"). His letter included these words (translated from the Welsh);

"This isn't the peoples' war, but the war of the ruling class. The only thing the people will get is death in the trenches, and a bill for the cost. I do not know how you can sleep at night, knowing that men are laying in the trenches, each one of them the son of a mother, raised as lovingly as you were raised. This suffering has been caused by half-a-dozen rulers. And you stand up for their rights.
"I believe in war; I have fought wars and intend to do so again; but I do not believe in fighting WITH men; I have been too busy fighting FOR men. I refuse to allow Sir Edward Grey and Kitchener to tell me who my enemies are. I refuse to be silent in a crisis such as this, for those who are silent allow our rulers to get away with too much. This is an unjust war and unjust men are driving it forward. The dearest sons of our land are turned into killers to realise the plans of tyrants. I have no enemies in this world, and if I did have an enemy, the Founder of my religion would want me to pray for him and love him. I will let the future pass judgement on the position I have taken with regard to this war."


Monday 4 August 2014

The Great Unrest Salutes the Neither King Nor Kaiser Campaign of Scottish Comrades


YR Aflonyddwch Mawr  gives Red Salute to the Neither King nor Kaiser campaign of Scottish Comrades.

Neither King Nor Kaiser is a campaign to highlight the political opposition to World War One.
Mission

2014 marks the centenary of the start of World War One. The so called ‘war to end all wars’ was in fact a man made disaster for humanity. The UK state are beginning events which David Cameron describes as similar to ‘Diamond jubilee celebrations’ and will promote a ‘national spirt’. These celebrations of war are being organised by retired generals and defence secretaries and is costing £55 million. All of this as part of a creeping militarism in society. All aimed at promoting the UK state narrative and British ideology.

Instead Neither King Nor Kaiser is a campaign to highlight opposition to World War One. In particular we will promote the writings and campaigning against the war by James Connolly and John Maclean. Through political, educational and cultural events and engagements we will promote an alternative narrative. One based on working class people not states.

The campaign will also include the publication of the WW1 writings of Connolly and Maclean, published by Cowgate Press in October 2014.

The campaign can be contacted at neitherkingnorkaiser@gmail.com










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