The first red flag. Contemporary caricature of workers dipping a sheet in
lambs blood..
Y
Maniffesto Comiwnyddol
Welsh translation of the founding document of Marxism,
translated by W.J. Rees from the German in 1948 for the centenary if its publication.
Originally published by the Communist Party of Great Britain, this is the
first republication, with a short introduction and minor editorial corrections.
The Merthyr Rising of 1831. When workers armed themselves and took power.
Usually dismissed in English working class histories, the Merthyr rising was the first working class insurrection in Britain where workers staged an armed revolt and held Merthyr against the authorities for a week.
The
Chartist march on Newport, 1839- a workers uprising in the Valleys.
On
November 4th 1839, 170 years ago, the Chartist Rising in Newport ended in
bloodshed. 30 Chartists were killed and many more wounded by soldiers while
attempting to storm the Westgate Hotel. Never since has the military killed
more civilians on British soil.
Dave
Reid explains the background to one of history's first workers’ insurrections
Nid
oes Bradwyr yn y ty hwn. The great North Wales quarry strikes
1896-1903
The series of battles almost literally to the death between workers and owners
in the North Wales quarrying industry. Commemorated in a pamphlet by Iain
Dalton
Fersiwn Cymraeg
English version
Penyberth
1936.
If
it were possible to date the appearance of Welsh Nationalism as a political
force rather than a tiny group of reactionary academics, that date would be
the date of the 'terrorist' attack on the bombing school being set up on the
Lleyn peninsula.
a
brief note by Geoff Jones
When
we were miners
A
new book by Ian Isaac covering the NUM strike of 1984-85 in South Wales
Review
by Alec Thraves
