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Plaid Gomiwnyddol Cymru / The Communist Party of Wales
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For An Independent Socialist Republic of Wales! We fight for a Wales run by and for the workers - not the bosses

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The Bolshevik Revolution, when the workers overthrow the kings and capitalists of Russia, was an inspiration to Wales in 1917 and it continues to today.

The fight against kings and capitalists continue - ymunwch!
Image: a poster with red text and a painting in the middle of Lenin leading workers with banners behind. Text reads: 108 YEARS SINCE THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION THE REVOLUTION CONTINUES JOIN THE FIGHT FOR A SOCIALIST REPUBLIC TODAY!
November 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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The Wales we need is a Worker's Wales, one rebuilt by our hands, in our communities and workplaces.

Ymunwch! Join Us!
October 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Nid oes dim byd tebyg i "gyfiawnder Prydeinig".

There is no such thing as "British justice".
October 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Across Wales, our public footpaths are under threat from neglect and sabotage. 100 years ago, the working class trespassed to campaign for the right to access our countryside, now we must fight again.

This is why the Right To Roam is in our Rhaglan Rhyddhad / Programme For Liberation
October 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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From Euskal Herria to Éire to Palestine, resistance to occupation is no crime! Free them all! Free Euskal Herria!
September 28, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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We in the Welsh socialist republican movement echo the demands of Jardun Koordinadora and of the advanced working class of Euskal Herria for complete amnesty for all Basque political prisoners.
September 28, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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AMNESTY FOR ALL BASQUE POLITICAL PRISONERS!

Representatives from Plaid Gomiwnyddol Cymru and The Welsh Underground Network attended Gudari Eguna commemorations in Euskal Herria this Saturday.
September 28, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Anti-imperialism has never been a choice - it has always been a necessity.

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Plaid Gomiwynddol Cymru stands in solidarity with Yemen and with all comrades in the international struggle against imperialism. We condemn without reservation the terroristic actions of imperialism’s rabid dog, the zionist entity.
September 1, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Party statement on the terroristic murder of the Yemeni Prime minister by the zionist entity.

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YEMENI PRIME MINISTER MURDERED BY THE ZIONIST ENTITY In a cowardly act of terror, the zionist entity has assassinated Yemen’s Prime Minister Ahmed Ghaleb al-Rahwi along with nine other officials. This attack targeted the only nation that has acted upon its obligations under international law: to resist, by any means necessary, the ongoing genocide in Palestine. The ceaseless slaughter of the Palestinian people is held back only by direct resistance. While the rulers of the Arab nations, the client states of imperialism, turned their eyes away, the people and government of Yemen refused to look aside. They assumed their humanitarian duty, enforcing a blockade against israel despite the risks. Many have given their lives for this unwavering commitment to anti-imperialism The British state cannot be absolved of its complicity. It continues to arm Saudi Arabia and israel, providing the weapons used to bomb Yemen and to enforce the genocide in Gaza. Yet the Yemeni people endured, steadfast in their resistance. If even a fraction of us possessed their courage, the zionist entity would already lie dismantled, its ashes scattered to the wind.
September 1, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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On 16/08/2025, we gathered in Cardiff to commemorate the execution of Dic Penderyn for the role he played in the Merthyr Rising.

The following is an excerpt of the speech delivered by one of our comrades on behalf of Plaid Gomiwynddol Cymru and the Welsh Underground Network. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
August 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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August 16, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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A concrete understanding of the conditions of the working class is more imperative than ever, and the history of the Merthyr Rising emphasises the importance of a truly organised and politically guided working class to challenge Capital.

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August 16, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Why has the British state done this? Because of Palestine Action's clarity of message, courage in the face of power, and their unwavering solidarity with the Palestinian people made them a threat.

Read our statement here, and the articles in @yserengoch.cymru written by actionists.
It comes as no surprise to us that Westminster has voted to proscribe the direct action group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. With a vote of 385 to 26, the moral bankruptcy of Parliament is plain for all to see. This decision is made even more insidious by the inclusion of two neo-Nazi organisations in the same bill — a cowardly tactic designed to stifle opposition by forcing MPs to swallow a false equivalence or risk being painted as sympathetic to fascism. Palestine Action now finds itself listed alongside groups such as National Action and Al-Qaeda — an attempt to conflate anti-imperialist resistance, aimed at dismantling the British military-industrial complex, with white supremacist extremism and the most abhorrent sectarian violence. This repression must also be understood in the context of profit. For Israeli arms manufacturers like Elbit Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries, the ongoing genocide in Gaza has been a lucrative enterprise. Between 2023 and 2024, Israeli military spending surged by 65%, reaching $46.5 billion — among the highest per capita globally. This boom fuelled sharp profit increases for companies supplying weapons used against Palestinians. Foreign arms producers, particularly those manufacturing munitions and ordnance, have also benefitted. Palestine Action’s disruption of Elbit’s UK operations directly threatened both its infrastructure and the profit pipeline built on war and occupation. Anti-terror legislation is just one more tool in the arsenal of the imperialist state — no different from UK Labour’s attempts to silence art and music in solidarity with Palestine. Its weaponisation against those engaged in legitimate anti-imperialist resistance is a chilling reminder of how far capital will go to defend its interests. We stand firm in our support for Palestine Action We stand tall in the face of repression We stand shoulder to shoulder with all those who share in this struggle Yesterday, it was Irish resistance against British imperialism. Today, it is Palestine Action. Who will it be tomorrow?
July 3, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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UNDOD AM BYTH @palaction.bsky.social

We categorically reject the British state's proscription of Palestine Action. Make no mistake: this proscription is not a response to violence, but to effectiveness. Palestine Action disrupted, exposed, and embarrassed the state and its war profiteers.
Image description: A grey background, with black text. In the middle is a Welsh dragon, holding a Palestine flag, wearing a keffiyeh. In the bottom corner is the Hammer and Sickle of the Communist Party of Wales. Text reads: Solidarity With Palestine Action Resist The British State
July 3, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Plaid Gomiwnyddol Cymru (the Communist Party of Wales) condemns this latest escalation by imperialist powers in the Middle East.

The US, ‘israel’, and the UK are in a bloody pact to overthrow Iran to end the threat to the Zionist project and secure their raw resources.
Image description: a grey background, with an image in the middle of an explosion at night, with white text over the top. Above the image is red text, and below is a hammer and sickle and an arrow. Text reads: PLAID GOMIWNYDDOL CYMRU STATEMENT ON IMPERIALIST ESCALATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST "TRUMP'S HOLLOW PROMISES OF ENDING "FOREVER WARS" HAVE BEEN EXPOSED AS A GROTESQUE LIE. HE AND NETANYAHU CONTINUE TO PEDDLE DECEIT ABOUT AN IRANIAN NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM, ECHOING THE VERY SAME LIES BUSH & BLAIR USED TO JUSTIFY THE SLAUGHTER IN IRAQ. THE WORKING CLASS MUST SEE THROUGH THEIR PROPAGANDA, THIS IS IMPERIALISM IN ITS MOST NAKED, VIOLENT FORM." READ NOW ON OUR WEBSITE LINK IN BIO
June 23, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Plaid Gomiwnyddol Cymru offers sincere condolences and solidarity to the family and friends of Comrade Basavraj and the 27 Naxals martyred in Abujhmarh yesterday. These comrades were murdered by fascist Indian state forces while conducting operations in Chhattisgarh.
May 23, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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In the last week, the Zionist entity known as 'israel' has shelled schools and hospitals, slaughtering Palestinians in their drive to ethnically cleanse Gaza, whilst their settlements in the West Bank grow and push Palestinians off their land still.
Image description: The same tapestry is on this image, which blends into a modern photo of Gaza, bombed and shelled, with a long line of people walking through the ruins. The Nakba never ended—Israel’s genocidal campaign rages on, yet Palestinian resistance remains unbroken. The courage to confront empire—unblinking, unyielding—is the same courage we must nurture to dismantle it. It is only a matter of time before the techniques and technologies of subjugation, surveillance and slaughter that are being perfected upon the Palestinians turn inwards, towards those that fight imperialism within the nations that perpetrate it. Our banks and pensions fund and profit from the blood of Palestinians. Our companies research new and novel methods of murder. Our political institutions provide diplomatic cover so that the genocide can continue unabated. Today, we remember the past and present horrors of the Nakba. We affirm our unending solidarity with the Palestinian people and echo demands for a one-state solution: a multi-ethnic and secular Palestinian state. DISRUPT THE MACHINERY OF GENOCIDE Impede arms factories supplying Israel. Occupy complicit institutions. Strike & walk out to demand workplace divestment from Israel. BOYCOTT & DIVEST FROM APARTHEID Boycott complicit corporations. Pressure pension funds to divest from Israeli arms and tech. BUILD REVOLUTIONARY INFRASTRUCTURE Join anti-imperialist collectives. Fund Palestinian mutual aid. Educate through radical teach-ins, zines, and agitprop art. FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA, PALESTINE WILL BE FREE
May 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Today marks the 77th anniversary of the Nakba - the mass ethnic cleaning of Palestinians from their land by 'israel'.

The Nakba is not an event which happened, that we look back on and reflect over, the Nakba continues on to today.
Image Description: A black and white image of people walking with bags on their head and under their arms. In the foreground is a woman with a heavy bag over her head, and children to her left and right, with a man carrying a baby behind her. Text reads: The Nakba 1948-Today Plaid Gomiwnyddol Cymru Image description: Blocks of red text are on this page, with two images. The first image is cut across the screen and continues onto the next slide, and it is of people marching down a road with their personal belongings as they flee the Nakba. The second is a man looking at the camera, behind him is a city of tents of displaced people. Today, on the 15th of May, Palestinians and their allies across the world commemorate the Nakba - a day that marks the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their homelands at the hands of Zionist forces in 1948. Whilst forcible dispossession of Palestine had already been a common occurrence, May 15th 1948 saw the expiration of the British Mandate over Palestine and the inception of the zionist entity - The State of Israel. Between the period of 1947 to 1949, at least 530 villages were destroyed, roughly 15,00 slaughtered, and more than 750,000 were forcibly displaced. Image description: The same image stretches onto this page, of the displaced Palestinians. A second image is underneath of an elderly Palestinian man holding up a key, the key to his home that was taken by Zionists. The Zionist entity captured around 78% of the territory of Palestine - the remain 22% becoming the modern-day locations of genocide and dispossession: Gaza & the West Bank. Those who left their homes, believing their absence would be brief, carried their keys with them—a testament to their unbroken hope. Decades later, these keys endure, clutched in hands that still wait for the day the occupation falls, and they can turn them in their locks once more The Palestinian cause has united anti-imperialists across the globe. As communists—and as people of conscience—we recognize the imperative of a free Palestine: one forged by Palestinians, for Palestinians. Palestinian writer and revolutionary Ghassan Kanafani, a leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, declared: ‘The Palestinian cause is not a cause for Palestinians only, but a cause for every revolutionary… a cause of the exploited and oppressed masses in our era.’ His words endure as a rallying cry: solidarity with Palestine is a litmus test for collective emancipation. The British State is not a bystander but an active enabler of genocide, supplying arms and military intelligence to the Zionist slaughter—all in service to Capital’s insatiable drive for profit and imperial power. Our solidarity must begin here: dismantling the imperial core’s material support for genocide, while organising to rupture the capitalist and colonial systems we are enmeshed in.
May 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Calan Mai Hapus oddi wrth Blaid Gomiwnyddol Cymru! / Happy May Day from the Communist Party of Wales!

We send comradely greetings to the workers of the world this International Workers Day!

Mewn undod mae nerth!
May 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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April 24, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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April 24, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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In the 109th Year of the Republic, Plaid Gomiwnyddol Cymru pledges itself to the cause of Irish Freedom - the key to the revolution in Wales.
April 24, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Penblywydd Hapus Lenin!

Today marks the 155th anniversary of the birth of Lenin, who led the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution and laid the framework for communists across the world.

How should we honour him? ⬇️⬇️
Image description: a red image with white text and a photo in the middle. The photo is of Lenin. At the bottom is the hammer and sickle of the communist party of Wales - the sickle turns into a dragons tongue. Text reads; PENBLYWYDD HAPUS V.I. LENIN BORN THIS DAY 22 APRIL - 1870 VLADIMIR ILYICH LENIN Today, we honour Lenin, the inspiration of countless comrades internationally, on the day of his birth. He fought tirelessly against reformism in the socialist movement, condemning those who welcomed WWi. Lenin led the Bolsheviks in the overthrow of Tsarist Russia and the capitalist-imperialist restoration under Kerensky. How would Lenin approach the world in 2025? He would look at the European Union, and condemn "socialists" who advocate for membership, and accurately label it as an imperialist tool. He would urge us to use every weapon available to us, to raise the consciousness of the working class. Lenin would condemn the "socialists" who support the Labour Party, who attack the working class daily. THE TASK AHEAD Lenin often wrote of the tasks ahead of the workers. Today, what are they? In Wales, our first task is analysis of the material reality that we, the workers, face today. Our second task is to build a workers movement, one which can address the issues and provide real answers, not just slogans. Our final task is to strengthen this movement into one which can challenge state power and sharpen the movement into one which can strike when possible against the capitalist state, and secure working class liberation. Lenin would be saying... YMLAEN!
April 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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We must not let the ruling class "divide and conquer" our movement, we must stand together. This statement was written by trans and cis comrades together, in recognition of our shared struggle for workers liberation.
VICTORY FOR WHOM? The ruling is a gift to the "gender critical" movement. A wolf in sheep's clothing that cloaks its hatred in the language of feminism, but allies itself with conservatism - as seen in America. This is not feminism - this is fascism. These 'feminists' do not care about liberation. They care about borders, prisons, families as property and gender as discipline. This is not a bulwark against male violence but its accomplice. In America, anti-trans laws were immediately followed by the reversal of abortion rights. Women's liberation does not come from the exclusion of the trans community but from unity in intersectional struggle of the working class, all of us together: cisgender, transgender, and intersex. VICTORY FOR WHOM? The ruling is a gift to the "gender critical" movement. A wolf in sheep's clothing that cloaks its hatred in the language of feminism, but allies itself with conservatism - as seen in America. This is not feminism - this is fascism. These 'feminists' do not care about liberation. They care about borders, prisons, families as property and gender as discipline. This is not a bulwark against male violence but its accomplice. In America, anti-trans laws were immediately followed by the reversal of abortion rights. Women's liberation does not come from the exclusion of the trans community but from unity in intersectional struggle of the working class, all of us together: cisgender, transgender, and intersex. EXPEL THE BIGOTS To the shame of the socialist movement, we have allowed "socialists" to join our ranks who do not care for the working class, who are obsessed with our transgender comrades, who seek to warp us into being oppressors, not liberators. These "comrades" are easily spotted, often existing solely on the internet and in internal party meetings, never seen on pickets or in the community. Again, we say look at America, the anti-trans movement there has led to oppression against all women. Will our "comrades" hang their heads in shame as Britain takes the same path? Or will they continue to pathetically parrot anti-Marxist and transphobic lines? NOW MARCH! Attend your nearest protest and stand in solidarity with the trans community. SWANSEA Saturday 19th April 1PM Castle Square CARDIFF Monday 215 April 1PM Nye Bevan Statue Two posters are at the bottom of this, the one of the last is a raised fist with the colours of the trans flag, the one on the right is a crowd of people with flags with text over the top.
April 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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🚩🏳️‍⚧️ JOINT STATEMENT WITH @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru

This ruling is an attack on trans women and the trans community. Transgender people are a vulnerable section of the working class and we reject all attempts to dismiss and sideline this ruling as irrelevant to the working class struggle.
Image description: a white background with red text at the top, on the left of the text is a red hammer and sickle with a dragons tongue, on the right is a crossed over hammer and pickaxe. Underneath, there is an image of a trans flag flying with a hammer and sickle on it. Underneath that are three words, the first has a pink background, the middle has a white background, the third has a blue background. Text reads: PLAID GOMIWNYDDOL CYMRU WELSH UNDERGROUND NETWORK JOINT STATEMENT LIBERATION NOT BIGOTRY BRITISH NEUTRALITY The UK Supreme Court's ruling of April 16*h is a disgraceful assault by the British state upon the dignity, humanity, and rights of trans women. This is not the pursuit of justice. This is a calculated escalation of state violence, a ruling soaked in reaction, an act of patriarchal authoritarianism, executed under the pretence of safeguarding cis women but, in truth, exposing how little the capitalist state cares for any of us. The ruling was not impartial legal reasoning, but a show trial. Trans voices were silenced, a trans judge was denied the right to speak, and three of the four interveners are anti-trans bigots. The British state does not seek truth or equality, it seeks control. BIOLOGICAL TRUTH The truth is that womanhood cannot be reduced to mere biology, and certainly not biology at birth. As Marxists we understand that essentialism will confine swathes of society to poverty and oppression. Throughout history, powerful men have used "biology" to argue that the Irish are prone to alcoholism, Black Africans are able to withstand more pain, and women are weaker. And now, to the shame of us all, so-called feminists are claiming that trans women are guaranteed to be devious abusers and "biological women" are defined by chromosomes alone. The British state seeks to divide the working class, to impose biological essentialism on us all. Not in the name of equality but to entrench class domination. A SLIPPERY SLOPE This ruling will not protect women, it will harm them, especially those who are already most at risk. Trans women already face violence, poverty, medical neglect and housing insecurity. This worsens the oppression of trans women on the basis of biological essentialism. Already, the British Transport Police have already changed their policy so that a trans woman with a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC) will be searched by men. This decision was taken within 2 days of the ruling. This emboldens every landlord, boss, cop and bureaucrat who seeks to discriminate and exclude. It will not stop with trans women, it will further marginalise intersex people, non-binary people and any woman who does not conform to gender norms.
April 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM