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Plaid Gomiwnyddol Cymru / The Communist Party of Wales

@communists.cymru

For An Independent Socialist Republic of Wales! We fight for a Wales run by and for the workers - not the bosses https://linktr.ee/plaidgomiwnyddolcymru

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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 11h ago

The Welsh Underground Network's Statement Regarding the EHRC's Anti-Trans Guidance

Page two is titled "SOLIDARITY MUST MEAN SOMETHING" with an image of the Transgender flag on its lonesome. There are three paragraphs of text underneath this image that read:

"When a minority section of the working class comes under attack it is the duty of the whole class to rally around them.

Cis people thus have a responsibility to actively aid the struggle of trans people - not just with words but with deeds.

Trans people face a crisis of segregation but also a crisis of unemplyoment, housing and healthcare access. Back up your statements of support with real material support for your trans co-workers, neigbours, friends & family."

In bold at the bottom of the page, is a call to action "Stand together, resist segregation, do not comply."

The footing of the page are the WUN's social media links and website link.

Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · last wk.

WUN members have been hard at work at the Cefn Fforest Miners Institute this weekend. We're committed to making this new community centre a real success, not just as a social hub but as a place for workers to organise.

Volunteers posing with tools in a back alley they cleared of rocks.

Volunteers posing with WUN and PGC flags.

Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · last wk.

Welsh Underground Network's statement on the ongoing wildfires.

Plaid Gomiwnyddol Cymru / The Communist Party of Wales @communists.cymru · 2w ago

A Red Star. communists.wales welshundergroundnetwork.cymru

On the left side, a poem reads:

"Lenin walks around the world.
The sun sets like a scar.
Between the darkness and the dawn,
There rises a red star".

On the right there is an illustration of Lenin.

Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 2mo ago

Our members were back doing maintenance work at the Cefn Fforest Miners Institute this weekend. This once derelict building is now a thriving community centre, but our work to improve it continues.

Photo of WUN members holding WUN and PGC flags outside the stute.

Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · last mo.

Join us at 1:30 pm outside the Abergele martyrs plaque at LL22 7BP!

Welsh Underground Network@welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 3mo ago

In 1969 two men died in an explosion during the fight for Wales. Don’t let their memory fade into history. Come to the commemoration in Abergele on the 27th of June.

Title reads:

Abergele Martyrs Commemoration 2026

Below, two black and white photographs of George Taylor and Alwyn Jones.

Below, large text reads:

27th of June

Below, text reads:

On this day we are commemorating the deaths of Alwyn Jones and George Taylor, who died in struggle against the British Empire. Feel free to come and show solidarity.

To either side is a WUN symbol and a PGC symbol

Plaid Gomiwnyddol Cymru / The Communist Party of Wales @communists.cymru · 2mo ago

Join statement from Plaid Gomiwnyddol Cymru and Conrad Na Saoirse Naisiunta. Read on our website --> communists.wales/2026/06/09/c...

Plaid Gomiwnyddol Cymry and Conrad Na Saoirse Naisiunta symbols
Between them, the title reads: Joint statement from Plaid Gomiwnyddol Cymru & Conrad Na Saoirse Naisiunta

Text reads:
In light of the recent constitution of Conradh na Saoirse Náisiúnta, Plaid Gomiwnyddol Cymru and Conradh na Saoirse Náisiúnta deem it necessary to clearly set out our shared principles and to outline the primary tasks and challenges facing our revolutionary struggles.
As communists and republicans in nations close to the centre of global imperialism we have both a common enemy and a common responsibility. In spite of its decaying form, the British state, once the head of a global regime of slavery, colonialism and exploitation, remains a key pillar of the modern imperialist system through its financial capital and its role as a partner of the United States. It is impossible to disentangle the modern British state from a series of historical processes rooted in imperialism and exploitation, both at home and abroad. The pre-modern royal English state, followed by the establishment of the early modern British state by the 18th century, was built by a series of agricultural, mercantile and later industrial and financial capitalists from different national backgrounds who were united together in service of exploiting both those in the imperial core and the colonial periphery. Whether English, Scottish or Welsh, those same capitalists wielded the institutions of the British state to subjugate and exploit the working and oppressed peoples of the world, expanding across Ireland and then later into the Americas, Asia and Africa in service of the accumulation of capital, on which our modern world was built and on which contemporary systems of domination and exploitation remain.

Text Reads:
The imperialist nature of the British state is immediately laid bare by its continued colonial domination of Ireland, both through its direct occupation of the six counties in the north and its semi-colonial subjugation of the twenty six county state. Further, the very concept of British national unity has been, from its inception, a tool of the exploiters. It enabled the construction of a stable base for imperial expansion through the integration and reconciliation of various non-English political and economic interests into a unified state project, as well as the integration of white workers from England, Scotland and Wales into a cultural paradigm of Britishness that placed them at the top of a global racial hierarchy, while enabling them to enjoy the proceeds of imperial exploitation in the form of cheap manufactured goods from the periphery and strong public services. This legacy has continued to today, from the use of British airbases in the current imperialist assault on Iran to the RAF spyplanes used to aid the genocide of the people of Palestine.
Below, illustration of spyplane.

Text reads:
Failure to base their struggles on a concrete understanding of this reality has been one of the chief sources of error for working class and revolutionary organisations across these islands, manifesting primarily in right opportunism. This can be seen in the form of economism within large sections of the labour movement, resulting in collaboration with British imperialism to increase workers’ wages without actually addressing the fundamental relation of exploitation between workers in the imperial core and global periphery, to the dismissal of the national question in Britain as well as in Ireland, which precedes the tailism and reformism of many ostensibly communist organisations. This trend, and its relation to a lack of comprehension of both imperialism and Britain’s role in it as part of a global system of domination and exploitation, has become starkly illustrated by the abandonment of internationalist and anti-imperialist principles by swathes of the modern British communist movement, whilst maintaining a dogmatic stance against progressive national movements in Britain or Revolutionary Republican organisations in Ireland.

Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 3mo ago

We wholeheartedly condemn the new anti-trans guidance this government have produced, and send unequivocal solidarity to our trans comrades & neighbours. We call on everyone, trans and cis, to defy this attempt to segregate trans people out of public life. 1/2

The government have published their latest attack on the trans community. What is being proposed has been weakened by the efforts of many progressive groups, but is still fundamentally an attempt to segregate trans people out of public spaces.

This is the product of an organised hate movement. It must be resisted. We call on everyone, trans and cis, to defy this guidance any way they can and to agitate against it.

As ever, we send unequivocal support and solidarity to our trans comrades & neighbours.

The guidance refers to cis women and cis men as “biological women” and “biological men”. This degrades trans people by treating them as “fake women” and “fake men”, and wilfully ignores the biological changes many trans people undergo during transition.

It totally ignores intersex people, assuming that everyone is neatly born male or female and that that “birth sex”, is the most relevant factor in

It treats the presence of trans people in public spaces as potential discrimination against cis people, and argues that the removal of trans people from those spaces can be a reasonable step.

It allows venues to relegate trans people to gender neutral facilities only, treating them as a de-facto “third sex”, as second-class citizens.

Dedicated trans organisations have already been posting detailed overviews of the guidance and its implications. We suggest reading those statements after this one.

Fantastic journalistic and mutual aid work is already being done in the trans community, and that is a strong foundation for the wider progressive movement to build upon when opposing this anti-trans guidance.

Cis people must pull their weight and follow the lead of their trans peers. When a vulnerable section of the working class comes under attack, it is the responsibility of the rest of the class to rally around and defend them.

Capitalism has since its beginning relied on strict enforcement of gender roles and gendered labour. As science and conditions have advanced, and new innovations have given queer communities new language and ideas to organise around, the capitalist gender order faces new challenges.

To defend itself and adapt to this change, the capitalist system has tried to assimilate the more “acceptable” aspects of the LGBTQ+ movement, while continuing intense persecution of the less “marketable” and more “radical” aspects.

The result is a growing trans underclass, relegated to the sections of the sevice industries with the worst conditions, doing traditionally “feminine” labour. Trans women in particular are one of the worst paid and most under-employed demographics in the whole of Europe.

Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 3mo ago

What's next? Here's five ways you can get involved: - Join a trade union - Join @acorncardiff - Join @cymruantifascistnetwork - Join an international solidarity group - Join the Welsh Underground Network Forward to independent working class organising and a Socialist Republic of Wales!

Image of three photos of political parties after the 2026 election.

Below, title reads:

WHAT NEXT?

Below, text reads:

Though the threat of Reform remains, the rise of Plaid Cymru and the fall of Welsh Labour at this election show Wales is hungry for progressive change.

But now is not the time to rest on our laurels: we must push forward with renewed energy and determination.

We can’t just rely on politicians to fix things for us, we need to build or own independent working-class movement.

Here’s five ways you can get involved.

Y Seren Goch @yserengoch.cymru · 3mo ago

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Sons of Prophecy

Welsh legends tell of a mighty king: a great defender of the innocent, credited with many heroic deeds. He surrounded himself with an honour guard of the finest and most virtuous knights in the kin…

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Y Seren Goch @yserengoch.cymru · 3mo ago

Nora Rhiannon writes on the hero worship we’ve seen on the left recently, the problem with chasing a “Mamdani moment”, Corbyn vs Polanski vs Iorwerth, and the only solution for the working class. A great read ahead of the Senedd elections, consider who you put your faith in…

Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 3mo ago

Over a century of Welsh Labour dominance is ending, and the next Welsh government will either be led by Plaid Cymru or by Reform. Plaid Cymru are the better option, but its clear they're not offering systemic solutions to Wales' problems. Welsh workers need to build our own independent movement.

Title reads:

WHICH WAY FORWARD?

Below, a row of hexagonal portraits featuring the leaders of the main political parties. From left to right:

Eluned Morgan (Labour), Rhun ap Iorwerth (Plaid Cymru), Anthony Slaughter (Greens), Jane Dodds (Lib Dems), Dan Thomas (Reform), and Darren Millar (Tory).

Below, slightly offset strips feature questions to the reader. From top to bottom:

Plaid Cymru or Reform? Far Right or Centre Left? Nationalism or Unionism? Is this the best we can hope for?

Below, a footer is present, which remains on every page of the statement. The WUN and PGC symbols are placed to either side on this footer. The text reads:

Statement on the 2026 Senedd Elections.

Title reads:

THE END OF AN ERA. Over a Century of Welsh Labour Dominance is Ending.

Below, text reads:

Labour have been a fact of life in Wales, but people have had enough and are looking for alternatives. With such an unprecedented shift in the balance of electoral power in Cymru, the future feels very uncertain.

It is very likely that the next government will be led by either Reform or Plaid Cymru, but with such a chaotic electoral landscape it remains to be seen what exactly that will look like.

Below, title text reads:

Will either party fix what’s wrong with Wales?

Title reads: A FORK IN THE ROAD. What are the two major parties offering?

Below, text reads:

Reform promise to upend Wales with legislative attacks on immigrants, the Welsh language, environmental protections and the LGBTQ+ community. They would also dramatically restructure the Welsh Government, cutting the civil service by 10%.
Plaid Cymru are proposing some welcome but relatively tame policies: seeking more powers for Wales, extending free childcare, establishing new surgical hubs and creating a national renewable energy company.

Below, title text reads: Is this all that our “leaders” can come up with?

Plaid Gomiwnyddol Cymru / The Communist Party of Wales @communists.cymru · 3mo ago

PARTY STATEMENT: On The 2026 Senedd Elections “Wales is at a crossroads. The party that has effectively governed Wales formally and informally for the last century is now struggling to keep its head above the proverbial clear red water that has historically kept it afloat.”

Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 3mo ago

WREXHAM MAY DAY RALLY May 4th @ 12pm, just outside Guildhall, Wrexham. @communists.cymru

Plaid Gomiwnyddol Cymru / The Communist Party of Wales @communists.cymru · 3mo ago

Freedom for the Republicans, Fight For A 32 County Socialist Republic Of Ireland! Joint statement with @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru on the 110th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising 🇮🇪🚩

Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 4mo ago

[Alt Text image 4:] people gathered chatting in the miners institute by the stall tables

[Alt Text image 5:] raffle prize table with an art print, many books, a card game, sweets, sherry and a pint glass full of money.

Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 4mo ago

Where are we needed next? Is there a park that needs cleaning, a Miners Institute that needs repairing or a community that needs support near you? Working together to fix what's broken in our communities is the first step to organising. Comment or dm us with problems the WUN can help you resolve!

Collection of pictures of WUN members giving out free food, litterpicking, holding a memorial event and performing renovation work.

Underneath, text reads: "Our community rebuilding project has been a big success over the past few years. We're looking to expand it all across Wales, so we need our allies and supporters to let us know: where are we needed next? Is there a problem in your local community we can help you fix? Tell us in the comments!

Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 4mo ago

Cefn Fforest Community Garden begins! WUN members started work building planters for the Cefn Fforest Miners Institute this week

WUN members sawing apart old pallets outside the Miners Institute.

Uneven lengths of wood nailed together to make part of a rustic planter.

Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 4mo ago

Thank you to all the speakers and performers who got on stage at yesterday's Cefn Fforest Stutefest, including Alys Hardy & Beth Winter and the representatives from @acorncardiff.bsky.social & @communists.cymru

Stutefest poster, with a red Welsh dragon, on the door of a Miners Institute. underneath the poster blue paper letters spell out the word "open"

audience watching a musician with a guitar perform onstage at a Miners Institute

audience watching Beth Winter speak at a Miners Institute

audience watching a female speaker onstage at a Miners Institute

Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 4mo ago

Marxist Monday: Constance Markievicz, Irish Socialist Republican 1868-1927 "I went out to fight for Ireland's freedom... and I stand by it."

Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 4mo ago

Our Stutefest fundraiser event for the Cefn Fforest Miners Institute was very successful! 🎉 Along with the lovely food, fun raffle and excellent live music, we talked about the future of working class organising in Wales. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[Alt Text image 1:] a crowd of WUN members stand on stage with banners and flags. one holds a WUN hammer and pick flag, another a PGC hammer and sickle (with the sickle becoming a dragon's tail) and another a red and white flag with the date "1917". the banner reads "for a socialist republic of wales - dros weriniaeth sosialaedd i gymru - welsh underground network"

[Alt Text image 2:] people gathered chatting around a stall covered in books on the spanish civil war, acorn union join forms and community energy leaflets.

[Alt Text image 3:] people sitting on stalls in the miners institute. on the tables are flags for the WUN, the PGC and ACORN. there are all sorts of pamphlets, leaflets, stickers and books.

Y Seren Goch @yserengoch.cymru · 4mo ago

Ein erthygl newydd. Just in time for the big London march tomorrow, we hope that everyone attending will commit to community organising once they get home.

Plaid Gomiwnyddol Cymru / The Communist Party of Wales @communists.cymru · last yr.

COFIWCH HELEN WYN THOMAS On the 6th of August, 1989, British state police killed Helen Wyn Thomas as she protested nuclear weapons in a British RAF base.

Image description: a painting of three women standing under a red flag, one is a pilot, another holds a hammer, and the final one holds a wrench.

Text reads: INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY

妇女能顶半边天 / WOMEN HOLD UP HALF THE SKY!

Text reads: IWD: A HISTORY
Today is International Womens Day (IWD), but not enough people know why the 8th of March was selected to commemorate it. On the 8th of March, 1917, over 20,000 textile workers, mostly women, filled the streets of Petrograd, Russia, and demanded 'Peace, Land & Bread!'
They wanted an end to the imperialist war, an end to the needless slaughter of the global working class, they wanted economic control over their own lives, land for the peasants and food for the people.
These 20,000 workers lit the spark which eventually set off the greatest revolution the world had seen - the Russian Revolution. The Russian Revolution of 1917 overthrew the hated Tsar, and instituted working class democracy, rather than bourgeois capitalist democracy.

Text reads: WELSH WOMEN'S PEACE MOVEMENT
Welsh women have always been at the forefront of the fight for peace, in the wake of the catastrophic World War One, 400,000 Welsh women signed a petition calling for global peace.
We would like to pay homage to the women who fought for peace for all over the last 100 years. In 1981, women marched from Cardiff to Berkshire in England, to the Greenham Common RAF Base - demanding to do an inspection of the site to see if nuclear missiles were there. By 1982, 30,000 women were at the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, and formed a human wall around the base. The camp lasted from 1981-2000.
In 1989, the police attacked and killed Helen Wyn
Thomas - one of the protesters.

Text reads: WOMEN AGAINST PIT
CLOSURES
In 1984-85, a network called 'Women Against Pit Closures' formed, in protest of the Thatcherite plans to destroy the mining industries in Britain. Often mischaracterised as the 'first time' women got involved in political agitation, Welsh women have been at the forefront of the workers movement since the beginning.
Like Annie Powell, who joined the Communist Party of Great Britain in the 1930s, elected as a Communist Councillor in the 50s, and a Mayor in the Rhondda in the 60s, Welsh working class women have always fought for their rights.
Saliwt goch to the women across Wales and the world who fought for their class.

Plaid Gomiwnyddol Cymru / The Communist Party of Wales @communists.cymru · 5mo ago

Joint statement: Oppose the imperialist attack on Iran!

Plaid Gomiwnyddol Cymru / The Communist Party of Wales @communists.cymru · 5mo ago

Party statement: Hands off Booker Omole! "Plaid Gomiwnyddol Cymru joins other communists and anti-imperialists across the world in condemning the harassment and attacks against comrade Omole, and echo the calls for his immediate release."

Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 6mo ago

Reform UK threaten Welsh jobs and Welsh education! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚

REFORM POLITICIANS
THREATEN BANGOR UNI!

When Reform UK asked to visit
Bangor Uni Debating Society, the society refused. In response, Reform politicians are threatening to cut 100% of the University's funding.

Reform UK'S TANTRUM

This is the entitled politics of Reform
UK: if you don't invite us to your events, we'll shut down your whole university in the name of "free speech"

"WE'RE COMING FOR YOU°
Reform are threatening an act of massive cultural and economic vandalism: hundreds would lose their jobs and thousands would lose their education.

Make no mistake, Reform UK are threatening not just Bangor but all of Wales. Reform are coming to take away our universities, our jobs and our country; they want to turn Wales into their personal playground.

Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 6mo ago

Stute Report: the Stute has now opened! The Welsh Underground Network's founding mission is to restore and empower working class communities like the one in Cefn Forest. We won't put down our tools till every town in Wales has a worker-owned community centre like the Cefn Forest Miners Institute.

ALT Picture 1:

Picture of Welsh Underground Network members gathered in front of a stage in the stute's main hall. They are holding two flags - a green one with the initials CFWI (Cefn Fforest Workers Institute) and a red one with the date 1831 (for the Merthyr Rising). Below is an image of WUN members in hard hats fixing a beam in the stute's ceiling.

There is bold red text on this image, reading "Cefn Fforest Stute Report, February 2026"

ALT Picture 2:

"The Cefn Fforest Miners Institute is open

Our years at the stute have been spent smashing, building, fetching, carrying, painting, plastering, fixing and weeding. We've removed rubble and installed solar panels.

Now, thanks to the hard-working stute volunteers, this formerly abandoned building is once again ready to serve the local community. It has already been host to a pantomime, a lecture and a wrestling match!

But we're nowhere near finished: this year we'll be repairing the stute's atrium, growing a new community garden and holding some exciting events in its main hall..."

ALT Picture 3:

"WUN members get the job done

The Welsh Underground Network's founding mission is to restore and empower working class communities like the one in Cefn Fforest. We believe that with enough hard graft and the right plan, the Welsh working class can achieve anything we set our minds to.

What we've done at the stute is remarkable, but this is only the first step on the journey. We won't put down our tools until every town in Wales has a stute like this one.

Get in touch if you want to come visit the stute with us, if you know of another stute that needs our help, or if you want to join our movement."

Plaid Gomiwnyddol Cymru / The Communist Party of Wales @communists.cymru · 6mo ago

Party statement: Bloody Sunday "In Derry last Sunday, on the 1st of Feburary, members of Plaid Gomiwnyddol Cymru and the Welsh Underground Network attended the Bloody Sunday March for Justice in solidarity with our comrades in the Connolly Youth Movement."

Wrexham Anti-Fascists @wrexhamaf.bsky.social · 6mo ago

⚠️ Emergency Protest ⚠️ 📣 Wrexham says No to Fascism, No to the Far Right, No division in our communities 📣 ❤️If you believe in solidarity, hope and community, join us at Queens Square 31st Jan, 11:00 for 12:00 protest❤️

Plaid Gomiwnyddol Cymru / The Communist Party of Wales @communists.cymru · 6mo ago

Party Statement: 81 Years Since The Liberation Of Auschwitz "The Red Army soldiers who liberated Auschwitz would see the same pain in an emaciated Palestinian in Gaza, as they would in a Jew in the camps they liberated."