If not you have no need of the Poets Republicanism of Mike Jenkins nor Leon Machen's 'Little Republic' Cardiff Bay Republican 'Day Dreaming' evening of Entertainment. What you do need is an education on Republicanism full stop, none better to give you that than the contributions of David Lawrence towards a Welsh Republican Cause as in previous and other posts. Other than this next steps in advance to a true Welsh Republicanism other than the above nor the 'Garibaldi' Republicanism of Balchder Cymru is the holding of rotating Welsh Republican Quarterly Colleges North, East, West and South. Becoming in time Welsh Republican Directorates as the foundations of a Welsh Republican Movement III. Courses required in Republican Philosophy and Theory towards practice in developing such a Welsh Republican Movement III it's Struggle and Campaigns but whom would organise such? I suggest possibly some Welsh Republican 'Old Timers' as Gareth ap Sion and Gareth Westacott, not I as I am fixed in my Socialist Republicanism via the Great Unrest 2012 Group but I understand that this might not suit those more of a 'Nationalist Republican' mind. I have no problem however in advancing the below as it might be the first step towards an alternative Welsh Socialist Republican Party, see:
Be mindful this month of:
I suggest to ''Welsh Republicans'' An annual 20 August 1795Llangadfan Commemoration of the death of William Jones more befitting than traipsing about Cilmeri or Cardiff Dewi Day Parading and CBRD? To be associated with a Republican Conference to discuss the Question I have posed above WHITHER WELSH REPUBLICANISM?
William Jones (christened 18 June 1726 - died 20 August 1795) was a Welsh ...
his later preaching of the glory of emigration, lived his whole life at Llangadfan.
his later preaching of the glory of emigration, lived his whole life at Llangadfan.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jones_(Welsh_radical) - 71k - Similar pages
Possible Republican gathering at Llangadfan 18 - 19 Awst 2012 to discuss matters in this post and matters arising.
WRM I MANIFESTO.
No movement that seeks to assert the fundamental historic and moral right of
the Welsh Nation to freedom and independence can acknowledge any ties whether
real or formal which tend directly or indirectly to bind Wales and her people
in subjection to English or any external sovereign institutions. Wales is a
nation and her loyalty is to herself, as her sovereignty is in herself and in
her historic and undivided nationhood. We cannot, consequently, accept
allegiance to the English Crown as a condition imposed upon or attached to our
freedom and independence.
Furthermore, the Welsh nation is essentially a community of the common people
(y werin bobl). Therefore the movement that is to enshrine the spirit of our
liberation and express and conduct the struggle for freedom must aim at
establishing a Republic of Wales, which will be the symbol of our independence
as a nation and of the democratic community of our people.
The people, that is, the so called common people, everywhere are striving
towards a fuller and more fundamental democratic order based upon the
recognition of the political, social and economic equality of all men, an order
in which men and women shall enjoy a larger freedom and in which nations and
national life will be fully recognized. The Welsh national movement must not
only accept this as its basic outlook, but must become its interpreter and
guiding spirit. To succeed in this mission the Welsh national movement must
renounce the political forms, social canons and economic precepts associated
with the decaying and discredited aristocratic-imperialist civilization, of
which the English Empire is one of the best examples, and of which the English
Crown is its classic emblem and protector. That civilization all over the world
is under challenge from two directions, namely, from nations which are becoming
conscious of their nationhood, and at the same time from men and women who are
becoming increasingly conscious of the commonalty of all humanity.
In a real democratic society, as distinguished from the formal democracy of our
time, there are no gradations of rights, with larger rights for some and lesser
right for others, either as between men in their society and work, or as
between nations and peoples. The doctrine of social stratification with its
superior and inferior classes, with its privileged and unprivileged and with
its higher and lower orders must be renounced and its institutions
abolished.
The Welsh national movement of liberation must, therefore, of necessity be a
revolutionary movement aiming at the overthrow of all those powers which hold
men and nations in political or social or economic servitude. In our progress
towards the goal of our freedom as a nation and a people a new social and moral
synthesis will be created which will at once be the assurance and the
expression of a new civilization. We feel that an acceptance of the forms and
symbols of the old will effectively defeat the reality and substance of the new
civilization.
We would, consequently, set forth as our aims and objectives for a free and
independent Wales and declare as follows:
I. That Wales must be a sovereign democratic Republic subject only to such
authority as it may accept or subscribe to as a member of the community of free
nations.
2. That the King of England whether in person as liege lord or through any
constitutional agency as monarch shall have no jurisdiction in or dominion over
Wales or any person in Wales.
3. That no Welshman or Welsh woman shall owe allegiance to or be the subject of
any liege lord or any other person.
4. That there shall be in Wales no hereditary or other titles or any other form
of political or social or economic prerogatives or distinctions nor any
privileges which are not shared or capable of being shared by all.
5. The people of Wales shall be a free people in a free country and not subject
to any servitudes whether political, social or economic and shall enjoy in
their society a status of unqualified equality. All class distinctions whether
based on claims of birth or property shall be abolished.
6. The Republic of Wales shall be founded upon the unreserved recognition of
the dignity and worth of the human personality and shall guarantee to the
people of Wales without distinction the unrestricted rights of the moral person
in order to secure and promote the fullest development of the individual person
and of the national life.
7. It shall be the aim of the Republic of Wales to bring to consummation the
idea of the democratic society in all fields of human activity and interest and
establish the principle of co-operation as the democratic basis of our economy
in the form of co-operative organisations or guilds in which the work, the
responsibilities and the fruits shall be shared by all who work.
8. To the same end ownership shall be by and for use only. All the archaic
forms of land tenure shall be abolished and land, houses and all other
properties shall vest in those who for living purposes or for work use them
either individually or in co-operation as co-owners.
9. The Welsh language as the native language of the Welsh people shall be the
first and official language of the Republic of Wales but in the circumstances
which have resulted in Wales through English rule the English language shall be
used as a second language and as such shall be officially recognized.
10. It shall be a primary aim of the Republic of Wales to increase the acreage
of Welsh land under food production and to establish a balanced Welsh economy
by means of a vigorous policy of land settlement and development of rural
trades and industries.
11. The Republic of Wales shall live in close association with all the other
Celtic peoples and shall endeavor in every way to co-operate fully with all
other nations and particularly with its near neighbors in the Republic of
Ireland, Scotland and England.
12. The Republic of Wales must have and take its place and play its part in the
international community of nations.
Published by The Welsh Republican Movement.
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