Monday, 9 July 2012

HISTORY AND INFORMATION ON REPUBLICAN PHILOSOPHY AND THEORIES FOR WELSH NATIONALIST REPUBLICANS OTHER THAN JUST A QUICK READ UP ON DUBLIN GPO 1916 - EDUCATE TO BE FREE!


Information provided by David Lawrence, a serious Republican Remembrancer and Educator. Much thanks very useful material links to purpose of this Blogs Republican Week and Republican Soap Box Nation, any of you ''Republicans'' going to turn up. I will but not early as I have to go and do some other stuff out West first but you can get on with out me, as politically my Socialist Republicanism is sorted with the Great Unrest 2012. Next year you should consider a full on Republican Summer School Weekend with trips to local Republican Interest sites as at Abergwuan and Garreg Wasted.

A discussion of Democracy which I find interesting because it debates the Republican and Religious criticisms of the faults of this form of government and introduces Machiavelli's advocacy of it as a form of Republican government -
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ioth/all#playepisode107
 
This one debates Republicanism in England prior to the Civil War and Commonwealth, but I think that it leaves out a lot  ( and the trial of Charles 1st sort of follows naturally ? )
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ioth/all#playepisode121   ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ioth/all#playepisode33  ? )
 
The Norman Yoke was a popular Republican / Democratic idea ( linked to the ideas around Magna Carta ) invoked by radicals to justify themselves from the 17th century onwards -
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ioth/all#playepisode49   (   http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ioth/all#playepisode35  )
 
Radicals would also cite Tacitus to invoke the idea of how Rome was destroyed by the tyranny of emperors over the senators trying to preserve the rule of law ( i.e. The Republic )
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ioth/all#playepisode45   (   http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ioth/all#playepisode77  )
 
After the fall of the Roman Empire in the west knowledge of Republicanism survived in the Byzantine Empire ( and when that fell manuscripts found their way to Machiavelli's Italy )
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ioth/all#playepisode108  (  http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ioth/all#playepisode78  )
 
Machiavelli's contribution to modern thought helped to give birth to the Enlightenment that in the 18th century finally welded Democracy to Republicanism ( even in Scotland )
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ioth/all#playepisode114   (  http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ioth/all#playepisode95  )
 
It is important to remember that the Enlightenment was about scientific authority challenging that based on religious or political authority, which led to revolutions of all sorts -
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ioth/all#playepisode11   (  http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ioth/all#playepisode80   ) 
 
Of course revolutions are full of hope but are mostly disappointing ( especially when the law and order proposed by Republicanism is subverted by Democrats )
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ioth/all#playepisode109   (  http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ioth/all#playepisode73  )
 
Of course violence was in general use by those who felt that reasonable behaviour was not required of them ( e.g. that politics should be rational and just )
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ioth/all#playepisode70    (  http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ioth/all#playepisode42  )
 
As the Spanish and Portugeuse empires failed the question arose as to what kinds of state would replace them : republics based on autocracy ? beurocracy ? ( Nationality ? )
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ioth/all#playepisode44    (  http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ioth/all#playepisode125   )
 
But are all of these ideas now irrelevant politically, is this all story-telling to comfort ourselves with a sense of order and possibility ? ( Is history relevant to our problems at all ? )
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ioth/all#playepisode131   (  http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ioth/all#playepisode130   )
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ioth/all#playepisode131

Sunday, 8 July 2012

WELSH REPUBLICAN WEEK WARM UP TO WELSH REPUBLICAN HOLIDAY - MAENCLOCHOG - CLOSE TO THE 'BASTILLE' ON THE GREEN - WELSH REPUBLICAN SOAP BOX NATION - MAYBE IF ALL THESE ''WELSH REPUBLICANS'' SHOW UP WITH THEIR SOAP BOXES OF COURSE?




What Can I Say That Will Warm Up The Living Dead?




So, I will leave it to some Republican Poetry, see in link below:


http://stryveland.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/paw-to-fore-poets-to-door-where-else.html


Yes! Is that ''Welsh Republicanism'', if it is then as sure as snow melts in hell we will never see a 'Welsh Republic' that is for sure! However, this Poetry could just kill off 'Zombie Republicanism', as all so called ''Welsh Republicans'' are. So sad that ''Welsh Republicans'' consider it is far easier to write Republican Poetry than do any real RADICAL REPUBLICAN ACTION AGAINST THE ENGLISH CROWN IN CYMRU - The Merthyr Protest proved that one protest does not make a Welsh Republican Revolt only a sad conclusion in CARDIFF BAY REPUBLICAN DAY DREAMING and more awful 'Welsh Republican Poetry'. May I suggest you so called ''Welsh Republican Poets'' get real, get radical and get yourselves on to a Welsh Republican Frontline you bloody useless blatherers!!! READ THIS  BELOW AND DIE OF SHAME?

Whatever else maybe said of the 19th century Gaelic poets they cannot be .... at
the same time resonant with the heroic and romantic film over Mhari's eyes in the ...
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Now try to follow that through in a Radical Welsh Way as follows, if you have the guts for it? you know the Courage of Conviction, yes!

WALK THE WALK NOT TALK! TALK! TALK!

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Rali Gweriniaethol "Merthyr Rising 2012": Gethin ap Gruffydd ...
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Get it? No! Then How About This >








If 'Nationalist Republicanism', Romantic or of the Rainbow kind does not deliver for you, then try out Red Republicanism the Partisan Cymru way:


For Red Republican Action Against those who seek to make of our Country and Communities 'CORPORATE COLONY CYMRU'.


Towards a Wales Socialist Workers and Peoples Republic.



Towards a Socialist Wales National Liberation Struggle:


IT IS THE ONLY WAY FORWARD THAT REMAINS TRUE TO OUR HISTORY OF PEOPLES STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM AND JUSTICE AGAINST ALL FORMS OF OPPRESSION, TYRRANY and EXPLOITATION. All other ''Welsh Republicanisms'' are just plainly SHALLOW or worse SHAMBOLIC to say the least so GET REAL GO RED!!!

Sunday, 17 June 2012

14 JULY MAENCLOCHOG BASTILLE DAY CELEBRATIONS: A SUGGESTED ANNUAL ''WELSH REPUBLICAN'' HOLIDAY IN SEARCH OF RADICAL REPUBLICAN ROOTS AS TO RESTORE AND MAKE RADICAL RESURGENT WELSH REPUBLICANISM, STRUGGLE IF NOT 'MOVEMENT' AS NOTE 'MOVEMENTS' MUST GROW OUT OF STRUGGLE IN PROTESTS NOT PATHETIC POETRY DOWN IN 'BAE CAERDYDD' NOR IN ENDLESS FACEBOOK FANTASY - GET OUT AND ABOUT INTO THE MOUNTAINS ESTABLISH WELSH REPUBLICAN FRONT LINES AROUND THE ENGLISH CROWN ESTATES CYMRU PLC - GO ON DO IT - SEIZE THE TIME?



CBRD Achievements:

2011 Thwarting Republican Protests against Visit of LIZ II to WAG as in previous times:


2012 Diverted Welsh Republican Action Against the Jubilee and distracted Welsh Republican Action on the English Crown Estates, nice one Leon do not try it next time Mush! - YOUR SUSSED AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED AS IN REALITY A PLAID 'rainbow republican' CYMRU Fellow Traveller and possibly worse a CRACHACH CAMP FOLLOWER? Pity really though you had the makings!!! How wrong could I be, very disappointing? Below are just a few of the actions Sian and I have taken this year thus far!

First Welsh Republican Flag Raised on an English Crown Estate.


At Mynydd Llanfihangl Rhos-Y-Corn Ebrill 2012. As for the 1831 Flag an Inspiration to advance of a Radical Rural Revolt on this vast English Crown Estate on which it is intended to establish an huge Windmill Plantation on and around Coedwig Brechfa. A collaboration of English Goverment, WAG Puppet Parliament and Sir Gar Council with Corporate Capitalist Windmill Masters - See Below for Info on the August Bank Holiday 2012 

ADFEDDIANT!

WHERE THE WELSH REPUBLICAN ACTION NEEDS TO BE?


Campaigning Extended to Autumn, to give ''Welsh Republicans'' time to think about it, put poems and pints aside and get to it - Like SEIZE THE TIME?


I and Sian have done Mynyddoed Llanfiangl Rhos-y-Corn Llanllwnni and Llanybydder:


Pic: Mynyddoedd Llanfihanl Rhos-Y-Corn a Llanllwni above 
and below Mynydd Llanybydder.


Both of above locations we claimed on behalf of CYMRWCH Y TIR YN OL  for the 'People of the Red Pitchfork' Land and Liberty Campaign also in support of the Demand for a Wales Land Act . I will leave Bryn Llywelyn to PAW SIR GAR - Patriots Against Windmills, Cilfaesty to any ''Welsh Republican'' grouplet who might at the same time return to some Radical ''Welsh Republican Roots'' at Llangadfan, possibly on and around 20 August in a William Jones Commemoration - Now which of you ''Welsh Republicans'' will quickly jump at that before Balchder Cymru does, these 'Lads and Lassies' don't hang about do they. Russell will have a petition and face book up quicker that the blinking of a CBD 'Dreamers' Eye and before a poet can whisper 'GRANTS R' US!

William Jones (christened 18 June 1726 - died 20 August 1795) was a Welsh ...
He was christened at Llangadfan parish church on 18 June 1726, and the only ...
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BUT YOU CAN HAVE AN HOLIDAY FIRST?

























Essential ''Wannabe Welsh Republican Reading'' Prior to this holiday and National Eisteddfod

people who had just left for the Land of the Free. A key figure was William. Jones,
a vinegary Voltairean from the cloth village of Llangadfan, a Welsh revivalist in ...
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This will prepare you for the 'SOAP BOX REPUBLIC' on Maenclocog Green during Afternoon of 14th July, whilst those more interested in Poems and Pints note there is a Pub opposite. For Cultural Republicans there is potential for a gathering at the Waldo Memorial and Socialist Republicans can visit a Ty Unnos. Whilst 'Esoteric Republicans' can just do a trip into the Preseli Hills via the Blue Stone Memorial opposite the Waldo Memorial. Those of 'Garibaldi' Nationalist republican mind note there are the ruins of a Medieval Castle in the Car Park near by. Those with families, I suggest a pleasant walk to Tafarn Sinc, this as a garden and replica Rail Way Station which will be of interest to Children. Do during Afternnon before the 'Republican Rebels' turn up to celebrate the French Revolution and fall of the Bastille on 14 July 1789: Those I consider need to address their 'Welsh Republican Audience' are as follows, some one invite them?


*  Leon Machen CBRD Republicans.
* Christopher Davies Cymru Rydd 'Nationalist Republicans'.
* Gareth ap Sion 'Old School' Tradional Cultural Republicans.
* Gareth Westacott 'Old School' Socialist Republicans'.
* Leanne Wood Guardian 'Rainbow Republicanism'.
* Bethan Jenkins 'Webbist Poetry Republicans'.
* Balchder Cymru 'Sixties' Retro Republicanism.
* Cyfamod 'Cultural Republicans'.
* Roy Jones 'Right Wing Nationalist Republican'.
* Alwyn 'Misarable Old Fart' an interesting Non Republican?


* Assorted 'Garibaldi' V 'Mazzin' Republicans? in follow up D&D.


Me? I am wandering about in the Preseli Mountains and going to do some private personal thinking on my ideas for an Esoteric Gothic Romantic Republicanism 'Byron and Arther Machen Style' will let you all know how far I will get!!!

Bastille Day is the name given in English-speaking countries to the French
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Why Maenclochog for 14 July, see their 'Bastille' and why?




So, refreshed from your holiday you will be thinking screw the poetry where's the Barricade?


HERE, see below:


Patriots and Partisans - Republicans Make Ready in a 'Mass Mobalisation' (opptimistic as ever?) for another one of those 'Occupations' not need for any 'Barricades' just 'People's Allotments' all over this vast English Crown Estate, see in photo below, I am pointing way Southward towards Mynydd Llanllwni. Anyone want to do a 'Republican Ramble' over it towards Mynydd Llanfihangl Rhos- Y-Corn  with Poetry reading on way, that's ok by me as at least you will not be in a pub - the death bed of Revolutionary Chartism and the Free Wales Army, trust me! Will the Welsh Ever learn? Be as the Tarw Scotch and hold your meetings in the Mountains as did Medieval Welsh Rebels and the Tarw Scotch did in Mountain Quarries. If you become a Glyndwr Rambler you will find some great places for Patriotic Rebel Meetings, not least when you start to plot as how to really succeed to thwart INVESTITURE III, yes? Whatever, this time as I said WALK NOT TALK!


Mystery Foto?


Baner Pitchfork Been There But You Can Take A Welsh Republican Flag there during Esteddfod week, if you locate above in time as no doubt the Poet Republicans' will grab a great pub close by for an evening of Poems, Pints and Pacifsm whilst the 'Cultural Republicans' can do some Folk Dancing on the Village Green outside maybe? Check Out The Old White Heart Llantwit Major in blog below also see Posts SARHAD 2011 P 1, 2 and 3 The Day Welsh Republicanism Died but as returned as 'Republican Zombies', staggering around seeking more suckers to be 'fb Name farmed and then just chewed up with fruitless inaction, mumbling bad poetry and muttering about an Independence that is quite obviously unattainable as long as it is left to 'Zombie Republicanism'. The question really begs to be asked are all these Nationalist Versions of basically a 'Garibaldi Republic Royalism' more 'Jacobite' than 'Jacobin' me thinks!



Another mystey photo: Next year more fitting you hold a proper Welsh Republican Day of D and D here and an evening of Poems and Pints during evening in any number of Pubs close by.


?
Though, i guess the 'Garibaldies' will prefer Cilmeri Cenotaph, sigh!


*


Lets Not Forget  possibly Last Real  Traditional Welsh Republican:




In respect to Pedr being 'Gay' whilst the 'Gay Movement' in Wales ignores him I will not and place here a 'Gay Wales Flag' in memory of Pedr as a 'Gay Patriot' but still Patriot first and foremost.



Ta! Ta! for Now - Note my fb and a few blogs will be closed down during evening of 1 July 2012, in an attempt to rationalize.I want to do less Tech and more reading  and still more Glyndwr Rough Rambling!

Pissed Off, so No Hwyl!!!



Am off To Be With 


The Pwca for rest of the Summer!




Pwca Geth 


Signing off!

Friday, 8 June 2012

CBR DAY DREAMERS - IF YOU CANNOT HANDLE CROWN ESTATES HOW ABOUT THIS - STOP FIDDLING WHILST CYMRU COLLAPSES BEFORE THE CORPORATE CAPITALIST COLONISERS AIDED BY PLAID 'rainbow republican' CYMRU But No Problem as Perhaps on Saturday 9 -6 - 2012 Maybe REBECCA WILL RIDE AGAIN?.!





http://stryveland.blogspot.co.uk/search?updated-min=2012-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=14




REBECCA TIME TO RIDE AGAIN, YES?





......WHO SOLD OUT MYNYDD Y BETWS AND BRECHFA TO THE WINDMILL MASTERS.



  • .......WHERE WAS 'REBECCA'S ARMY NEWYDD' WHEN MYNYDD Y BETWS HAD ALIEN LORDS POSSESS 'STRYVELAND' AND HAD GATES PLACE UPON IT?

'Patriots of Eginiog'

On the 9th June 2012 you will have opportunity to step up to 'The Gate' and
take up the Pitch Fork of the Rebecca Rioters, who amongst you will when called upon at the 'Betws Barricade' will read the below Call to Action?

Prior to destroying the toll gates, 'Rebecca' would call to his followers who were also dressed as women and perform a scene which involved the following words:[5]

Rebecca: "What is this my children? There is something in my way. I cannot go on."
Rioters: "What is it, mother Rebecca? Nothing should stand in your way,"
Rebecca: "I do not know my children. I am old and cannot see well."
Rioters: "Shall we come and move it out of your way mother Rebecca?"
Rebecca: "Wait! It feels like a big gate put across the road to stop your old mother."
Rioters: "We will break it down, mother. Nothing stands in your way."
Rebecca: "Perhaps it will open...Oh my dear children, it is locked and bolted. What can be done?"
Rioters: "It must be taken down, mother. You and your children must be able to pass."
Rebecca: "Off with it then, my children."
This would then in turn lead to the destruction of the toll gates.
'Yn Cymraeg'

Don't Worry it is only a reenactment, I have no intention of spending the night in Swansea Jail, Will anyone 'costume up' great if could be done?

INFO ON HISTORY

Rebecca was a small army of gender transgressing folk heroes that numbered in
the thousands. Rebecca ... The Rebecca Riots took place in the rural parts of
west Wales, including Pembrokeshire, ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Rebecca_Riots ...

The Rebecca Riots took place between 1839 and 1843 in South and Mid Wales.
They were a series of protests undertaken by local farmers and agricultural ...
Rebecca Riots (formerly known as Final Girl) is a female “radical folk” trio
founded in 1993 by its members, Andrea Prichett, Lisa Zeiler, and Eve Decker.

13 Apr 2011 ... August 25, 1843 Rebecca Riot Meeting on Mynydd Sylen. Rebecca Riots -
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. en.wikipedia.org. The Rebecca ...
NOW MAYBE A 'BYDDIN REBECCA NEWYDD' WILL TURN IT's ATTENTION TO THE ENGLISH CROWN ESTATES ON AND AROUND THE BRECHFA FOREST?

Where Are The 'POBL CEFFYL PREN NEWYDD' NAWR?

The custom was similar to practices known in England as "rough music" or in
Scotland ... And they blessed Rebecca or An account of the Welsh Toll-gate Riots ...

The Rebecca riots are better documented and have made a more lasting .... 2
Times, 25 July 1843 8 Thompson's studies of charivari, or 'rough music', have ...

Rough music, also known as ran-tan or ran-tanning, is an English folk custom, a
practice in which a humiliating and loud public punishment is inflicted upon one ...

Rough Music, Food Riots, and Popular Rebellions .... Welsh Towns, 1450–1700 (
Manchester, 1983), 52–3, from Lancashire RO, Quarter Sessions, QSB/1/61/36.

The 9th of June Might Begin the DEFENCE OF DEHEUBARTH -  SIR GAR FROM HAVING IT'S LAND POSSESSED ELSEWHERE BY ALIEN LORDS AND STOP MORE GATES THEN BEING PLACED UPON THE LAND  -  SATURDAY 9  - 6 - 2012 WOULD BE A MOST SUITABLE OCCAISION TO SEIZE THE TIME AND DECLARE THE INTENTIONS OF A 'Byddin Rebecca Newydd' I do not mean something violently underground, 
 
such would suit an otherwise radical protest public space!

IT IS THE 11th HOUR THERE IS NO TIME TO FIDDLE WHILST CYMRU COLLAPSES BEFORE THE CORPORATE GANGSTER - NEW LORDS OF THE LAND - THE WINDMILL MASTERS!

FORGET THE PINTS AND THE POEMS AND PICK UP THE RED PITCHFORK!

STOP PRESS

The 9th of June 2012 Will Be a Good Day To Begin The Fight Back!

PS: I and Sian are taking a long break, but I will be helping to stop Turbines at Swansea Docks. Passing Pontardawe (Afan Nedd) and on the English Crown Estates in and around the Brechfa Forest. But organising nothing have had enough hassle from 'Shites' and WECTU, so we shall just await the Call to Action?

Other than that and in Positive 'STRYVELAND CYMRU' way will press on to the Vyrnwy Estate for theThird Time in again a Day Of Action to this time make of it another 'STRYVELAND' as that is what ADFYWIADWR DO!

See


Also:

29 Apr 2012 ... Their struggles for Self - Detirmination also campaigns and protests against ... 2
May 2012, if not are we up to some sweet but loud 'Rough Music' to greet the
Scum ... Aboriginal Day of Action - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ...