2015: ENGLAND TO MEET IT'S WATERLOO IN WALES? (also Info on Welsh Republican Summer Gathering Weekend 13 - 14 July)

Waterloo 1815 - 2015 200th Anniversary.

http://www.waterloo200.org/strategic-approach-to-the-200th-anniversary-of-the-battle-of-waterloo/

There is much more on the web, go google up and note London Govt is giving one million, yes, I said One Million Quid to do up the battlefield. So how much will Welsh Assembly give to doing up Welsh Battlefields? Now, that is a worthy campaign WAG cough up one million for our Battlefields  be good for tourism (see my I'r Gad WBfC blog). I am considering making a patriotic political answer to this Waterloo Anniversary as more a Welsh Republican Platform regards an exploration and informing of Welsh Republican Roots with much focus on Iolo Morgannwg et al and Penfro Welsh - French Republican connections. Thus, I will be over in Maenclochog on 13 July to commemorate the 14 July French Revolution Bastille Day celebrations, why there go see below:

http://ramrepublicansagainstmonarchy.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/14-july-maenclochog-bastille-day.html

An annual Welsh Republican Summer gathering more purposeful than CBRD towards advancing a WRM III but this year will also consider all ideas as what to do about above Waterloo Anniversary.

I am supposed to be retiring but I shall give all the above my attention to 14 July 2013.

I will be at Maenclochog from about mid day, later up to see memorial stones on Preseli mountains and an evening at Tafarn Zinc. Then on Sunday 14 July, you might make your own way to visit Abergwuan and Garreg Wasted  or go north to tour around Mynydd Bach. As I have visited both locations a number of times I shall be visiting Friends on the Sunday, you might also want to see Ardal Niclas y Glais in this area:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Evan_Nicholas_(Niclas_y_Glais)

That I call a really worth while weekend Welsh Republican Summer gathering 

and outing to interesting historical location not wasting time on Poems and Pints down Crachach Bae Caerdydd.

Stop Press:

Welsh Republicanism State of Play to date:

1. Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood attacked over Welsh republican ...

   www.walesonline.co.uk/.../wales.../plaid-cymru-leader-leanne-wood-202...‎

   Sep 18, 2012 – ... she uttered a bizarre oath of allegiance to Welsh republicanism at a... all our woes, especially now that we have a Parliament that we have ...

2. Welsh Republic | We don't need their Tories or Royals!

   welshrepublic.com/‎

   Welsh Republic ... Republican MP defies ban discussing royals at Westminster » ....Welsh football chiefs said today that they remain opposed to any of their ...

   
   

   1. Republic Wales

      www.republic-wales.org/‎

      Republic Wales campaigns for an end to the monarchy and a republican ... Our Swansea team is now on Twitter – you can follow all the updates from the ...

      
      

      I do not think the below is a serious Welsh Republican effort, more like an hybrid BC/Cymru Rydd spawned 'usual suspect' bog standard fb creation, best avoided if your Welsh Republicanism is of the serious radical resurgent political kind.

   2. Welsh Republican | Facebook

      https://www.facebook.com/pages/Welsh-Republican/170617689672839‎

      Welsh Republican. 30 likes · 0 talking ... To connect with Welsh Republican, sign up for Facebook today. ... Recent Posts by Others on Welsh RepublicanSee All ...

      
      

      and this >

      
      

      1. The Democratic Republican Party of Wales | Facebook

         https://www.facebook.com/...Democratic-Republican-Party...Wales/3553...‎

         The Democratic Republican Party of Wales. 9 likes · 0 talking about this.

         
         

         Jury Out, what do you think? Meanwhile my favored options are:

         
         

         Welsh Socialist Republican Party - Democracy and Class Struggle

         democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.com/.../toward-welsh-socialist-republ...‎

         Mar 15, 2012 – Toward a Welsh Socialist Republican Party reject Plaid Cymru's Great.... is capable of leading Wales to the new democracy of autonomous self ...

         
         

         PARTISAN cymru/wales. Partisan To Beliefs, Ideas and Socialist ...

         partisan2011.blogspot.com/‎

         Jun 18, 2013 – PARTISANS CYMRU SUPPORTS THE 1 JULY 2013 INTERNATIONAL DAY OF SUPPORT FOR INDIA'S PEOPLES WAR.

         
         

         March 26th Movement - Alternative Platform | Facebook

         https://www.facebook.com/...Alternative-Platform/207218579290202‎

         March 26th Movement - Alternative Platform. 54 likes · 4 talking ... March 26th Movement - Alternative Platform shared Nicholas Glais's photo. Yesterday · Photo

         
         

         LIBERATION MAGAZINE.

         
         

         1. Liberation Magazine - Alternative Bookshop Online

            www.alternativebookshop.com/BookDetails.php?bookid=1729‎

            The reason for launching Liberation Magazine is that we take the view you cannot win a game where the rules are made your opponent. In the case of Wales, ...

         2. Launch of Liberation Magazine – The Voice of Welsh Socialist ...

            drmyronevans.wordpress.com/.../launch-of-liberation-magazine-the-voic...‎

            Mar 25, 2013 – Launch of Liberation Magazine – The Voice of Welsh Socialist Republicans. To Gethin ap Gruffudd: I have been a socialist republican all my ...

         3. Cymrwch Y Tir Yn Ol supports Liberation Magazine the Voice of ...

            democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.com/.../cymrwch-y-tir-yn-ol-support...‎

            Mar 30, 2013 – Cymrwch Y Tir Yn Ol supports Liberation Magazine the Voice ofWelsh Socialist Republicans. To get your copy of Liberation Magazine go here ...

         4. LIBERATION MAGAZINE HERALDS WAY FORWARD PATRIOTS ...

            partisan2011.blogspot.com/.../liberation-magazine-heralds-way-forward....‎

            Mar 23, 2013 – Liberation Magazine unashamedly stands for a Welsh Socialist Republic an idea that has been maturing in Wales for over a century. However ...

Don't say I am censorious of the 'opposition'>

Cardiff Bay Republican Day 2013 - YouTube

► 107:08► 107:08

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UdxiGpsghk‎

Jun 5, 2013 - Uploaded by cardiffbayrepublican

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See below Sleeping Partners to above:




Hawliau - Welsh National Rights Movement | Facebook

https://en-gb.facebook.com/Hawliau‎

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5VBIYNBaDk&feature=share ... Cardiff Bay Republican Day 2013 ... http://hawliau.wordpress.com/2013/05/22/the-launch/.




Just more of the 'Usual Suspect' again bog stardard fb stuff, good for their research only but otherwise they will not be a patch on 'Stryveland Cymru', just another distraction from reality and struggle for Land and Liberty.




'STRYVELAND CYMRU' Homeland Defence Movement.

stryveland.blogspot.com/‎

Jun 6, 2013 – 'STRYVELAND CYMRU' Homeland Defence Movement. In Autonomous Struggle of Campaigns and Protests Against Exploitation of our ...




Otherwise stick to SOFRANIAETH:




SOFRANIAETH. S.O.S. SAVE OUR SOVEREIGNTY.: DYDD ...

sofraniaeth.blogspot.com/.../case-for-welsh-sovereignty-mindful-of.html‎

Sep 14, 2010 – SOFRANIAETH. ... THE CASE FOR WELSH SOVEREIGNTY, Mindful of Sir Roger Casement and Sinn Fein. ... SIR ROGER DAVID CASEMENT.




I am on way to retirement and thus this blog will close down on 16 July 2013.

Hwyl! 

Gethin ap Gruffydd.

RED REPUBLICANS 1 JUNE 2013 YOUR RADICAL ROAD NOT CBRD REFORMIST ROAD. 1st JUNE KICKS OFF A WEEK OF ANTI - ROYALIST CAMPAIGNING?

http://partisan2011.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/red-commune-1831-insurrection.html

WELSH REPUBLICANS TO YOUR ANTI - ENGLISH ROYALIST FRONT LINES ACROSS CYMRU 1 - 7 JUNE 2013. A WEEK OF WELSH REPUBLICAN ACTION NOT ON fb BUT OUT IN THE REAL WORLD.

The English Crown is well ahead in organising another Royal Knees up with as you see below, a Union Jack T'Sunami is about to hit Wales over seven days of 1953 - 2013 60th Anniversary Coronation Commemoration - Celebrations no doubt thru out Cymru as much as in England during week of 1 - 7 June 2013.  So, once again I call for Welsh Republican Action with at least a Poster Campaign in our communities and this time around not least in Cardiff where the below fotos were taken. Of course you may ignore me but as many self style 'Welsh Republicans' fail to be pro - active then it is left to me to do so. Mindful as I am that the Nationalist Republicans have been pro - active in the past and hopefully will be again. To assist in campaign promotion feel free to use the artwork here in your blogs and on fb also as ideas for stickers and posters.

POST SCRIPT - 1831 COMMEMORATION 2013.

http://partisan2011.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/red-commune-cymru-1831-insurrection.html

STOP PRESS: ANNUAL WELSH REPUBLICAN SUMMER ASSEMBLY TO MARK 14 JULY 1789 FRENCH REVOLUTION 'BASTILLE DAY'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastille_Day

MAENCLOCHOG 2013

http://hanescymrugoch.blogspot.co.uk/

http://ramrepublicansagainstmonarchy.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/prep-for-14-july-soap-box-republic.html

http://ramrepublicansagainstmonarchy.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/my-little-republican-holiday-14-july.html

http://ramrepublicansagainstmonarchy.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/14-july-maenclochog-bastille-day.html

WAYS IN WHICH I CONCEPTUALIZE REPUBLICANISM and DEMOCRACY By David Lawrence.

To those who might want to understand the ways in which I conceptualise Republicanism and Democracy.

 

[ It turns out that as I click through a long list of people, I want to take this opportunity to show to my religious friends how I fit Quakerism and Republicanism together : they are linked by my concerns to develop a coherent meta-ideology. ]

 

[ " ©#£! " = " It's either Cooperation or Hash / Cash / Bash " - either Republicanism or coercion by numbers ( Democracy ) / economics ( Aristocracy ) / violence ( Monachy ) - unless someone can rhyme -ash again ? ]

This just spilled out by accident, but maybe it will prove useful for you in defining your personal positions in CBRD 2013.

You often seem to be puzzled by my saying that as a ' hard line ' republican I am against voting, yet for the rule of law ...

... but are you also alarmed by my polemicising ' against Democracy ' and ' for Republicanism ' because it is ' religious ' - ?

Are you thinking that I am out of whack, that I am wrong in stating that democracy and republicanism are not the same ?

TEN MINUTES OF EDUCATION IN SOME POLITICAL TERMINOLOGY -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZPZOpFLHVE

BUT !!!! Take it with a pinch of salt, this says that Anarchy is inevitably violent - but Anarchists merely claim that the state is not necessary to the upholding of the law, that people will happily consent to good laws and therefore if ' Y Repwblic ' is both rational and reasonable and taught to people they will recognise it to be so and uphold the law because everybody wants to live peaceably together in goodwill and harmony as created by the justice of those laws ... and no coercion is necessary, since those who have erred are eager to apologise and ardent to be corrected by further education ... some hope, I am not that idealistic about human nature - the institutions of the state are necessary, but they must be held to account and their uses carefully scrutinised and controlled so as not to lead to abuses.

When I talk of Republican Democracy I am talking about that kind of discursive approach to politics which makes decisions without voting but accepts voting as a means to elect representatives, where those making laws and policies have as their prime concern the public interest - the Res Publica. This lessens the abuses caused by those who create political parties in order to be elected to pursue private interests, and other means of decision making can also be devised by selecting instead of electing representatives e.g. from those vulneable minorities who can never get representatives elected, from those specialist disciplines which have expert knowledge of an issue, from campaign groups which can not get their issues adopted onto the manifestos of conventional Democratic Republican parties.

When I talk of Democratic Republicanism I am talking about the conventional approach to politics which makes decisions by voting and uses voting as a means to elect representatives, where minorities have to support a party in the hope but not the certainty that it will fulfill its promises to them, where the sole specialist skill which is exercised is in getting elected and nothing more in the way of skill in actually governing is required of any politician. In Democratic Republicanism decisions are not properly scrutinised and any criticism is ignored because the laws are passed by whips driving their elected representatives through lobbies who have not even read through what they are voting into law. Democratic Republican political parties are coalitions created by representative bartering for a share in the power with their votes, manufacturing manifestos in order to bribe electorates to give them their votes in order to get elected into the assemblies which give this acess to opportunity to barter for a share in the power over the state. Their need for power becomes their main conviction as a Democratic Republican party but their pitch to various voters alludes only to the various political ideas that those voters may want to vote for and so they only paying lip service to the Res Publica.

Thus when I label the conceptions of the Res Publica offered to the electorate in exchange for their votes, I do so in a systematic way, the emphasis being either upon the Public Interest being decided by debating towards a consensus to be achieved by compromise with others - e.g. ' Republican Anarchist ' - or upon a victorious Private Interest to be decided upon by parties winning elections outright or forming a coalition with other elected representatives in order to force a division in which one's own side triumphs by at least one vote in order to enforce a law or policy upon the others. Such laws and policies will of course merely be overturned after the following election and the new laws and policies will in turn be replaced by those that will be overturned in the election that follows that : I call this wasteful narcissistic kind of politics that we are cursed with in the United Kingom either ' pendulum ' or ' see-saw politics.' The counterpart ideology of Democratic Republicanism to that example I might name ' Anarchist Republican ' or ' Democratic Anarchism ' but anyway I regard it as being just one of those six political ideologies of Modern Republicanism ( c1850 - 2050 ? ) which have discarded one of the vita balancing aspects of the original political philosophy of Republican Democracy. I refer to these six Democratic Republicanisms collectively as  ' Voltaires Bastards,' as political ideologies devoid of meta-ideology and the are all that can be found in the text books of political students in the United Kingdom because the original political philosophy of Republican Democracy has been propogandised against for over two hundred years as ' criminal.'

Therefore the defective ' Voltaires Bastards ' are the six ideologies that have come to predominate in political thought in the English-speaking world, each advocating particular ideas of what the Res Publica consists of and seeking to impose them to the exclusion of all other ideas by seizing control of the state to promote their supporters' own private interests. These sectarian private interests are pretended to be ' The Public Interest ' - the ' Res Publica ' - at the expense of the private interests of the supporters of other ideologies which have been chosen to justify other sectarian interests, and in Democratic Republicanism anybody and everybody naturally tries to do the same because this is how Democrats conceive of politics - as a form of civil war pursued with ballots instead of bullets. The ideologies of Democracy in my diagrams are arranged in antagonistic pairs upon three axes ( Anarchism V Conservativism ) ( Socialism V Fascism ) ( Communism V Liberalism ) with Republicanism located in and around the central intersection of these axes, repudiating the faults of each. The implication of the terminology that I use is that no Republican is expected to be poised perfectly and permanently at the centre of this diagram, drawing equally upon ideas from all directions at once, but instead is expected to have personal inclinations to ideologies that they habitually draw upon in contributing to the debate as to what the Res Publica is in examining a particular issue e.g. Anarchist ideas. The distinguishing mark of Republicans is that they are interested in others and willing to adapt and adopt useful ideas from other people's ideological arguments.

After years of casually drawing these 1, 2, 3 and 4-D diagrams as ways of getting myself to think about how people construct and use ideologies, I modified the concept slightly recently to add more ' layers of the sphere of politics ' to consider how the way in which Democracy, which coerces others by the use of numbers at the ballot box, can be used as a disguise for Aristocracy, political parties receiving large amounts of money and resources from those who use these to bribe and coerce them. I can see also that behind that disguise can be Monarchy, ' the Syndicate ' associated with the military-industrial-banking-crime etc complex which coerces others using violence. It becomes immediately obvious then that ' Moral Force Republicanism ' is at the centre of the model, and ' Physical Force Republicanism ' is a species of Monarchism to be located at the surface or exterior of the model, beyond the sphere of politics which ends where war begins. If the centre of the political sphere is the enlightenment of rational reasonable discourse, the politics of Kant's ' Perpetual Peace,' then moving outwards through tints and shades of the colours of the various ideologies employed by Democracy, Aristocracy and Monarchy, to the surface of the sphere of politics, paler grey becomes darkest black and darkness prevails thereafter. The ' White Faction ' and the ' Black Faction ' of Republicanism in Wales can therefore be easily conceptualised as equal and opposite reactions to the failure of the political system of the United Kingdom, some driven by desparation into the outer darkness to prepare for war and others moving hopefully towards the inner light to prepare for peace. It has always been fairly obvious to me that the ' Black Faction ' of Republicanism in Wales was indeed spawned by the ' Black Faction ' that the political parties of the United Kingdom seek to be elected to serve, and that they can equally be regarded as the enemies of the Republic in Wales - as we should also regard any who seek to take control of any government anywhere in the world by the use of violence, economic advantage or force of numbers.

When you can elevate political philosophy this far, way above the grubby tiresome business of getting the drains unblocked, it acquires that aesthetic quality that science has when it draws light and reason out of darkness and  confusion : it becomes a spiritual practice providing a vision to sustain us in the religious exercise of preaching hope to the fuddled masses ... the Republic in Wales is not merely our aspiration but the rule by which we measure injustice by.

 

[ Now I foolishly decided to stay up all night and provide a sheet of those diagrams that I normally scribble on the backs of envelopes for anybody who has not seen them already, so you can forward this email to whomever it may help a bit.]

 

I think that if I do show up at CBRD 2013 I will most probably become very angry and just get pissed because the political situation here is becoming very stressful and watching what normally goes on in the name of ' Republicanism ' - HURTS !

 

Regards,

David B. Lawrence, 

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More results from blogspot.com » The Future Is: "Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game" Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The reason for launching Liberation Magazine is that we take the view you cannot win a game where the rules are made your opponent. In the case of Wales, the British State determines the rules and Welsh people are supposed to play the Welsh Assembly game according to its rules. It is arrogant imperial intellectual and practical colonialism where very important decisions on Welsh Life are taken in London and not Wales. The Welsh are closetly seen has unfit to govern their own country. Liberation Magazine unashamedly stands for a Welsh Socialist Republic an idea that has been maturing in Wales for over a century. The Labour Party and Plaid Cymru in Wales have never really embraced the idea of Welsh Socialist Republic. Sometimes Plaid Cymru flirts with the idea but quickly backtracks under pressure. Monarchism has not only infected the Labour Party but also sections of Plaid Cymru. We launched Liberation Magazine because we want a journal where the Welsh, the Socialist and the Republican cases can be argued and discussed. A new strategy and new tactics needs to be developed for the social and national liberation of Wales in the 21st Century if Wales is to arrest its current trajectory of economic and social decline. Liberation Magazine is about ideas, the precursor of events and the inspirer of people. "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people". Eleanor Roosevelt. Our ambition is to create new ideas and start a winning game for Wales. To order your first copy of the quarterly Liberation Magazine visit here : http://www.alternativebookshop.com/BookDetails.php?bookid=1729 If you want to make bulk/subscription orders or have press enquiries contact: greatunrest2012@gmail.com Partisan Cymru proposes an halfway house prior to establishment of the Wales Socialist Republican Party, a Wales Peoples Republican Congress similar to that of the Irish Workers Republican Congress. This would be as a United Front of Radical Popular Resistance to those who want to see our country become CORPORATE COLONY CYMRU: Left Archive: The Irish Republican Congress Revisted – Patrick ... cedarlounge.wordpress.com/.../left-archive-the-irish-republica... Aug 22, 2011 – “Irish Republican Congress” by George Gilmore « The Cedar Lounge... for John Lumsden -Irish Worker League – 1930 Local Elections Dublin . Irish Republican Army (1922–1969) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Republican_Army_(1922–1969) This article deals with the Irish republican organisation opposed to the Anglo-Irish ...and renewed repression: the 1930s and 1940s; 6 The IRA during World War II ..... or socialist revolution, left to set up a new party, the Republican Congress. Memories of the Republican Congress 1934-84 - Ireland and the ... irelandscw.com/docs-RepCong.htm At present there appears to be an awakening interest in the 1930s. ... Of theRepublican Congress movement in Ireland in the Thirties little has been recorded. Sean Russell and Frank Ryan and the soul of republicanism www.qub.ac.uk/.../SeanRussellandFrankRyanandthesoulofrepu... Our film simplifies the ideological conflict within the IRA to one between the left, ... as dominant within the IRA during the early and mid-1930s as our film suggests. ...portrayed in the clash between Republican Congress marchers and the IRA ... Queen's University Belfast | Figures depicted in the film www.qub.ac.uk/sites/frankryan/.../Figuresdepictedinthefilm/ Embracing socialist republicanism in the 1930s, Ryan became a founding leader of the short-lived but influential Republican Congress, and led the Irish ... Republican Congress : Look Left www.lookleftonline.org › Features Mar 25, 2010 – The Republican Congress attempted to weld internationalism, socialism... March 1934 saw the IRA split, with several of its best-known officers leaving .... The 'Labour News' paper of the late 1930s carried ICA news and Mick  The importance of revolutionary politics : Look Left www.lookleftonline.org › News Jul 17, 2012 – By 1920 he had graduated to intelligence work for the IRA in south .... of the 1930s and was seen as a key link to their Republican Congress ...