![[Alt Text image 4:] people gathered chatting in the miners institute by the stall tables](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:s5utdnjgkx6letmsxlx5lw5r/bafkreief65rg333vof2aldz65hxytqec7xl2yqeofbgvbxo2ljqap7xjje)
[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.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:s5utdnjgkx6letmsxlx5lw5r/bafkreigyuhqu4djquyfeht7e2fcdg76b36nol7nzuojueyhvymqm3szem4)
[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.
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!
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!
WUN members sawing apart old pallets outside the Miners Institute.
Uneven lengths of wood nailed together to make part of a rustic planter.
Cefn Fforest Community Garden begins!
WUN members started work building planters for the Cefn Fforest Miners Institute this week
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
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
Black and white photo of Constance Markievicz, a woman in a military uniform and a feathered haf. To the left of her photo is an Irish Easter Lily logo, and to the right is the Hammer & Pick logo of the Welsh Underground Network. Text reads: "I went out to fight for Ireland's freedom and it does not matter what happens to me. I did what I thought was right and I stand by it." Below this text reads: "Statement in court after the Easter Rising - 1916" Below this text reads: "I do wish your lot had the decency to shoot me" Below this text reads: "Statement upon learning her death sentencd had been commuted - 1916" Below photo text reads: "Constance Markievicz, Irish Socialist Republican, 1868-1927"
Marxist Monday: Constance Markievicz, Irish Socialist Republican 1868-1927
"I went out to fight for Ireland's freedom... and I stand by it."
![[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"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:s5utdnjgkx6letmsxlx5lw5r/bafkreievdk33dzojnwikk5nnno3jjyrxvq3f4dicwals5cacrek2oojizi)
[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.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:s5utdnjgkx6letmsxlx5lw5r/bafkreieuspxbhb7wt5irdkcfatvf6m6lfodhsgg2elxblfivmlp3x7apla)
[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.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:s5utdnjgkx6letmsxlx5lw5r/bafkreicj3t632ivroqka7lb5aqk5nr4kqtk7ax6mjyccbw6xk4dfruw3ye)
[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.
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. 🏴
YSG branded social media tile. Title: Together Cymru Launch Event: Report Thumbnail: Together Cymru logo Pull quote: Most attendees argued that grassroots lacal communities should be the heart of our strategy when opposing Reform and the far right
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.
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.
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.
Joint statement: Oppose the imperialist attack on Iran!
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."
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.
Reform UK threaten Welsh jobs and Welsh education! 🏴📚
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."
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.
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."
A black and yellow text graphic including the the Wrexham Antifacists logo in the bottom right corner reads: "Against fascism, against 'Voice of Wales' Saturday 31st January, 11:00am Queen's Square, Wrexham"
A black and red text graphic including the the Wrexham Antifacists logo in the bottom right corner reads: "Against fascism, against 'Voice of Wales' Saturday 31st January, 11:00am Queen's Square, Wrexham"
A black text graphic on an ombre yellow and pink background, including the the Wrexham Antifacists logo in the bottom right corner reads: "Against fascism, against 'Voice of Wales' Saturday 31st January, 11:00am Queen's Square, Wrexham"
⚠️ 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❤️
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."
Image description: a green image with white text. At the bottom is a drawing of a saint, she’s in a green cloak with a golden circle around her name. Next to her is a heart with a hammer and sickle. Text reads: Dydd Gwyl Dwynwen Hapus Like much of Welsh history from this period, the story of St Dwynwen has become influenced by folklore and local legends, meaning that there are a great many variations in the story of her life from teller to teller. Dwynwen was a fifth century Welsh noblewoman who lived in Ynys Môn. She was the daughter of King Brychan Brycheiniog, who by one telling of the story forbade her marriage to Maelon Dafodrill. In response, Dwynwen prayed she would fall out of love with Maelon. In reply to her prayers, an angel provided Dwynwen with a potion to turn Maelon into ice. God then offered Dwynwen three requests. Dwynwen asked that Maelon be released I, the God look after all true lovers, and that she may remain unmarried. Upon having these wishes granted, Dwynwen travelled to the remote Ynys Landdwyn where she acted as a healer for pilgrims that sought her out until her death in 460 A.D.
Image description: Green image with white text, with a Mari Llwd in the bottom right corner. Text reads: Embracing Our National Folk Culture We live in an age of imperialism. Local folk traditions and stories around the world are being eroded in favour of hegemonic Anglo-American media. Even in cases where local folklore is embraced by capitalist media, it is sanitised and sold back to people in its culture of origin to enrich the owners of media conglomerates. The revolutionary response to this erosion and commodification is to study and embrace the traditions and culture that capitalism cannot co-opt. Our national folklore has survived this long by being passed down in oral and written form from generation to generation. By embracing this, we oppose the capitalist homogenisation of language and culture. In an age of monopoly capitalism, embracing our culture and history is a revolutionary act.
Why do we, communists, honour a Welsh holiday celebrating a Christian saint?
Simple - capitalism seeks to homogenise Wales into being England. To resist capitalism is to protect Welsh history and culture.
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We greatly mourn the loss of Michael Parenti, a Marxist who greatly influenced our membership. As a movement largely made up of people born after the fall of the Soviet Union, he helped wipe away the piles of rubbish heaped on its grave.
Cofiwch Parenti.
Image description: a painting of a crowd, with a figure in red at the front. Text reads: 102 YEARS SINCE THE DEATH OF V.I. LENIN ON THE ANNIVERSARY, WE SHARE THE WORDS OF WELSH POET NICLAS Y GLAIS (T.E. NICHOLAS) WITH THE POEM "LENIN"
LENIN GAN NICLAS Y GLAIS CERDDAIST I GANOL ANNIBENDOD CHWYLDRO, AC I DRUENI CENEDL DAN YR IAU; GELWAIST AR BREIDDIAU DYNOL A FU'N ERWYDRO MEWN ANIALDIROEDD DAN Y DYNAU CAU. ADNABU GWLAD ALWAD EI FFRIND A'I CHEIDWAD, A THYRRU'N FINTAI ITH DDIGURO GAD; A THITHAUN SYMUD DIFROD YR HEN FAMWLAD AG ARFAU CARTEF - DYFAIS GWERIN GWLAD. TYFODD GWAREIDDIAD O'TH DDIODDEF CYNNAR, A BLODAU RHYDDID DYN O SANG DY DRAED; DAETH FFYDD O GOBAITH GWELL I DDALL A BYDDAR, A DYDDIAU HEDDWCH O'R AFONYDD GWAED. DYMCHWELAIST THRONAU'R BYD A DUWIAU'R NEN, A THYNNU DIAL MAMON AM DY BEN.
LENIN BY NICLAS Y GLAIS YOU STRODE INTO THE MIDST OF A REVOLUTION'S CHAOS, INTO THE WRETCHEDNESS OF A NATION BENT BENEATH THE YOKE; YOU CALLED UPON FLOCKS OF HUMANITY WHO WANDERED THE WILDERNESS BENEATH THE CLENCHED FIST. A LAND RECOGNISED THE CALL OF IT'S FRIEND AND SAVIOUR, AND SURGED TOGETHER TO BATTLE IN A HOST FOR YOUR INVINCIBLE CAUSE, WHILST YOU MADE GOOD THE DAMAGE TO THE ANCIENT MOTHERLAND WITH HOME-MADE WEAPONS - THE FRUIT OF THE COMMON PEOPLE'S GENIUS. FROM YOUR EARLY SUFFERING GREW A CIVILISATION, AND IN YOUR FOOTPRINTS GREW THE FLOWERS OF FREEDOM TO DEAF AND BLIND COME FAITH AND HOPE, AND OUT OF THE RIVERS OF BLOOD CAME DAYS OF PEACE, THE WORLD'S THRONES AND HEAVEN'S GODS YOU OVERTHREW, AND DREW THE WRATH OF MAMMON ON YOUR HEAD.
On the 21st of January, 1924, Vladimir Lenin, the great revolutionary passed away.
We share the words of Welsh poet Niclas y Glais, a poet, communist and Welsh language campaigner.
Image description: an explosion at night Text reads: PARTY STATEMENT ON IMPERIALIST ATTACK ON VENEZUELA
🚨 STATEMENT
“Plaid Gomiwnyddol Cymru (the Communist Party of Wales) condemns the criminal attack launched by the United States of America against the sovereign Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in the early hours of Saturday the 3rd of January.”
An image of a red flag with a the hammer and sickle of Plaid Gomiwnyddol Cymru, a dragons tongue forms the end of the sickle. Underneath is the flag of Wales, a red dragon on white and green. Text reads: BLWYDDYN NEWYDD DDA OUR NEW YEARS RESOLUTION IS TO RAISE THE RED FLAG OVER WALES - YMUNWCH!
If you woke up today, and decided that you’re sick of the poverty in Wales, of the bosses cutting your pay, of the landlords, why not join the fight for a better Wales and a better world?
Join the fight today!
