DEREK DAVIES Socialism for: the People, a pamphlet written by Gareth Miles and Robert HN THE late 1960s, when British politics Wass Sthe Vietnam Solidarity ampaign, hundreds of young people in Wales fought to get Welsh accepted as the day-to-day language of public instituKoad signs were daubed, acal authorities picketed. The ash nationalist movement ad revived.
Movement Socialism for the ople, in inspiration and intion, is firmly based on that nationalist movement of explicitly say sO; ay at a time when some nationalists, out ration, have turned to armity also exists are m the pamphlet.
Weish state is called for; Plaid Cymru's strategy is firmly rejected; the possibility of setting up an independent Welsh socialist party is discussed and the LabourPlaid plans for Assembly are attacked. But no precise, detailed conies across. Electoralism If Plaid's passive toralism is not the way, is? And if you're against a powerless assembly, for a parliament with 'full' powers?
The pamphlet rejects the multi-class 'socialism' reform peddled by the Labour and Communist Wales. what strategy can unite the Welsh in mass action? What forms of organisation should that mass par- take? should be taken to the mass of organisations of the workers, especially BOORS Historical observations hint ai gul-reactions to these propresent blems, but they are often inaccurate. 'John MacLean's section the Scottish working class', but no reason is given why it retoothless mained only a section.
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Welsh workers decided to come elec- together on an all-British level. Nor does it deal with the promi nent role of the South are you Miners' Federation in the creathrough parties The pamphlet highspots of the Welsh class working class struggle that contradict its 'national identitv' workers councils attitude Strike, unemployed movement of the '30s, the solidarity the trade with Republican Spain are consequently undervalued.
The authors are therefore able to avoid explaining why, during the nost militant and class conscious Welsh working Reference is made to of the demand class given enough prominence. of regional Start explanation is Scottish and Socialism for Wales welcomed.
Wales is kept bourgeois state, 611] how language are to avoids the now strong Chena. The tionalism, in the 1926 the campaign ticularly good periods of for separate Welsh state was not raised. Nor is the united front of working organisations in Wales the People is not a finished product, but a starting point for a 2$3.95 discussion. As such it is to be By exploding the myth that Dy Ine by pointing g important the and land questions been given inspiration from the tradition of Irish na. the pamphlet cuucatioli any British socialist to read.
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