And there's a mighty judgement coming...the Welsh Road to Eco-socialism

Now you can say that I've grown bitter but of this you may be sure
The rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor
And there's a mighty judgement coming, but I may be wrong
You see, you hear these funny voices
In the Tower of Song

I see you standing on the other side
I don't know how the river got so wide
I loved you baby, way back when
And all the bridges are burning that we might have crossed
But I feel so close to everything that we lost
We'll never have to lose it again

Now I bid you farewell, I don't know when I'll be back
There moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track
But you'll be hearing from me baby, long after I'm gone
I'll be speaking to you sweetly
From a window in the Tower of Song

There is an urgent need for a clear Welsh Road to Ecosocialism. Wales needs to be an independent Welsh republic. It needs to make real the aims of the old Welsh Republican movement. Its needs to be inclusive that all people who live in Wales are Welsh. That the issues of land and property must be dealt with, that there must be a fair and equal distribution of that land and property.

There must be a realisation that Welsh industrialists are the same as industrialists from anywhere else. The issue is class, poor housing the lack of well-paid jobs, the deskilling of workers is a product of capitalism. The problem is capitalism the word English is a descriptive noun and not the cause. The cause is the economic system and not the English.

Wales needs to be proud of its language and culture, there should be more education and awareness within our education system we need to know our folk tales , our history and our literature. My Great grand parents are Exiles from Ynys Mon and Beaumaris. I have a faint Midlands accent but my origins are Welsh and I returned here at 16 and have been here ever since. I am Welsh and proud of it but I want an Ecosocialist Wales, where we allow communities to own renewable sources of energy, a clear non-Nuclear Wales, a Wales outside of NATO and a classless multicultural Wales that knows both its past and its future and the direction it is going in. A Wales within a Europe of the regions and A Wales that follows the Scandinavian model, a Wales that rejects austerity and the doctrines of neo-liberalism. 

The old Welsh Republican Socialists have become bitter and vanished in some cases out of politics and in other cases into Plaid Cymru where they rage and take their anger out against wind farms. Some of them now use offensive language that if you substituted Jew or Pakistani for English you would find yourself be guilty of racism. This is an example I saw recently..it shows the bitterness of age , of disillusionment and the rise of xenophobia  

“too much of their funding on housing misfits, criminals and others from England with no local connections. I stand by that; and everyone who knows this field knows I'm right. They may deny it, they may call me names, but they know I'm right.

As for "Scouse junkies", that was a specific reference to what happens in the decaying resorts along the north coast. I stand by it because, again, it's the truth.

Yes, earlier this year I put up a sidebar panel with a Confederate battle flag. I did it because that flag does not represent racism, it remembers brave men who fought for four years against overwhelming odds, and is part of the heritage of Southern whites. If black activists, white leftists and others are so intolerant that they wish to defame those brave men, and their descendants, then don’t expect a free-thinking man like me to fall into line with this hatred and censorship.

In fact, I stand by everything I write, because I have beliefs, and because I don’t care what creatures like you think. You, however have a couple of apologies to make. “

Plaid has within in it a group that is hopeful. I was cheered by the elction of Leanne Wood some years ago, there is Ill Evans as well and there are activists like Ian Titherington and others and yet I have seen sneering by Plaid spokespeople against the Labour DEFRA Shadow minister because she is an animal rights supporter and a vegan. Plaid Councillors have voted against renewable energy again and again and although there are honourable exceptions I sense a golden boy, Rhun ap Iorwerth waiting in the wings. If UKIP surge in May 2016 the Welsh Farming Union men in boots will tell Leanne that time has come and in the aftermath Plaid will move to the right in the contest between Elin “badger” Jones and Rhun.

As I write Labour is in turmoil an honourable figure like Jeremy Corbyn is being attacked by the major institutions of the UK state. The labour party membership is far more progressive, anti-nuclear, socialist and radical than  the PLP Yet that parliamentary party is close to a position of declaring unilateral independence from the mass membership. The Welsh labour party is worse I have just finished reading a long  email that Christina Rees the Labour MP for Neath sent to one of our activists. The crucial passage was this

“If the government now has a proposal to bring forward relating to airstrikes against ISIL/Daesh in Syria then – as we have consistently said, and our position has not changed – we will consider it against the tests we have set. We need to be clear about what difference any extension of military action would make to our objective of defeating ISIL/Daesh, the nature of any intervention, its objectives and the legal basis. Any potential action must command the support of other nations in the region, including Iraq and the coalition already taking action in Syria. And, crucially, it must be part of a wider and more comprehensive strategy to end the threat they pose and the Government must seek a Security Council resolution for it. “

What a contrast to Corbyn's honest, clear position. If Labour lose the Oldham by-election next week. The parliamentary party will launch a civil war within Labour. The new activists will be ignored and the oligarchs of Welsh labour will strangle the Momentum before it is grown. Both the radicals within Plaid and the radicals of the Cobynistas will have nowhere to go except out of their respective parties. Many of these activists could well form the activists of a welsh republican movement.

There are still those in wales who cling to the traditions of the old "Brit Left" and this is sad. The end of the British State and of the United Kingdom is the key to this new Wales, an independent Scotland and a united Ireland. I fear that within both Plaid and the SNP I see the ghost of Devalera where the old institutions and classes dominate defended by the acclaim “ But at least they are Welsh or  Scottish and I can imagine the panoply of state and the first warship of a “Welsh navy” but then again I am rather cynical ........

Within the Greens there is a pressing need for an independent We;sh Green Party, that recognises we are another country, another culture and that the Green party here is not a regional branch of the London-based party. The Green party in Wales has nearly three thousand members, it will be contesting all the seats for the Assembly elections in May 2016. It now has promising candidates for Leader and Deputy Leader. Anthony Slaughter offers a safe and radical pair of hands for the immediate future.

The unique Welsh brand of the Ecosocialism will come fromm people like the Deputy Leadership candidate Hannah Pudner. Hannah is from Skewen, she comes from a clear Socialist and radical background. Other Green shoots emerge from the excellent Adam Taxiboi-Smith, organiser of the thriving LGBTIQ group within the Welsh Green party and  Amelia Womack born in Newport has returned to Wales. The roots are strong and however turbulent the next few weeks are to be the clear message is that the Welsh Green party has taken a massive step forward. The careerists may have left but those loyal to Eco-Socialism and the Welsh Identity remain. The Wales Green party will be a key player in the emergence of a Red Green Welsh  Republican movement.

Its eleven years since I stood down as the first Leader of the Welsh green party. The party in that time has moved forward, it`s become inclusive and more radical, it is attracting new converts, new activists and is gaining a clear identity. Pippa has added much to this over the last few years and hands on a hopeful and bright future.

I am greatly relieved that because of my “past sins” that I cannot stand for elected office. It`s a good thing it saves  you from your own ego, your own ambitions  and it ensures that your hopes and dreams and outlook exist outside of yourself. It looks like our own wonder boy, our own Rhun Ap Ioerwith has left us. I expect that very soon they will be in the same party. Both are clearly pro-Nuclear or will soon say so There is a mighty judgement coming but I may be wrong............

Give me back my broken night
my mirrored room, my secret life
it's lonely here,
there's no one left to torture
Give me absolute control
over every living soul
And lie beside me, baby,
that's an order!
Give me crack and anal sex
Take the only tree that's left
and stuff it up the hole
in your culture
Give me back the Berlin wall
give me Stalin and St Paul
I've seen the future, brother:
it is murder.