Seren Werdd..the Welsh Green party looks to the future

"Welsh independence is not the property of any single political party but a political ambition that Wales should aspire to. #indyWales
#YesCymru has got it right.Tried to enunciate that for decades - even in late 60s and early 70s
Our nationhood, anthem, national emblems, language and culture belongs to us all.That is the challenge to gain people's trust and belief. Any party claiming ownership for itself actually delays the advancement towards self determination". Gwynoro Jones

Many of us have long believed in an independent Wales Green party in an Independent Wales As the Welsh Green party considers the way ahead it is quite clear that many are in favour of a Welsh Republican Socialist approach that ties Ecosocialism, to a Welsh cultural and political agenda. We will will be campaigning for the tradition and for the aims statement of  the Seren Werdd declaration,

“Our aim is to create an Independent Welsh Green party. We seek an independent socialist and green Wales. A Wales where power is devolved to the lowest possible administrative unit. A Wales where its people are aware of it culture, history and language and which is fully bilingual and multi cultural. A Wales that supports workers rights, public services and a comprehensive welfare system. A Wales that protects the rights of animals to be free from exploitation. We are opposed to Nuclear Power and seek a Wales powered by renewables that are owned by the communities of Wales. We seek a Wales that is a non-aligned, neutral republic and which is free from the arms industry”.

There will be a group formed to campaign for this agenda. Events will be organised and Social Media will be used. Please look out for drtails in the coming few weeks.

We live in a post industrial society, we must take on board the idea of a citizens income that is paid to people because of where they live rather than what they do. Poorer people and moderately paid people spend more of their income in the locality, they support more local services and they create more jobs because of this demand. The wealthy, the large corporations are locked into the economy of mass production, low wages and the race to the economic bottom. The ordinary people are not the ones who will exhaust the finite resources of the world that will be done by the large corporations and the hypnosis of consumerism used to keep us quiet.

Corbyn and MacDonald understand that and show signs of progress. The Labour Party is a coalition and within it lurks the unimaginative inner conservative that has not joined up the thoughts of what society is, how we are citizens irrespective of our work. A citizen income would break up the right wing world view about the scrounger and the migrant. It would show that all of us who live here are Welsh, citizens and people who all contribute in numerous ways from economic production, to wisdom and insight.

There has never been a greater need for a Green party perhaps it will form part of a progressive alliance. However the value of alliance can only really happen if Plaid and others decide once and for all that they are a decentralised socialist party and that independence for Wales means far more than a Welsh brand of austerity or a Welsh “ aircraft-carrier” During the 20s and the 30s the Communist party fed a creative current into the left within Wales as whole. Perhaps this may be a role for the Greens in feeding these ideas into a Cobymite Labour Party and to keep it honest creative and critical

The brutal destruction of the Coal mines by the Thatcher government was a brutal attack on the communities of Wales. The coal industry has shaped our geography and our people but that is not all that Wales was and is. The Coal mines needed gradually phasing out and its workers retrained and given new opportunities. We must not romanticise the coal industry it was important and essential to our development and culture. We must challenge the inner conservative within that is largely macho, male and industrial. We are in a different world and there has never been more need of a Welsh Green Party that is Ecosocialist and supports an independent Wales. It must be a Wales within Europe and a non aligned, neutral country. Last year I summed it up as follows.in the Seren2020 declaration. Last year  Paul Masson called for Scottish Labour members to support an independent Scotland it upset the conservatives within and it must cause a paroxysm of fear amongst the monolithic conservative members of Welsh Labour. The Corbynistas have a long way to go in Wales And I wonder when the issue of an independent Welsh labour party will appear across the surface of their minds.

The Good Friday agreement for peace in Northern Ireland includes the provision for a referendum on reuniting with the Irish Republic . How ironic that kipper nationalism has made it all possible. This morning I was called a traitor for speculating on the break up of the United Kingdom.As time goes on I see more and more how the "victory" of Brexit is withering on the vine.The intense anger flowing from the right makes them seem as if they had lost the referendum on June 23 .Instead their calls become more angry , more shrill, their language worsens and their projections more desperate and the group's they condemning widen ...Let's kick England out of the Union ...It will save many problems....Lol..Each day I come across more and more people calling for an independent Wales .Since Brexit the lust grows and grows and the characters supporting it surprise me more and more....Oh the unintended consequences....Of the Little Englanders...Farage as mid wife of an independent Wales ..How. Sweet ..How amusing .....I sense somewhere Max Weber and Louis Althusser smile as the contradictions become clear, revealed and exoteric ....