This was our tenth workshop, all of which are working toward establishing the basis of a manifesto for consideration at the Cymru’n Codi founding congress in the Autumn of 2025. Here is the report and links to the previous workshops and the decisions made at the 10 May Cymru Radical Left Dialogue meeting that started the process of establishing Cymru’n Codi as an ecosocialist movement for Cymru and internationally.

Introduction Class For Marx class is not a descriptive or definitional category, but is a key part of understanding the historical and dynamic process of capitalist exploitation. Marx argued that profit was sourced in the production of surplus value: M¹-C-M². M money is used to purchase C commodities that produce value that can be sold as a surplus M². The C commodities are composed of fixed and variable capital.

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