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Wales' largest Revolutionary Republican movement ☭ For Socialism, Independence, and Community Action! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 28/09/2026
This weekend our members attended the independence march in Aberystwyth.
A crowd in front of St. Michael's church. Y Ddraig Goch is prominent in the picture. A crowd in front of St. Michael's church with flags.People sitting and standing before a stand with Palestine flags visible.Cuban and Palestinian flags together with Welsh flags.
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Plaid Gomiwnyddol Cymru / The Communist Party of Wales @communists.cymru · 27/09/2026
Party Statement - On The Standoff at Garvaghy Road Feel free to read on our website: communists.wales/2026/09/27/o...
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 24/09/2026
The presence of the British military in Wales is increasingly a risk to the health and wellbeing of the people of Wales. 🔥 Get militarism out of Wales now! ✊ #Wales #Cymru #Military #Crash #YnysMônTAKING
KICK MILITARISM
OUT OF WALES

Yesterday, an RAF jet crashed into a field on Ynys Môn only narrowly avoiding the tragedy of destroying a home. 

This is an extreme example of the wider impact military bases have on Wales every day.

The military low-flying area that covers most of Wales is one of the busiest in the UK. Wales is only 8% of the land in the UK; its airspace accounts for around 15% of the UK military's daytime low-flying hours.

Aside from planes falling from our skies, there are other clear risks of living near British military bases. For example, recent reports link PFAS chemical spillages to MOD sites, as well as the potentially devastating impact these sites have on local ecology and wildlife; the environmental impact cannot be understated.

Similarly, the psychological impact should not be ignored: the sudden and intense noise of aircraft can understandably affect people's mental health, sleep, and cardiovascular health.

This latest military blunder coming just weeks after the 100 year anniversary of Tân Yn Llyn should not be lost on anyone.

KEEP READING

ECHOES OF THE PAST

The 8th of September this year marked the 100 year anniversary of ‘Tân yn Llŷn’ when three men set fire to a bombing school being built on the Llŷn Peninsula.

The government settled on the Llŷn as the location for the school after plans to build it in Northumberland and Dorset were met with protests; the site chosen in Wales required the demolition of Penyberth farmhouse, a site of cultural significance, and while this was met with protest, unlike at the sites in England, they were ignored, which led to the burning.

Today the MOD controls 23,000 hectares of Welsh land, and we’re told this is the price we have to pay for “defence”; however, these bases are not used to defend the people of Wales. Instead, they are used to train israeli drones and partake in genocide.

The echoes of Tân Yn Llŷn are seen clearly today. The British state thought then, as they do now, that they could get away with this dangerous disregard for life, particularly in Y Fro Gymraeg; after centuries of underdevelopment and repression, the people of Wales won’t fight back.

They were wrong 100 years ago.
They are wrong today.

TAKING A STAND

There are groups and campaigns in Wales taking a stand

Here are a few:

Heddwch ar Waith - A coalition of groups and campaigns in Wales focusing on demilitarisation and justice, with a focus on ‘positive peace ’. Heddwch has undertaken the monumental task of mapping militarism in Wales, from Elbit Systems testing drones over our seas to the over 90 defence contractors in Wales, making the public aware of the wide-ranging and entrenched militarism in Wales is no small feat.
PARC Against DARC - The slightly rebranded successor to the very successful Pembrokeshire Against the Radar campaign, PARC Against DARC has been fighting against the proposal to build Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability in Pembrokeshire, West Wales, a move that would harm the delicate coastal environment and make Wales unwilling participants in American warmongering.
West Wales Against Arms - An activist group fighting against the usage of our land and seas for military training and protesting against arms factories and arms fairs in Wales and the UK
CND Cymru -  The Welsh branch of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is working to denuclearise Wales and the UK, as well as campaigning for peace, justice and the environment, as well as opposing the arms trade. With the world teetering on the brink of catastrophe, this cause is more important than ever.
Stop the War Cymru - Stop the War Cymru is a group campaigning against war and militarism in Wales. It is the Welsh branch of the Stop the War Coalition and has recently been involved in events highlighting the UK’s complicity in the war on Iran.

Join the movement for a safer, more peaceful Wales today!
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 23/09/2026
Want independence and socialism for Wales? Join the Welsh Underground Network, the country's premier Socialist Republican group! WUN members met in Wrecsam for our fifth Cyngres. You can learn more about the Socialist Republican movement in our 2026 Cyngres report on Y Seren Goch's website.
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 22/09/2026
Cofiwch Gresford 🕯️
COFIWCH GRESFORD

On this day 92 years ago, an explosion in the Dennis shaft at the Gresford Colliery near Wrecsam led to the deaths of 266 men and boys.

They were sent down that pit to feed the furnaces of an empire that took everything from them and gave them nothing.

This preventable disaster still scars the community to this day, and will only begin to heal when the explotation and neglect that caused it come to an end.THE GRESFORD DISASTER

You’ve heard of the Gresford disaster,
And the terrible price that was paid.

Two hundred and forty-two colliers were lost,
And three men of a rescue brigade.

It occurred in the month of September,
At three in the morning, that pit
Was racked by a violent explosion
In the Dennis where gas lay so thick.

The gas in the Dennis deep section
Was packed there like snow in a drift,
And many a man had to leave the coal-face
Before he had worked out his shift.

A fortnight before the explosion.
To the shotfirer, Tomlinson cried:
“If you fire that shot we’ll be all blown to hell!”
And no one can say that he lied.

The fireman’s reports they are missing.
The records of forty-two days;
The colliery manager had them destroyed
To cover his criminal ways.

Down there in the dark they are lying,
They died for nine shillings a day.

They have worked out their shift and now they must
In the darkness until Judgement Day.

The Lord Mayor of London’s collecting
To help both our children and wives.

The owners have sent some white lilies
To pay for the poor colliers’ lives.

Farewell, our dear wives and our children,
Farewell, our old comrades as well.

Don’t send your sons down the dark dreary pit;
They’ll be damned like the sinners in hell.
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 20/09/2026
This weekend WUN members continued their work helping to rebuild the Cefn Fforest Miners Institute. Our communities have been impoverished by big business and their politicians, but this project demonstrates what can be achieved when we organise the people power still present in those communities.
Socialist Republicans pose with an 1831 flag in front of the stute..
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 16/09/2026
Yn Rhwydwaith Cymru Tan-ddaear, rydyn ni'n credu ni fydd San Steffan byth yn caniatáu Cymru i adael yr Undeb yn rhydd. Ni fydd annibyniaeth go-iawn ddim wedi'i rhoi i ni, fe wnawn ni gymryd fe. Gall dim ond dosbarth gweithiol trefnus sicrháu rhyddhad cenedlaethol.
[Alt 1:] Mae'r prif weinidogion Cymru, gogledd Iwerddon a'r Alban yn arwyddo datganiad ar y cyd i alw am hawl i gael refferenda annibyniaeth.

Achos mae llwydodraethau cenedlaetholgar ym mhob llywodraeth wedi'i datganoli, mae'n edrych yn fwy posibl nag erioed basai'r Teyrnas Unedig yn gwahanu.

All yr arweinyddion yma sicrháu annibyniaeth?

Yn Rhwydwaith Cymru Tan-ddaear, rydyn ni'n credu ni fydd San Steffan byth yn caniatáu Cymru i adael yr Undeb yn rhydd.

Trowch y dudalen i ddysgu pam...[Alt 2:] Ni fydd y dosbarth cyfalafwyr ddim yn derbyn llai na mynediad cyfan a diderfyn i dir, llafur ac adroddiadau Cymru. Nôd annibyniaeth am Gymru yw cymryd rheolaeth o'r pethau hynny. Mae hynny'n golygu dydy annibyniaeth go-iawn ddim yn opsiwn am San Steffan.

Unrhyw bwerau wedi'u rhoi i Gymru yw pwerau yn enw yn unig: Gall San Steffan a'i feistri cafalafwyr ein goruwchreoli unrhywbryd maen nhw eisiau. Bydd unrhyw 'annibyniaeth' wedi'i rhoi i ni yn enw yn unig hefyd: basai cyfalafwyr Prydeinig yn parhau ein rheoli ni.

Ni fydd San Steffan byth yn caniatáu y mwyafrif o'r Cymry, y dosbarth gweithiol, i gymryd rheolaeth o'n cymdeithas ni. Ni fydd annibyniaeth go-iawn ddim wedi'i rhoi i ni, fe wnawn ni gymryd fe. Gall dim ond dosbarth gweithiol trefnus sicrháu rhyddhad cenedlaethol.

Ymlaen i Weriniaeth Sosialaidd Cymru!
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 14/09/2026
On behalf of the Socialist Republican movement, members of the WUN painted the back wall of the Cefn Fforest Miners Institute this weekend. We're looking to help out more fantastic community rebuilding projects like this one, so contact us if you have any leads.
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 13/09/2026
Nationalist governments in Wales, Scotland and the north of Ireland openly talking about independence is good news, but this will prove a dead end for national liberation. Britain will never freely let us go. Only an organised working class taking power can deliver independence for Wales.
Image: Photos of Rhun ap Iorweth, Michelle O'Neill and John Swinney. 

Text: The First Ministers of Wales, the north of Ireland and Scotland are signing a joint declaration demanding the right to hold independence referendums.

With nationalist governments in every devolved government, a breakup of the UK seems more possible than ever.

Can these leaders Really secure Independence?

In the Welsh Underground Network we believe Westminster will never freely let Wales leave the union.

Turn the page to Learn why...Image: Photos of the Senedd, Stormont and Hollyrood. 

Text: The capitalist class will accept nothing less than complete and unrestricted access to Welsh land, labour and resources. Welsh people’s interest in independence is in taking control of those things. This means genuine independence is off the table.

Any “powers” given to Wales are power in name only: Westminster and its capitalist paymasters can overrule us at will. Any “independence” given to us will also be in name only: British capitalists will still rule us.

Westminster will never allow the vast majority of the Welsh people, the working class, to take control of the society we live in. True independence will not be given to us, we will take it. Only an organised working class can deliver national liberation.

FORWARDS TO A SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF WALES!
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 07/09/2026
Marxist Monday: Kwame Ture, Pan-African Socialist 1941-1998 "You vote once in four years and that's your political responsibility? Politics is every day."
Black and white photo of Kwame Ture, a black man wearing a suit with a spotty tie and smiling. To the left of his photo is a Pan-African flag, and to the right is the Hammer & Pick logo of the Welsh Underground Network.

Text reads: "The vote to me has never been the road to liberation... You vote once in four years and that's your political responsibility? Politics is every day."

Below this text reads: "Interview - 1996"

Below photo text reads: "Kwame Ture, Pan-African Socialist, 1941-1998
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 31/08/2026
A plaque commemorating the Abergele Martyrs recently disappeared without explaination. Locals were wondering where it went and asking for its return, so we stepped in to help. A shiny new memorial plaque has now been made and installed by Welsh Underground Network members
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Y Seren Goch @yserengoch.cymru · 29/08/2026
Darllenwch yma: yserengoch.cymru/2026/08/29/o...
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Oppose transphobic libel on Welsh Government funded news site
On the 20th of this month, the veteran journalist and associate editor of Nation.Cymru, Martin Shipton, published a hit piece on that website against the Welsh Gender Service. This article is an ex…
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 27/08/2026
Transphobic attacks on the Welsh Gender Service, supported by supposedly reputable media outlets like Nation Cymru, have now bourne fruit: Our sources in the trans community tell us that the Cardiff GIC has begun cancelling scheduled surgeries for trans patients.
Over the past few weeks an attack has been launched on the Welsh Gender Service, spearheaded by right wing politicians but supported by supposedly reputable media outlets like Nation Cymru.

Now our sources in the trans community tell us that the Cardiff GIC has begun cancelling scheduled surgeries for trans patients.

As far as we know no news outlet has picked up this story yet so we feel a duty to inform our followers.We welcome the organic response already forming in the trans community, but its clear that the current methods of marches, lobbying and so on are no longer sufficient.

Trans people and our cis allies need to organise to directly take on the transphobic apparatus denying us healthcare, and keep working to build strong DIY networks in the meantime.

If there's a trans person in your community struggling today, lend them your strength. Remember, the only antidote to despair is action.
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 27/08/2026
Transphobic attacks on the Welsh Gender Service, supported by supposedly reputable media outlets like Nation Cymru, have now bourne fruit: Our sources in the trans community tell us that the Cardiff GIC has begun cancelling scheduled surgeries for trans patients.
Over the past few weeks an attack has been launched on the Welsh Gender Service, spearheaded by right wing politicians but supported by supposedly reputable media outlets like Nation Cymru.

Now our sources in the trans community tell us that the Cardiff GIC has begun cancelling scheduled surgeries for trans patients.

As far as we know no news outlet has picked up this story yet so we feel a duty to inform our followers.We welcome the organic response already forming in the trans community, but its clear that the current methods of marches, lobbying and so on are no longer sufficient.

Trans people and our cis allies need to organise to directly take on the transphobic apparatus denying us healthcare, and keep working to build strong DIY networks in the meantime.

If there's a trans person in your community struggling today, lend them your strength. Remember, the only antidote to despair is action.
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 21/08/2026
ACORN Wales Union members stormed Welsh Water offices to hold a people's tribunal on rising bills, sewage dumping and high corporate salaries: www.instagram.com/reel/DcTs0GI...
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 14/08/2026
🔥Burnham’s Bonfires🔥 The government’s totally inadequate response to the ongoing wildfires shows a shocking lack of concern for the people of this country, and breathtaking levels of incompetence.
Burnham’s Bonfires

The government’s totally inadequate response to the ongoing wildfires shows a shocking lack of concern for the people of this country, and breathtaking levels of incompetence.

Is a phone alert and a *temporary ban* on disposable barbecues really all Burnham can come up with? It is genuinely pathetic. This is totally unserious politics from Labour, who call themselves the “adults in the room”.

People have been warning about climate change for decades and all the government has done is kick the can down the road. 

Now the disasters have crept closer and closer until they’re outside your front door, and the politicians are *still* talking about North Sea drilling. They won’t even *mention* the climate anymore.

The capitalist class would rather see us burned alive than surrender even £1 of oil profits, and Burnham is their willing servant.Coelcerthi Burnham

Mae’r ymateb hollol annigonol y llywodraeth i’r tanau gwyllt yn dangos diffyg gofal am bobl Cymru.

Ai rhybuddion ffôn a gwahardd barbeciws am y tro yw’r cyfan y gall Burnham a’i griw ei gynnig inni? Gwarthus. Am fod y blaid sydd yn galw ei hwn yr “oedolion yn yr ystafell”, mae’r ymateb hwn yn gwbl anaddas. 

Mae gwyddonwyr wedi bod ein rhybuddio am newid hinsawdd ers ddegawdau a ‘na gyd mae’r llywodraeth wedi wneud yw  anwybyddu’r trychinebau sydd i ddod.

Nawr mae’r trychinebau yn cropian agosâ ac yn agosâ nes eu bod nhw wrth eich drws; serch hynny, mae’r llywodraeth *o hyd* yn sgwrsio am ddrilio ym Môr y Gogledd.

Byddai’n well gan y dosbarth cyfalafol ein gweld ni’n llosgi na ildio hyd yn oed £1 o’u helw olew, ac mae Burnham yn was awyddus iddyn nhw.
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 12/08/2026
The blistering sun may have killed off the peas and beans, but our garden has been able to produce a variety of fruit and veg! Our members spent a few hours of their time harvesting tomatoes, plums, apples, and giant aubergines that were planted earlier in the year. A lovely day for lovely food.
An apple tree envelopes the camera. A mix of under ripe and ready to eat pink lady-like apples hang from the branches amongst the vibrant leaves.A member of the Welsh Underground Network is crouching down and harvesting a giant aubergine from a greenhouse. The aubergine is a deep, deep purple. There are many more aubergines that are ready to be harvested, as well as a large watering can at the bottom of the photo.A large bucket consisting of small red and yellow tomatoes, fresh from their plant.On top of a wooden table is a bowl of crumble. This was made by a member of the WUN for everyone who tended to the garden that evening, The crumble's made of hand picked apples, rhubarb and blackberries, as well as a topping of oats and ice cream!
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 10/08/2026
MARXIST MONDAY - Inessa Armand, Bolshevik Revolutionary, 1874-1920 "In... Soviet Russia, the new woman is... a woman fighter... liberated from her social and economic shackles.
At the centre of the post is a circular black and white photo of Inessa Arman, a Bolshevik Revolutionary, born 1874, died 1920. To her left, an image of the communist Hammer and Sickle symbol sits. To her right, the WUN's Hammer and Pickaxe logo. There are two small paragraphs of text on the page quoting Inessa Armand from Women Workers in the Third International (1920), that reads:

"Women workers felt that the October Revolution meant for them the possibility of total liberation...

In... Soviet Russia, the new woman is... a woman fighter... liberated from her social and economic shackles."

Footing the post are the WUN's social media pages on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Bluesky. The website Welshundergroundnetwork.com is also at the foot of the post.
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 06/08/2026
On Sunday, several PGC and WUN members went on an eight mile walk at Sugerloaf mountain, near Abergavenny. We had a lovely day out appreciating our mountains and beautiful national landscape.
Two PGC members posing on the rocks of Sugar Loaf, with mountains and valleys visible beyond.
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 05/08/2026
The Welsh Underground Network's Statement Regarding the EHRC's Anti-Trans Guidance
This first page is titled "FUCK THE EHRC". Underneath, is a large picture consisting of the Transgender flag with the Welsh Underground Network's red hammer and pickaxe logo. There are three paragraphs of text underneath that read:

"With the anti-trans guidance of the so-called Equality & Human Rights Commission coming into effect today the trans community faces an attempt to segregate it out of public life.

Make no mistake, there is no real conflict between the rights of cis women and trans women. The interests of trans people align with the real interests of women and of the working class generally.

Hate groups, aided by politicians and the media, have constructed a narrative of conflict between cis and trans women in order to attack trans people and weaken the feminist movement."

At the footing, are the Welsh Underground Network's social media handles and website link.Page two is titled "SOLIDARITY MUST MEAN SOMETHING" with an image of the Transgender flag on its lonesome. There are three paragraphs of text underneath this image that read:

"When a minority section of the working class comes under attack it is the duty of the whole class to rally around them.

Cis people thus have a responsibility to actively aid the struggle of trans people - not just with words but with deeds.

Trans people face a crisis of segregation but also a crisis of unemplyoment, housing and healthcare access. Back up your statements of support with real material support for your trans co-workers, neigbours, friends & family."

In bold at the bottom of the page, is a call to action "Stand together, resist segregation, do not comply."

The footing of the page are the WUN's social media links and website link.
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 03/08/2026
MARXIST MONDAY - John Jenkins ‘Letter to Cyril Hodes', 31st March 1972 J. Jenkins and R. Williams (ed.), Prison Letters (2019), pp. 47-49, p. 48.
Central in the post is a grayscale photograph of John Jenkins, a large smile on his face. To his left, the Y Ddraig, and to his right, the WUN Hammer and Pickaxe logo. 

The post contains a paragraph of text, that reads:
"It is a sad fact that many orthodox nationalists believe that running up a flag over Caerdydd City Hall will achieve wonders, and is the culmination of all our hopes and dreams. I believe, with you, that the flags marks the placing of the Welsh foot on the lowest rung of a long ladder; it is the first step of a thousand miles, definite but not by any manner of means, final.”

Below his photo, a title "JOHN JENKINS", and subtitled "WELSH SOCIALIST REPUBLICAN, 1993-2020." Footing the page are the WUN's social media pages.
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 02/08/2026
The class struggle is here and it is not going away. Our bills are stacking up, there are bailiffs at our houses, and we're selling all our time to barely get by. Our only choice is whether we struggle together and win, or struggle alone and lose. @acorncardiff.bsky.social
"SUPPORT THE ACORN BAILIFF CAMPAIGN!" is draped across the top of the page in big bold letters. Underneath are three images, all of various ACORN actions that are part of their Bailiff Free Britain campaign. Each image is packed with members raising their fist and holding banners proudly.

The rest of the page reads: 
"ACORN, a community union for tenants, workers and families, is campaigning against predatory debt collectors in Wales.

They’ve been challenging bailiffs who terrorise communities, the local councils who hire them and the greedy utility companies causing the debt in the first place. 

And they need your help to do it! They need people who can join to take action with them, money to pay their costs and shares on social media so more people can hear about the campaign.

We urge all our supporters: read this thread on debt in the UK, then go follow ACORN Cardiff, hear about what they’ve been up to and sign up as an ACORN member yourself!"

@ACORNCARDIFF has been tagged in the image. Please join your local ACORN branch!"Debt Economy" is the title of this second page. The text underneath has data laid out in a bullet point format. It reads as such:

According to the most recent StepChange debt charity report:

Bullet point 1:  "Welsh workers are disproportionately indebted."
Adding, "People in Wales are seeking advice for debt at a higher rate than in any other UK nation."

Bullet Point 2: "People are living on slim margins."
Adding, "The average monthly surplus of someone seeking debt advice is just £89. The average unsecured debt and arrears total of a StepChange client is £19,701. Amongst people in debt 28% are actively in the red."

 
Bullet Point 3: "Debt is an issue that especially affects women."
Adding, "60% of people seeking debt advice are women. 26% are single parents. Debt can trap people with abusers."

Bullet Point 4: "Debt is narrowing but deepening"
Adding, "The number of new people seeking debt advice has been slowly falling since 2023, but  the average arrears amount has been rising (11% between 2024 and 2025)."

Bullet Point 5: "Most people in debt are in work"
Adding, "60% of people in debt are employed. 15% cite redundancy or unemployment as causing their debt."Our final slide is titled "A RIGGED SYSTEM". Three paragraphs sit neatly underneath. They read: 

"As workers we’re forced to spend our days labouring to make profit for faceless corporations and petty bosses. Then when we finally get home what awaits us? Bills from the landlord, utility company, tax office and bank, each also wanting to take their “fair share” from our earnings.

And what happens when we can’t afford to keep carrying all these rich men on our backs? Bailiffs arrive, thugs armed with court orders for eviction and seizure.

The capitalist economy is increasingly structured around monopoly, fraud, gambling, bribery, insider trading and mountains upon mountains of debt. Its property-owning ruling class are squeezing every drop of blood & sweat they can from us.

Make no mistake, the class struggle is here and it is not going away. Our only choice is whether we struggle together and win, or struggle alone and lose."
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 27/07/2026
Marxist Monday: Alexandra Kollontai, Bolshevik Revolutionary 1872-1952 "I stood with my whole heart and soul in the struggle for the abolition of the slavery of working women"
Black and white photo of Alexandra Kollontai, a woman with a frowning expression and a tight bun hairstyle wearing a puffy-sleeved dress. To the left of her photo is a Hammer & Sickle logo, and to the right is the Hammer & Pick logo of the Welsh Underground Network.

Text reads: "I stood with my whole heart and soul in the struggle for the abolition of the slavery of working women"

Below this text reads: "Autobiography of a Sexually-Emancipated Communist Woman - 1926"

Below photo text reads: "Alexandra Kollontai, Bolshevik Revolutionary, 1872-1952"
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 27/07/2026
On Saturday our local members joined @wrexham4palestine @intersectionaluprising & @wrechamantifascists in the progressive bloc at Wrecsam’s 3rd annual pride
Wrexham4Palestine members, taking part in the pride march, holding a Palestine flag, upon which are the words "Wrecsam dros Balestina", as well as a raised fist beside.
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 26/07/2026
Welsh Underground Network's statement on the ongoing wildfires.
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 26/07/2026
WUN members have been hard at work at the Cefn Fforest Miners Institute this weekend. We're committed to making this new community centre a real success, not just as a social hub but as a place for workers to organise.
Volunteers posing with tools in a back alley they cleared of rocks.Volunteers posing with WUN and PGC flags.
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 25/07/2026
At the top of the page, the header reads "Cuba Solidarity Campaign Rhondda Cynon Taff" A large title "LET CUBA LIVE! Urgent fundraiser and appeal" in Cuban flag blue with a sunny yellow background.

Underneath that is a subheading with three bulletpointed points underneath that read "An afternoon of action for Cuba with:

-a guest speaker from Cuban embassy
-csc Cuba vive medical appeal update
-Quiz and raffle with Cuban prizes"

The date listed on the poster is the 25th of July at 2-5pm. The event takes place at Clwb y Bont in Pontypridd. The ticket prices are listed as £5, and a piece of stationary is included in the price. 

At the footing of the page, are bank details for donating to CSC RCT. The details are:

Sort code: 30-99-50
Account Number: 47892962
Account name: CSC RCT

Please come or donate if you can!
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Plaid Gomiwnyddol Cymru / The Communist Party of Wales @communists.cymru · 23/07/2026
A Red Star. communists.wales welshundergroundnetwork.cymru
On the left side, a poem reads: 

"Lenin walks around the world. 
The sun sets like a scar. 
Between the darkness and the dawn, 
There rises a red star". 

On the right there is an illustration of Lenin.
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Y Seren Goch @yserengoch.cymru · 16/07/2026
Ein erthygl newydd ni 👀 Pwy sy’n Andy Burnham?! And what do socialists in Wales need to know about him?
YSG branded social media tile
Headline: Who is Andy Burnham?
Thumbnail: a photo of Andy Burnham, a white Middle Ages man wearing glasses
Description: Everything socialists in Wales need to know about the incoming Prime Minister, marxist analysis from the Welsh Underground Network
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 20/07/2026
Marxist Monday: Paul Robeson, Communist Organiser 1896-1976 "My father was a slave, and my people died to build this country, and I am going to stay here and no fascist will drive me from it"
[Alt Text:] Black and white photo of Paul Robeson, a smiling, short-haired man in a light suit. To the left of his photo is an American Communist logo, and to the right is the Hammer & Pick logo of the Welsh Underground Network.

Text reads: "My father was a slave, and my people died to build this country, and I am going to stay here and no fascist will drive me from it"

Below this text reads: "Testimony before the House Committee on Un-American Activities - 1956"

Below photo text reads: "Paul Robeson, Communist Organiser, 1896-1976"
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 19/07/2026
FIFA is ruining the people’s game ⚽️
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 15/07/2026
Patagonia - Y Wladfa #argentina  #patagonia #ywladfa
Y Wladfa
PATAGONIA

With Argentina set to play England tonight in the World Cup, we have seen people trying to highlight the links between Cymru and Argentina that entirely whitewash the history. This is a theme not only in sports but also deeply pervasive in our education and our national movement.LIBERAL LIES

There is an idea amongst a large part of the Welsh public that Patagonia is the place where Welsh people lived in harmony with native communities, having fled persecution at home and been invited to Patagonia to settle. This is a falsehood.

Liberal media paints a portrait of camaraderie between the Welsh settlers and the native Tehuelche population. We are told that Y Wladfa, despite meaning the colony, was not a colonial project, but rather a settlement. A settlement on an “empty” land of desert, in the middle of Patagonia, acquired not by force but legally. This narrative completely undermines the influence this settlement had on the genocide of the Tehuelche people and that the Welsh settlers were merely innocent bystanders.A Troubled Past

The act of settling isn’t neutral. Welsh liberal media justifies the settlement of the land by arguing that the land was uninhabited. The land was uninhabited in the same manor that some Palestinian land was uninhabited until Zionists settled. 

The influence of a foreign language, religion and culture acts as an oppressive force. When the Argentine and Chilean colonial government began the conquest of the desert i.e the genocide and enslavement of the native Patagonians, Welsh settlers responded with a ‘strongly written letter’, with only very few individuals coming to the aid of the native Tehuelche people. 

Y Wladfa was the first successful European settlement in Patagonia, acting as a template and justification for further Argentine atrocities. The material interests of the Welsh settlers were fundamentally to pacify the genocide of the natives. Y Wladfa is championed as a story of Welsh tenacity and victory in the face of English oppression. Whilst completely ignoring the involvement in settling on a land, which played a part in the erasure of the language and culture of another people.Attempted Revisionism

T Michael D Jones, the founder of Y Wladfa, a man of great authority, in the modern lens, he may be considered a member of the crachach. He had previous experience in advancing settler colonial movements with his time working as a congregationalist minister in Ohio. In his search for a potential “little Wales beyond Wales”, he was aware of the native population of Patagonia and had described them as “anwariaid” - savages. 

It is therefore clear that the settlers on board the Mimosa on their way to the Chubut valley had no intention of integrating with the broader native Patagonian population. Eisteddfodau have been a regular event in Y wladfa since 1865, and almost every year in the Eisteddfod genedlaethol, a Patagonian tent is propped up. 

Rugby games between Cymru and Argentina display flags of Y Wladychfa Gymreig, and S4C broadcasts documentaries, revising the history of what took place. 

It’s long past time we acknowledge and condemn the settlement that took place. We must not allow our troubled history taint our future.
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 13/07/2026
Marxist Monday: Elaine Brown, Black Panther 1945- "The example we lay down in Oakland will be the spark that lights the prairie fire."
Black and white photo of Elaine Brown, a black-clad woman with an afro speaking into a microphone. To the left of her photo is a Black Panther logo, and to the right is the Hammer & Pick logo of the Welsh Underground Network.

Text reads: "Together we're going to take this city. We will make it a base of revolution... The example we lay down in Oakland will be the spark that lights the prairie fire. We will carry our torch to another city... the people will take their lead from us."

Below this text reads: "1972 Statement, quoted in A Taste of Power - 1992"

Below photo text reads: "Marxist Monday: Elaine Brown, Black Panther, 1945-"
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 12/07/2026
Our members were out doing community rebuilding work in the valleys this weekend: clearing away rubble, handing out free water and talking to locals.
Two Welsh Underground Network members are in a small lot filled with gray rubble, with dry grass underneath it. The sun is blistering and the sky is very clear of clouds. There is a wheelbarrow next to one member, and a sledgehammer next to the other member. There is also reconstruction of the surrounding fence taking place on the edge of the photograph. The members in the photo are in the middle of clearing all of the rubble, leaving the ground ready to be weeded.
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 03/07/2026
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 28/06/2026
REMEMBER OUR PATRIOT DEAD Yesterday, members of the Welsh Underground Network and @PGCCymru travelled to Abergele to commemorate the lives of George Taylor and Alwyn Jones, two men who sadly lost their lives defending the rights of the Welsh nation to dignity and respect.... (1/3)
A wreath made up of red roses laid at the grave of George Taylor, one of the Abergele Martyrs. The grave says "Gwell angau na chywilydd" ("Better death than shame") on top and on the bottom "Dulce et decorum et pro patria mori" ("It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country"). Members stand around the grave of George Taylor listening to a speech being read out loud.Members stood in front of the Capel Celyn reservoir, holding the flags of the Welsh Underground Network and Plaid Gomiwnyddol Cymru in the centre. In front of them are several bin bags from a litter pick.
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 24/06/2026
Just under two years ago, Keir Starmer began writing his legacy as Prime Minister. All he's managed to conjure up in that time is a continuation of austerity, pathetic pandering to bigotry, and projecting his allegiance to the richest, and most powerful forces in the world.
At the top of the page in big, bold text reads “THE MOST HATED MAN IN BRITAIN”. There is a photograph of Keir Starmer at his resignation speech outside of Number 10 Downing Street underneath the title. He is looking just off-centre of the camera’s lens, talking to the press and the media.

The rest of the page contains two paragraphs of text, printing:
“Keir Starmer’s First instinct at every moment of his time as Prime Minister has been to attack the vulnerable, to pander to the “concerns” of bigots and to clamp down on dissent.

At every opportunity he has sided with the rich & powerful: with American imperialism, with Israeli genocide, with newspaper tycoons and race rioters.”

The page has been stylised by using a red border, with a white background for the text.This page is titled “A FOUL LEGACY” in large, bold text. Underneath the title is a large, landscape photograph of Keir Starmer at the same resignation speech outside of 10 Downing Street. He is walking away from two microphones that are placed on the far right of the photograph, with a defeated expression. Under the photograph, are three paragraphs of text, that read:

“Keir Starmer has revealed the true nature of the Labour Party: corrupt, petty, bigoted, patronising and elitist, hiding their contempt for the working class behind meagre regorms.

His time as Prime Minister will be remembered for race riots, for the Mandelson scandal, for the Palestine Action ban, for anti-trans guidance, for his contempt for devolution and for his brute force attempts to push sick and disabled people into work.

He has been a tool for the ruling class and our only regret in seeing him go is that another Labour Prime Minister will replace him.”

Underneath the text are four social media banners, and the URL for the Welsh Underground Network’s website: “Welshundergroundnetwork.com, @WELSHUGN on Facebook, @WELSHUGN on Twitter, @WELSHUNDERGROUNDNETWORK on Instagram, and @Welshundergroundnetwork.cymru on Bluesky!”
The page has been stylised by using a red border, with a white background for the text.
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 22/06/2026
Join us at 1:30 pm outside the Abergele martyrs plaque at LL22 7BP!
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 22/06/2026
Marxist Monday: Friedrich Engels, Communist Theorist 1820-1895 "The emancipation of the working class must be the work of the working class itself."
[Alt Text:] Black and white photo of Friedrich Engels, a man with an impressive mustache and beard wearing an elegant suit. To the left of his photo is a red flag, and to the right is the Hammer & Pick logo of the Welsh Underground Network.

Text reads: "The emancipation of the working class must be the work of the working class itself"

Below this text reads: "Strategy and Tactics of the Class Struggle - 1879"

Below photo text reads: "Marxist Monday: Friedrich Engels, Communist Theorist, 1820-1895"
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 21/06/2026
Our members were back doing maintenance work at the Cefn Fforest Miners Institute this weekend. This once derelict building is now a thriving community centre, but our work to improve it continues.
Photo of WUN members holding WUN and PGC flags outside the stute.
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 15/06/2026
MARXIST MONDAY: Nadezhda Krupskaya, Bolshevik Revolutionary 1869-1939 "For Lenin the masses are never a means but a decisive factor. If the party is to lead millions it must be in close contact with these millions."
Black and white photo of Nadezhda Krupskaya, a Russian woman with dark hair and a serious expression. To the left of her photo is a Hammer and Sickle, and to the right is the Hammer & Pick logo of the Welsh Underground Network.

Text reads: "For Lenin the masses are never a means but a decisive factor.

If the party is to lead millions it must be in close contact with these millions, it must be able to comprehend the life, the sorrows, and aspirations of the masses."

Below this text reads: "Reply to Trotsky's The Lessons of October - 1925"

Below photo text reads: "Marxist Monday: Nadezhda Krupskaya, Bolshevik Revolutionary, 1869-1939"
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 14/06/2026
Yesterday, WUN Members volunteered at Big Queer Picnic, a celebratory event for the LGBTQ+ community. We collected rubbish and helped set up the stage area. We've been helping at BQP for years now, and in that time it has ballooned in size. This was their biggest year ever. Happy Pride everyone!
Title reads: BQP REPORT

Below is a photo of WUN members holding a banner

Below, text reads:

Yesterday, Welsh Underground Network Members volunteered at Big Queer Picnic, a celebratory event for the LGBTQ+ community.

We collected rubbish, handed out bottled water and helped set up the stage area.

We've been helping at BQP for years now, and in that time it has doubled or tripled in size. This was their biggest year ever. Happy Pride everyone!
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 10/06/2026
Check out the website here: yserengoch.cymru @yserengoch.cymru
Y Seren Goch symbol, with text before the red star.

Below, text reads:

Welsh Socialist Republican News. 

Keeping you informed on the class struggle: in Wales and across the world.
Small Y Seren Goch symbol

Below, slogan reads:

“Dros weriniaeth sosialaidd i Gymru” (For a Welsh socialist republic)

Below, large title reads: 

WHO ARE WE?

Below, text reads:

Y Seren Goch provides reports and Marxist analysis on Welsh, British and International politics.

Too many important discussions on the Welsh Left are confined to closed groupchats and poorly-attended meetings. We want to drag the conversation out into the light of day where everyone can access it.

Anyone can submit articles to us in any language spoken in Wales and covering any topic, be it current events, socialist theory, history, language or culture.

Follow us on social media or subscribe on our website to stay up-to-date on the latest in Socialist-Republican news and opinion!
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 08/06/2026
On this day in 1913, Suffragette and socialist Emily Davison died of injuries she sustained while protesting for women's right to vote. MARXIST MONDAY!
[Alt text 1] "Remembering a Suffragette Martyr: Emily Davison.

On this day in 1913, Emily Davison died of injuries she sustained while protesting for women’s right to vote. Davison was a militant member of the Women’s Social and Political Union, and she was also a socialist.

As an active suffragette Davison was arrested nine times, and during her hunger strikes she was regularly force-fed.  She disrupted liberal rallies, threw stones at liberal politicians and set fire to post-boxes. She is also believed to have been responsible for a bombing that destroyed Chancellor Lloyd George’s house.

Over 55,000 people attended Davison’s funeral, and she has become a martyr for the women’s movement."[Alt text 2] an angelic depiction of Emily Davison at a horse racing track, with a halo that says "love that overcometh"

underneath text reads "In honour and in loving, reverent memory - Emily Wilding Davison. she died for women. greater love hath no man than this: that he lay down his life for his friends"
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 04/06/2026
A couple of our members made their way into The Valleys to check up on and maintain our vegetable plants; snacking on the fresh pea pods as we de-weeded the soon to be flowering cabbages. Over the next few weeks, we expect to see carrots, onions, and tomatoes begin to show.
[Alt Text 1.] Inside of an opaque greenhouse are two Welsh Underground Members gardening. One is picking weeds out of the plant bed, while the other is watering plants with a large watering can. Outside the greenhouse, is a person strimming the grass with a large electric strummer. They are stood in a grassy garden on an overcast day. In the grassy garden, is a large metal dustbin filled with poles and wooden beams. At the front of the image, is a garden bed full of soil, grass, weeds, and leaves.[Alt Text 2.] The photo centres a vegetable bed filled with planted onions and peppers. They are still in an early stage of development, with only long green stems and delicate leaves sticking out of the ground. The soil is well watered, and has been de-weeded. The bed is made out of pale wooden planks, and is raised roughly two feet off the ground.[Alt Text 3.] Centred in this photo is a healthy, green, and flowering cabbage plant. There are a few weeds and leaves surrounding the plant, all of which are contained in the same vegetable bed as the cabbage. The soil is a dark brown, and well watered.[Alt Text 4.] Inside of a large vegetable bed, there are 5 thin, vertical wooden poles in sequence starting at the front of the photograph, that end near the back of the photograph. The poles near the back are not in the lenses' focal distance so they are blurry. Attached to the poles using a mix of thin string, and thicker rope are a number of pea plants! There is a bright, fresh pea pod that has grown on one of the plant's stem. The rest of the photograph contains 3 large, blue drums that collects rain water, as well as a small opaque greenhouse.
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 01/06/2026
MARXIST MONDAY! James Connolly, Irish Socialist Republican 1868-1916 “Unless you organise a Socialist Republic... England will still rule you through her capitalists, her landlords, her financiers”
Black and white photo of James Connolly, an Irish man in a three piece suit with a thick mustache. To the left of his photo is an Easter Lily, and to the right is the Hammer & Pick logo of the Welsh Underground Network.

Text reads: "If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you [organise a] Socialist Republic your efforts will be in vain.

England will still rule you... through her capitalists... her landlords... her financiers."

Below this text reads: "Socialism and Nationalism - 1897"

Below photo text reads: "Marxist Monday: James Connolly, Irish Socialist Republican, 1868-1916"
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 25/05/2026
Marxist Monday: Rosa Luxemburg, Spartacist Revolutionary 1871-1919 "Mass slaughter has become the tiresome and monotonous business of the day. Wading in blood, dripping in filth - there stands capitalist society: a ravening beast"
Black and white photo of Rosa Luxemburg, a softly smiling woman in a simple dress and jaunty hat. To the left of her photo is the hammer and sickle logo of the KPD, and to the right is the Hammer & Pick logo of the Welsh Underground Network.

Text reads: "Mass slaughter has become the tiresome and monotonous business of the day...

Wading in blood, dripping filth - there stands bourgeois society. This is it in reality... the ravening beast... Thus it reveals itself in its true, naked form."

Below this text reads: "The Junius Pamphlet - 1915"

Below photo text reads: "Marxist Monday: Rosa Luxemburg, Spartacist Revolutionary, 1871-1919"
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 22/05/2026
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A rise in transgender acceptance has triggered reactionary moral panics. UK hate groups, funded by various American Conservative Christian foundations and amplified by reactionary print media, have used anti-trans arguments as weapons to try and break apart progressive coalitions and roll back LGBTQ+ rights.

Labour are under immense pressure, both from anti-trans hate groups and from the trans community. Following their reactionary inclinations, they have chosen to “resolve” the matter by segregating trans people “with dignity and respect”.

This will prove to be no resolution at all. Let us show Labour the anger and defiance this “guidance” has awoken, and make them regret ever issuing it. Stand up for our trans comrades!
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 22/05/2026
We wholeheartedly condemn the new anti-trans guidance this government have produced, and send unequivocal solidarity to our trans comrades & neighbours. We call on everyone, trans and cis, to defy this attempt to segregate trans people out of public life. 1/2
The government have published their latest attack on the trans community. What is being proposed has been weakened by the efforts of many progressive groups, but is still fundamentally an attempt to segregate trans people out of public spaces.

  This is the product of an organised hate movement. It must be resisted. We call on everyone, trans and cis, to defy this guidance any way they can and to agitate against it.

As ever, we send unequivocal support and solidarity to our trans comrades & neighbours. The guidance refers to cis women and cis men as “biological women” and “biological men”. This degrades trans people by treating them as “fake women” and “fake men”, and wilfully ignores the biological changes many trans people undergo during transition.

It totally ignores intersex people, assuming that everyone is neatly born male or female and that that “birth sex”, is the most relevant factor in

It treats the presence of trans people in public spaces as potential discrimination against cis people, and argues that the removal of trans people from those spaces can be a reasonable step.

It allows venues to relegate trans people to gender neutral facilities only, treating them as a de-facto “third sex”, as second-class citizens.Dedicated trans organisations have already been posting detailed overviews of the guidance and its implications. We suggest reading those statements after this one.

Fantastic journalistic and mutual aid work is already being done in the trans community, and that is a strong foundation for the wider progressive movement to build upon when opposing this anti-trans guidance.

Cis people must pull their weight and follow the lead of their trans peers. When a vulnerable section of the working class comes under attack, it is the responsibility of the rest of the class to rally around and defend them.Capitalism has since its beginning relied on strict enforcement of gender roles and gendered labour.  As science and conditions have advanced, and new innovations have given queer communities new language and ideas to organise around, the capitalist gender order faces new challenges.

 To defend itself and adapt to this change, the capitalist system has tried to assimilate the more “acceptable” aspects of the LGBTQ+ movement, while continuing intense persecution of the less “marketable” and more “radical” aspects.

The result is a growing trans underclass, relegated to the sections of the sevice industries with the worst conditions, doing traditionally “feminine” labour. Trans women in particular are one of the worst paid and most under-employed demographics in the whole of Europe.
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 22/05/2026
In 1969 two men died in an explosion during the fight for Wales. Don’t let their memory fade into history. Come to the commemoration in Abergele on the 27th of June.
Title reads: 

Abergele Martyrs Commemoration 2026

Below, two black and white photographs of George Taylor and Alwyn Jones.

Below, large text reads:

27th of June

Below, text reads:

On this day we are commemorating the deaths of Alwyn Jones and George Taylor, who died in struggle against the British Empire. Feel free to come and show solidarity.

To either side is a WUN symbol and a PGC symbol
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