OVER the Easter weekend CND will be conaucuing a series or ac tivities against nuciear weapons. partial list of the major activities. Further of all these acdetals tivities can be obtained Trom END, it goodwin St, London N4 3HQ. Tel: 01-263 4854/8546.
ALDERMASTON: Sat 18 April, southern region CND •emonsualion outside nuclear research centre.
BRISTOL: Sat 18 April Bristol and south west region CND demonstration to Admiralty For details ring Bristol 32707.
CAMBRIDGE: Mon 20 Trailin ion from RAF tration 11am from Honnington Thetford. Details ring Cambridge 353804 FARNBOROUGH TO ALDERSHOT: 18 April CND demonstration and rally. Assemble 9.15 Love Green Farn. borough.
LONDON: local marches to civil defence bunkers at Cheam, Crystal Palace, Wanstead, Dollis Hill and USAF Uxbridge. MANCHESTER: Mass demonstration to greet trans-Pennine march. MIDLANDS: Five prong march on Rugby from Birmingham/Wolverhampton, Derby, Milton Keynes, Leamington. Culminate Mon 20 April with march on Rugby. Details Martin Tolman 021-236 9815.
NOTTINGHAM: Sat 18 April. 11am march through Tel Nottingham 582561. Socialist Challenge 16 April 1981 and policies.
respond when the Welsh working class is advancing to confront the Tories?
Plaid has held a commission of inquiry to try and regain the power and perspective it has lost since the general election, and a special party conference 1s to be held this summer.
While the party dominated by middle-class intellectuals and protestwo-thirds of sonals. votes come from the working class, mainly skiled workers.
Many of the Welshwho Socally support Plaid identify the Party the Labour hostility displayed Welsh language by MPs like Neil Kinnock and Leo Abse. Labour Under the last Labour government, Plaid had three Mrs and among the successes of its lobbying was Darlanculary suDDOrl for the Development Agency and relief for silicosis victims. The minority government and the possibility of a Welsh assembly gave the party considerable leverage.
But the devolution referendum was Osu and Plaid's two MPs elected in 1979 are powerless in Tory-dominated parliament. The party is subdued and demoralised, and even securing the Fourth TV channel for the language has not revilansea Il.
The commission of inCURV and minority reports, and two groupings have emerged from initial discussions on the proposals. here Is the possibility of a split in the future. report, The majority supported Datiyd Wigley MP and the majority the 'rightists' in Plaid outlines two main ways of How does a party based on nationalism reactivating the party.
First, through campaigns on such issues as muciear weapons anu aunti ping, against government in support or the language, and for Welsh self-government.
Illegal The report suggests that these may require the party to oreak wun Colstitutionalism, by commitSecondly the report calls Plaid be 'decentralist socialist' party, seeking new alliances to gain concessions for Wales The 'decentralist' plan - as against centralism -opens the way for an alliance Democratic Party and the Scottish Nationalist Party, which would seriously chances returning Labour Career The majority report dreams of a re-run of the past 20 years, this time without return to the well-springs of Plaid. But the party has too many MPs and councillors to begin anew, and there is now a career structure for ambitious Welsh speakers within the state. Anti-constitutional tactics are put forward very tentatively.
The minority report proposes more thorough-going challenge to Labour as the party of the Welsh working class. It aims challenge the Lions: Party barior ises prioritises district and county elections; and proposes the setting up of youth organisation.
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PROPORTION OF WELSH SPFAKERS POPULATION OF WALES WELSH SPEAKING 80€ 6040 г 20.The idea is to take over the state in Wales. so tar as this is possible by constitutional means.
Daffyd Ellis Thomas MP supports this strategy, than she minority much further report.
He calls for an all-Wales general strike against steel and pit closures, and for _ PERCENTAGES FROM CENSUS FIGURES strikes against cuts. He wants MPs to be recognis. ed simply as representatives organised power of the working class.
While the minority report insists that its aim is 'independence' for Wales its nationalism is muted. It stresses the Anglo-Welsh WEST GLAMORGAN 11%. POP. 366,600 SOUTH GLAMORGAN •POP. 390,600 tradition in place of the purely Welsh. Much of the report reads Hike the Labour left in Wales and that is the weakness.
It seeks to promote Plaid at the expense of Labour, out is quite un sure of how to achieve this.
Plaid Cymru has moved to the left. In the mabrity plant to modernise report this is shown nationalist traditions wille the minonity repor tailors nationalism to the Labour Party's base. It is a testament to the bruised bul undefeated spirit of the Welsh workers' move ment.
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