Part I:
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The Militants and Resistence to Investiture'69.
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The web is full of 'Bullish' or should that be 'Bullshite' Welsh Patriot Websites and 'Key Board Facebook Fusiliers', some of these I regard as MI5 'Stings' whilst others are possibly no more than 'Infantile and Immature Adventurists and Opportunists' as Cymru 1400 and Balchder Cymru, the former a website I would advise one and all to avoid whilst the latter poses in a number of guises, as once upon a time 'National Liberation Movement, to ''Political Concsiousness Group'', to of late and I guess continuing a ''Welsh Socialist Republican Movement'', specialising in 'Cymric - Celtic Bonding Campsites', they should be treated with mirth or derision.
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However, there are genuine patriots with a genuine interest and admiration for a passed into history ''Sixties Struggle'', at present being if not bueried then cast into the shadows. See as an example an illustrated booklet officially produced for higher schools; Terfysg a Phrotest' by Catrin Stevens, there are 20 section on the history of Revolt from Owain Glyndwr to Popular Risings to 'Rock & Roll' , Welsh Language Struggle and Greenham Common. However, whilst 'Tan yn Llyn' gets it's place in this largelly 'Bourgeoisie Cultural Nationalist' presentation, as does 'Cofiwch Dreweryn' but with out mention of patriots as Owain Williams and the 'Boys from Gwent'.
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See my criticisms of 'NASH NONSENCE'
in 'Welsh Remembrancer':
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Welsh Remembrancer.: COFIA'69: 'I-DAY' AFTER 40th Anniversary 2009 ...
2 Jul 2009 ... I am not needs be going to stop critcizing Adam & BC,
although hence I shall..... About Me. Gethin 'Iestyn' Gruffydd: Welsh
Remembrancer
welshremembrancer.blogspot.com/.../i-day-40th-
anniversary-day-after-sorry.html - Cached.
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I have recently offered up to such patriotic 'Fringe Fantasists'
opportunity
to engage in a real Radical Republicans Against
Monarchy RAM struggle over
coming five years, instead of
their playing of 'Patriot Games' It will be very
interesting to
see if they do engage in something real or go on faking it?
Time will tell! See link below:
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WELSH REPUBLICANS AGAINST MONARCHY
- 2 visits - 22 Jul18 Jul 2010 ... WELSH REPUBLICANS AGAINST MONARCHY. In
Assistance to politically the Challenged and Confused Retro and
Romantic 'Welsh Republican' debris in ...
ramrepublicansagainstmonarchy.blogspot.com/
- Cached
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PLEASE NOTE:
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WILL SERIOUS IRISH AND SCOTTISH REPUBLICAN
ORGANISATIONS NO
TE THAT IT REALLY IS IN BEST
INTEREST AND
SERVICE TO BOTH OUR COUNTRIES
TO STOP GIVING
RETRO RUBBISH ROMANTIC REPUBLICANISM
ANY CREDIBILITY
- UNLESS THEY
DELIVER!
AS OTHERWISE YOU ARE NOT DOING
YOURSELVES
ANY FAVOURS
AND CERTAINLY YOU ARE NOT
BEING OF
ANY HELP
TO THE ATTEMPTS OF
COMMITTED WELSH PATRIOTS
OF
TRUE
REPUBLICAN
MIND
AND PURPOSE TO DEVELOPE AND
ESTABLISH A REAL RADICAL WELSH
REPUBLICAN MOVEMENT AND STRUGGLE .
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Much of above interest is inspired by the books as 'To Dream of Freedom' and the recently published book 'Freedom Fighters' Wales's Forgotten War. Telling the story of a major serious 'Welsh Revolt' during the 'Sixties', it is largelly the story of the Free Wales Army and Mudiad Amdiffyn Cymru:
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Free Wales Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- 2 visits - 11/11/2008.
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All this is above is about an increasingly distant
'Sixties Struggle', many of the Websites, Facebook
and Youtube presentations indulge in a 'fantasy
fringe patriotism' whilst others express a
genuine admiration for the sacrifices made by
patriots engaged in the Adfywiad Gwladgarol
1962 - 1969. For your further interest and
information, see link below:
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Alternative Welsh Nationalist Archive: The Patriotic Front and the ...
29 Apr 2007 ... Alternative Welsh Nationalist Archive. An Archive of material record informing on Alternative Welsh Nationalism, Movement and Struggle 1946 - 2006. .... and Welsh History of 1848 dwells on the ''Blue Books'' but Wales of ...
awnms.blogspot.com/.../patriotic-front-and-free-wales-army.html - Cached - Similar
awnms.blogspot.com/.../patriotic-front-and-free-wales-army.html - Cached - Similar
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YouTube - The tale of the Free Wales Army
While the film has him in the hospital "malingering, under arrest", ... queue MAC WELSH FREEDOM FIGHTER,FREE WALES ARMY,CYMRU,706 viewsbzhattack · 1:00 ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZieJZdxH4UA - Cached - Similar3 Mar 2008 ... commemorative film about the assassination of Llywelyn ap ...www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ2ve6z8U1kMore results from youtube.com » Bash The Rich Film
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Such looks back to the days when an handfull
of patriots did actually carry out an
'Adfywiad Gwladgarol', that is a
Militant Patriotic Resurgence
against English Rule.
Also see below:
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Bash The Rich Film
... Ian Bone Bash The Rich Film Greg Hall Free Wales Army John Jenkins Capel Celyn ...appeared on Youtube of the Free Wales Army which has really helped my ...
bashtherichfilm.wordpress.com/ - Cached - Similar
bashtherichfilm.wordpress.com/ - Cached - Similar
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Part II:
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The Moderates and Struggle for Welsh Laguage Rights.
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This struggle however took two forms, on the one hand
there was a 'Student Revolt' for Language rights
that actually was ahead of later similar
'Language Issues' in Quebec and Belguim.
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McGill University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to Language Policy: Today, McGill is one of only three English-languageuniversities in Quebec; fluency in French is not a requirement to attend. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGill_University - Cached - Similar
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGill_University - Cached - Similar
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Quebec sovereignty movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- 4 visits - 7 May.
MaYoMo – 1968 in Europe- Belgium - Chronology
17 Oct 2008 ... 1968 January, 1968 The Flemish students of Leuven are supported by ...17.06.1968 After 232 days of governmental crisis, Gaston Eyskens, ... 24.10.1968 TheFlemish student movement in Leuven holds a demonstration with ...
mayomo.com/22228 - Cached
mayomo.com/22228 - Cached
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The Welsh Language 'Student Revolt' in Wales
had began earlier in Wales fueled by a number
of reasons, historical and otherwise.
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Much of the motivation whilst no doubt being altruistic and
prompted by genuine reasons of discontent. There was
however much that were percieved wrongs of an historical
nature, some real and others a rather narrow 'Cultural
Nationalism' rooted back to a perhaps much 'immagined
medieval Cymru' and not least rooted in the rise of
18th century 'Cultural Nationalist Romanticism' overlayed
by a much more dominating mass popular 'Religious Revival
Wales'. Some of this perception was of a 'Gogcentric' as much
as 'Saiscentric' interpretation of Welsh History that focuses a
lot on such as the 1848 'Blue Books':
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You might want to compare & contrast this period of Welsh
History with that of Europe history of 1848 which tells of the
Revolutionary Nationalist 'Spring of Nations':
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However, Welsh History had already made it's great
historical turning point with the Merthyr 'popular'
Insurrection of 1831:
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RED REMEMBRANCER: FOTO FEATURE: TONYPANDY RIOTS 1910 - 2010 ...
- 2 visits - 16 Jun15 Sep 2009 ... RED REMEMBRANCER. A Welsh Radical PLatform: containing information on history of .... COFIWCH 1831: MERTHYR RED WEEK 2010: PLEASE REMEMB. ...
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Followed in the South by major 'working class'
disturbences, not least in the 'war' of the
TARW SCOTCH' aka 'Scotch Cattle', a
none too secret 'underground'
Workers 'revolutionary'
movement:
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Scotch Cattle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- 2 visits - 1 May.
However, the greatest of turning points that was to
devide Wales up to present times was the
Newport Chartist Insurrection of 1839:
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Chartist Newport
- 2 visits - 14 Jul.
As one Welsh Historian as stated, after the troops opened fire
betime the gun smoke had cleared, the rising victorian Welsh
middle class had decided on which side their bread was to be
hence fourth buttered! Post 1850, increasingly as a Welsh
'Capitalist Class' and in service of the 'British Empire' too!
This very much along with continued 'Religious Revival'
detirmined the way Welsh Culture would be shaped
and sustain itself, untill the Edwardian Age from turn
of the 19th century up to the signifigant period of
1905 - 1911 - 1914 conspired for 'All Change'
and not for the better as far as the Welsh
'Cultural Nation' was concerned or,
indeed the 'Welsh Working Class'
either!
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To be continued:
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H&H!
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Gethin Gruffydd.
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