WHEN NATIONALISTS WERE DEFIANT NOT WOKE WIMPS
A Historical Archive of material regards the National Consciousness raising movement COFIWN from 1972 - 1986. This Blog Platform also Continues Cymric Consciousness Campaigning in theory and reports of related events and activities in present times also looking to the future of this Patriotic Struggle in Wales.
11 July 2024
26 June 2024
A REPLY TO CRACHACH HISTORIANS WITH FALSE MEMORY AS NOTED IN PREIVIOUS POST DISTORTIONS - LET I REMIND OF SOME HOME TRUTHS THE CRACHACH RATHER NOT BE KNOWN AS IT WOULD INTERFERE WITH CONTINUED ENGLAND'S RULE OF OUR COUNTRY WITH AID FROM CRACHACH QUISLINGS
I WILL BE BRIEF, YOU CAN FOLLOW UP YOURSELVES FOR STARTERS BY READING MY BLOGS AND NOT LEAST THE BOOK:
TO DREAM OF FREEDOM.
TO BEGIN.
FROM THE DAYS OF GWYNFOR IFANS TO THE PRESENT DAYS OF RHUN AB IORWERTH AND PLAID CYMRU'S DECLINE BROUGHT ABOUT BY IGNORENCE OF OUR HISTORY AND NOT LEAST, THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'S RADICAL POLITICAL HISTORY THAT BEGAN IN 1953 WHEN WELSH REPUBLICANS BOMBED THE ELAN VALLEY PIPELINE TO COINCIDE WITH LIZ II'S CORONATION, AN ACT AND EXPRESSION OF DEFIANCE FOR WHICH PEDR LEWIS WAS CONVICTED AND JAILED FOR. THAT ACTION IGNITED THE FLAME AND WELSH REPUBLICANS REMAINED ACTIVE FOR MUCH OF THE 1960'S AND UP TO 1969. THEIR CENTRAL ROLE WAS TAKEN OVER BY THE PATRIOTIC FRONT, FREE WALES ARMY AND MUDIAD AMDIFFYN CYMRU BOMBING CAMPAIGNS.
DESPITE THE GLORIFICATON OF CYMDEITHAS YR IAITH AND YR URDD BY CRACHACH ESTABLISHMENT IN PURSUEMENT OF THEIR OWN VESTED INTEREST - LEADING TO THE ESTABLISHING OF THE S4C GRAVY TRAIN , IT WAS THE MILITANT LEADERSHIP OF MAC, THE PATRIOTIC FRONT AND THE FWA AGAINST THE 1969 INVESTITURE THAT INSPIRED AND GAVE THE MUCH NEEDED BOOST TO THE CYMRIC CAUSE FOR FREEDOM. IT WAS THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE OF THESE MOVEMENTS THAT CONCERNED THE GOVERNMENT IN WHITEHALL AND WHICH, ULTIMATELY, LED TO NINE PF AND FWA MEMBERS BEING ARRESTED AND SENTENCED TO TERMS OF IMPRISONMENT AT 3PM ON JULY 1, 1969 ON EXACTLY THE SAME TIME AND DATE OF THE INVESTITURE, AND IT WAS TWO MEMBERS OF MAC THAT MADE THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE WHEN THEY LOST THEIR LIVES WHILST LAYING A BOMB, WHICH WAS INTENDED TO BLOW THE RAILWAY LINE UP TO STOP THE ROYAL TRAIN TRAVELLING ON TO CAERNARFON AND IT WAS JOHN JENKINS, THE LEADER OF MAC THAT WAS IMPRISONED FOR 10YRS IN ENGLISH PRISONS.
THE SEVENTIES SAW THE ADVANCE OF A MEIBION GLYNDWR 'ARSON WAR' BUT, JUST AS DYNAMICALLY, COFIWN WAGED A STRUGGLE TO ADVANCE KNOWLEDGE OF OUR HISTORY, A CHALLENGE NOT TAKEN UP BY THE NATIONALIST ESTABLISHMENT WHO WERE MORE CONCERNED WITH PERSONAL SELF ADVANCEMENT.
OTHER THAN THE ABOVE, WE MUST REMEMBER THE STRUGGLES OF OTHER NATIONALIST GROUPS AS ADFER, CYMRU GOGH I AND II, WAWR AND THE CYFAMODWYR AND, OF COURSE, LLYSGENHADAETH GLYNDWR WHO HAS WORKED TIRELESSLY RIGHT UP TO THE PRESENT DAY TO FREE OWAIN GLYNDWR FROM HIS PRISON UNDER THE CARPET OF HISTORY WHERE THE 'POWERS THAT BE' HAVE DONE THEIR UTMOST TO KEEP HIM.
BE MINDFUL, AS A MUST, THERE'S AN URGENT NEED NOW, MORE THAN EVER, TO REVIVE THE WORK OF COFWN I TO ENSURE THAT OUR PEOPLE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN ABOUT AND ARE CONNECTED TO ALL OF OUR HISTORY - WARTS AND ALL. WE MUST NOT LET THE 'POWERS THAT BE', WHETHER THEY BE IN WESTMINSTER, BAE CAERDYDD OR NEATH PORT TALBOT GET AWAY WITH AIR BRUSHING OUR MILITANT HISTORY OUT OF EXISTANCE IN THEIR ENDEAVOURS TO CREATE A NEW STERILISED VERSION OF CYMRIC HISTORY TO SUIT THEIR OWN ENDS.
THERE ARE PLENTY OF REASONS WHY THERE IS A NEED 'TO GET MILITANT' IN CYMRU THESE DAYS BUT, IT WILL BE A LONG TIME BEFORE OR IF EVER THAT HAPPENS BUT, WE CAN AT THE LEAST CONTINUE TO SHOW RESISTANCE TO THE PREVAILING ENGLISH RULE BY GETTING MORE PRO ACTIVE WITH THE 'ERW WEN' STICKER AND SLOGAN PAINTING CAMPAIGNS.
COFIWCH
BY ANY MEANS NESSESSERY
BAMN CYMRU
20 June 2024
THIS IS HOW HISTORY IS DISTORTED and DEVALUED TO SUIT THE CRACHACH. CLICK INTO THE LINKS IN THIS BLOG WHICH WILL REVEAL WHAT THEY ARE UP TO WITH THESE TWO COURSES (PART 1 AND PART 2) ON HISTORY OF PROTEST IN 20th CENTURY WALES
BEFORE I COMMENT ON BELOW, WILL LET OTHERS READ BELOW IN AN INVESTIGATTIVE WAY TO SUSS OUT WHAT IS GOING ON AND IF YOU DO NOT GRASP TRUTHFUL REALITY THEN DON'T COUNT YOURSELF A TRUE NATIONALIST BUT JUST A HANG ON FOLLOWER OF CRACHACH CULTURAL FASHION. GOD HELP WALES BUT 'CRACHACH CYMRU' WILL SURVIVE AT LEAST WITHIN A 'CRACHACH ESTABLISHMENT' OF S4C, TINOPOLIS AND SO ON! NOT LEAST YR URDD EISTEDDFOD ANDTHE EISTEDDFOD.
SEE DETAILS ON PART 1 IN LINK BELOW:
The History of Protest in Wales in the Twentieth Century | Adult Learning Wales
THIS IS WHAT THE TUTOR, CATHERINE DAVIES HAVE TO SAY IN REGARDS TO PART 1.
"Can you first of all make sure learners
knows the course is entirely through the medium of Welsh please to avoid
misunderstandings I've experienced in the past".
Here the topics for Rhan 1/Part 1:eryn, 'Merched Peryglus' (Cymdeithas yr Iaith), S4C
Penrhyn quarrymen strike, Suffragettes, the Beasley's, Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg, Tryw
SEE DETAILS ON PART 2 IN LINK BELOW
The History of Protest in Wales in the Twentieth Century Part 2 | Adult Learning Wales
I HAD TO 'BE 'PERSISTANT' TO GET THE DETAILS FOR PART 2 OF THE COURSE AND THIS IS WHAT THE TUTOR CATHERINE DAVIES HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THAT:
"Thanks very much for showing an interest in our Hanes Protest course.
I'm sorry that
information has not been available on our system on Part 2 but it's available
now and the registration link with details is above. This has happened because
Part 2 will be in the new academic year.
The course will be
suitable for Welsh speakers and advanced level learners only. I will provide
resources on the screen (media clips, articles and so on) or on paper in Welsh
and there will be an opportunity to discuss topics which come up. There'll be a
chance too to explain linguistic points when they arise if there is a need.
Unfortunatley Part 1 is
full but there is a waiting list, if you are interested. Also, there'll be a
chance to do an English version in September in the DOVE centre in
Banwen".