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
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