In Derry last Sunday, on the 1st of Feburary, members of Plaid Gomiwnyddol Cymru and the Welsh Underground Network attended the Bloody Sunday March for Justice in solidarity with our comrades in the Connolly Youth Movement. Thousands turned out to commemorate the brutal murder of 14 civil rights protestors in 1972 at the hands of British occupying forces, and to call for liberation in the present, from occupied Ireland to occupied Palestine. The soldiers responsible have never faced justice for their crimes, instead being sheltered by the British state on behalf of which the massacre was executed. The Party takes the Marxist-Leninist position and unshakingly supports resistance against imperialism by any means necessary.

Our banner reads “Mewn Undeb Mae Nerth” (In Unity There is Strength), a translation of the Irish socialist slogan which stands alongside it. To us, this means the strength of the working class united against the exploiters, the strength of occupied nations united against the imperialists, and the strength of the people united, who no matter what yearn to overthrow their oppressors. The banner represents the close link between Welsh and Irish Republicanism in our struggle against the reactionary British state. A struggle that we are duty bound to win, not only for national liberation and socialism but also to strike a blow at the heart of the imperialist system that strangles the globe.