the socialist-republican paper of wales
Y Seren Goch (The Red Star) is the Socialist-Republican paper set up by Plaid Gomiwnyddol Cymru & the Welsh Underground Network in 2024.
Y Seren Goch provides analysis of the dire state of Welsh and British politics, of the neoliberal decay present around us, and the fight for minoritised languages.
Anyone can write for us, you don’t need to be Marxist-Leninist, a Socialist-Republican, Y Seren Goch are committed to publishing a pluralistic view of Welsh politics. The aim is to take the debates out of the messenger apps, off social media, and into a public space
Y Seren Goch Podcast
‘It’s Not Unusual’
“Wales is impossible. A country called Wales only exists because the Welsh invented it. The Welsh only exist because they invent themselves” – Gwyn Alf Williams
They say it’s probably the best podcast on the air about ‘sir’ Tom Jones, but failing that it’s the best podcast on the true working-class history of Wales. We will tell you the bloody details, the riots, the revolutions, the bastards and the heroes of our history.
Listen below or wherever you listen to podcasts!
Paul Robeson – Part 2 – It's Not Unusual
Y Seren Goch articles
Latest Articles
Socialist Unity Conference in Merthyr Tydfil Votes To Form New Broad-Base Organisation
Report, Hedd Goch, Y Seren Goch Yesterday, socialists from across the left in Wales gathered to debate and vote on the progress made by the ‘Cymru Radical Left Dialogue’ – an open network of socialists who have been crafting progressive policies to campaign on for the 2026 Senedd Elections. This conference was called after an…
Dispatches From Occupied Ireland: A Cold Reminder Of Occupation
The evening I arrived, we walked through part of North West Belfast. Despite an understanding of the role of the British state in the six counties I was struck by the cold blatancy of the fact that the land I was standing on was under occupation.
Dispatches From Occupied Ireland: An Exercise In Forgetting
Dispatch 1. Gan Ciaran “The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. And just as they seem to be occupied with revolutionizing themselves and things, creating something that did not exist before, precisely in such epochs of revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the…
Dispatches From Occupied Ireland
Introduction Gan Owain Ab Owain At the end of January 2025, members of Plaid Gomiwnyddol Cymru travelled to Ireland to undertake political education and to represent the party at the Bloody Sunday March for Justice in Derry. While the primary aim of the trip was to show solidarity with our comrades in struggle in Ireland…
Cofiwch Winifred Carney – ‘The Typist With The Webley’
Our recent delegation to Ireland opened our eyes to many things […] One thing impressed upon me was how the women who fought in the Easter Rising were remembered, one in particular stayed with me – Winifred Carney, ‘the typist with the Webley’ as she is now known.
Reform (UK) or Revolution
‘The left’ is often told to swallow their principles and vote for a ‘lesser evil’. In fact, many on the left will campaign for whichever establishment party isn’t on the right.
Our Road to Socialism Runs Through Ireland
Gan Owain Ab Owain A few months ago Y Seren Goch published a piece titled ‘Who Fears to Speak of Ireland’ which laid out an argument to suggest that the broader British communist movement, with notable exception, had neglected the discussion of Ireland and were all-the-poorer for it. This piece received several thought-provoking responses from…
What I Saw
An account of an eviction by someone who was there trying to stop it, and a desperate call for people to join us in our struggle against landlords
Organising with love, ‘The Stute’ and the WUN
On developing and maintaining long term community action Gan Y Golygydd YSG The Cefn Fforest Miners’ Institute, or ‘The Stute’, was a hall built from the wages of the working class, by the hands of the working class, and owned by the working class – by the trade union. It was opened in 1932, as…
Cenedlaetholdeb Cymreig
Rhagfarn POL o genedlaetholdeb Cymreig – gan Remi o Welsh Underground Network Yn saesneg, yn wreiddiol yma: https://welshundergroundnetwork.com/2023/03/22/welsh-nationalism-cenedlaetholdeb-cymreig/ Beth ydy Cenedlaetholdeb Cymreig? Genedlaetholdeb ydy dweud yn alm ydy’r credu’na genedl yr un ydy gwycha na gilydd, a dod ymlaen y meddwl o’r cenedl ‘na i’r waetha o genedl gilydd. Hyn ydy wedi gweld yn y…
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