About

Loss of heart and burnout ends many people's contact with radicalism in Wales, as elsewhere. Many of those who don't completely turn their back on politics end up compromising and accepting mainstream 'realities'. This is partly because our respective movements suffer from visibility and image problems: the limited coverage given to protests and campaigns by the mainstream media fails to address the core reasons for discontent, and much of what's left of the radical media suffers from an inward looking culture that only preaches to the choir.

Radical Wales exists as an independent platform for considered radical political analysis, commentary and discussion in Wales. We hope to attract a wide range of submissions from across the spectrum of anarchists, communists, greens, left-republicans and socialists.

Inspired by the long line of rebels and revolutionaries who have stood outside and against the political process of the ruling class in Wales, we'll publish original articles that continue that tradition. Are you interested in writing an article or becoming a regular contributor? Then read our style guide and submit an article.

By including contributors from different radical traditions there will doubtless be countless political and tactical disagreements. Many (probably most) of these will never be resolved, but through honest and frank discussion we hope areas of common ground can be found.

As well as being a platform for original articles, this site aims to be a hub for radical politics and an activist resource. If you are planning a protest, meeting or other radical event please submit it to our calendar. Help keep the directory up-to-date by letting us know about any new websites or feeds that we can add to the aggregator.

We maintain a presence in all the most popular forms of social media so you can keep connected. Please like / follow / befriend / circle / stalk us as you see fit.

We hope you enjoy reading the site, but we can achieve more collectively than we can individually so please do get involved, comment on articles, consider writing one yourself, tell us about meetings, protests, new websites and anything else we should know about.

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Comments policy
We welcome comments, encourage debate and want to see discussion about all the articles on this site, but we do not commit to publish everything submitted. We moderate all comments from new users, regular identified users have their login 'whitelisted'.

We will not publish:

• Flamming or abusive language
• Ad hominem or defamatory attacks
• Racism, sexism or any other bigotry
• Repetition or anything off-topic

Relevant links are very welcome, please embed them in the relevant text. If your going to write a long comment please properly format into paragraphs. Don't cut and paste huge amounts of text from elsewhere, just provide the link.  If you've got a lot to say, why not consider submitting an article in response?

We avoid doing any editing of comments but we may clean up bad grammer or mis-spellings and remove references to subsequent corrections (e.g comments about a spelling mistake). But we won't alter meaning or misrepresent any comments.

Disclaimer: All contributions to this site purely represent the person who writes it and are not necessarily endorsed by anyone else. Details of the editorial team and full list of contributors.