New Welsh socialist paper sells out

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by left-wing members of Plaid Cymru.

discussion on conference.

STEVE BELL reports.

The left put motion defining wales as a colony of England, exploited by Anglo-American and overseas capital.

It went on to condemn the policies of the Labour government, characterise Wales Act as 'insults to the people of Wales, propose a oycott of the Wales for the campaign, outline a party campaign in the The right won the support of the amendment to work to ensure possible vote, while stressing the aim of full self-government.

The differences are not al first visible. But had the left's motion been unamended they would have hoped to see the campaigning for ally Socialist Vales in referendum.

This Tine is both impractical and sectarian. The fight for the "Yes' vote could hardly be won by such means, and te cit was not about to try and commit the party to forming a Constituent Assembly regardless of the ree enoum.

The right won because they were eminently practical. NEARLY 3,000 copies have been sold of a new Welsh socialist paper, 'Y Faner Goch' [Red Flag], published The left's position has important weaknesses, however. These were most clearly revealed in the devolution at the recent forward a In the words of Emrys Roberts, the devolution proposals allowed him to 'see the master hundred ear seven hundred tunnel"

The referendum will be used SEne not to campaign for socialism, but for Plaid's basically radical bourgeois sorunons work in the *Wales for and Assembly' Can Da 2.

Plaid MP Daffyd Ellis Thomas INSISICU independence is not an issue Within this campaign the left will be unable to promote its Yes free and socialist Wales, as it is prepared to break the 'unity' of the party.

This highlights the dilemma of the left in the Plaid. It is not programmo recons programme incompatible with the 'centrathe list government, but also with . major SOI Cymru. It can't live in the same party forever.

Either it prepares itself for the formation of a new united revolutionary organisation, it will remain powerless inside the Plaid.

NEXT WEEK: An interview with Toni Rees of theY Faner Goch editorial hoard.