Group of WUN members standing in front of a pond surrounded by filled rubbish bags. A group of ducks swim together in the lake. Text reads "Litterpicking in Ystrad Mynach"
At the request of local members & supporters, we went litterpicking in the beautiful Parc Penallta this week!
With the Stute open, we can begin deepening our links with the communities of the surrounding Valleys.
Over the past few weeks our members have been out on stalls in the Caerphilly County area, learning about local problems from members of the public and telling people about our work at the Stute.
Banner that reads Wrecsam Dros Palesteina
Banner that reads Wrecsam Antifascists
Black board that reads Dydd Gลตyl Dewi Hapus
Cupcake with y ddraig goch on it
Today in Wrexham our local members joined @wrexham4palestine.bsky.social and @wrexhamaf.bsky.social in a bloc at the dydd gwyl dewi parade
After weeks of the far-right trying (and failing) to divide Wrexham, our community came together to say that we, Wrecsam, welcome everyone and free Palestine
Joint statement: oppose the Imperialist attack on Iran!
It's been known for years that Andrew Mountbatten-Winsor had a close relationship with paedophile Jeffery Epstein. Now, further evidence has come to light, revealing the depth of Andrewโs involvement. WE ARE DISGUSTED But are these just the actions of one โbad appleโ amongst the royals?
By providing him with press releases, hush money and police security while he partied with Epstein, the so-called โRoyal Familyโ have been protecting and enabling Andrew for a long time. Now they have begun to abandon him, hoping to save themselves from sharing his disgrace. And now, even though he has been arrested, Andrew is being investigated for mere โmisconductโ, not for any potential sexual offences. WE ARE DISGUSTED We ask: when will there be justice for the countless victims of Epstein and his associates? What accountability will the perpetrators & enablers face?
Over the past twenty years we have seen rape culture exposed by #MeToo, the murder of Sarah Everard and now the Epstein files. Itโs clear the rich & powerful will do anything to evade the consequences of their horrific actions. The โRoyal Familyโ is only the most useless and repulsive element of a whole ruling class: a capitalist class which has made assault, abuse and murder of CHILDREN itโs pastime. WE ARE DISGUSTED The whole monarchy, and the capitalist system behind it, is ROTTEN TO THE CORE. Wales does not need this parasitic clique of aristocrats. Wales needs a Socialist Republic.
Donโt let them hide behind Andrew โ the whole monarchy is guilty.
ALT Picture 1: Picture of Welsh Underground Network members gathered in front of a stage in the stute's main hall. They are holding two flags - a green one with the initials CFWI (Cefn Fforest Workers Institute) and a red one with the date 1831 (for the Merthyr Rising). Below is an image of WUN members in hard hats fixing a beam in the stute's ceiling. There is bold red text on this image, reading "Cefn Fforest Stute Report, February 2026"
ALT Picture 2: "The Cefn Fforest Miners Institute is open Our years at the stute have been spent smashing, building, fetching, carrying, painting, plastering, fixing and weeding. We've removed rubble and installed solar panels. Now, thanks to the hard-working stute volunteers, this formerly abandoned building is once again ready to serve the local community. It has already been host to a pantomime, a lecture and a wrestling match! But we're nowhere near finished: this year we'll be repairing the stute's atrium, growing a new community garden and holding some exciting events in its main hall..."
ALT Picture 3: "WUN members get the job done The Welsh Underground Network's founding mission is to restore and empower working class communities like the one in Cefn Fforest. We believe that with enough hard graft and the right plan, the Welsh working class can achieve anything we set our minds to. What we've done at the stute is remarkable, but this is only the first step on the journey. We won't put down our tools until every town in Wales has a stute like this one. Get in touch if you want to come visit the stute with us, if you know of another stute that needs our help, or if you want to join our movement."
Stute Report: the Stute has now opened!
The Welsh Underground Network's founding mission is to restore and empower working class communities like the one in Cefn Forest.
We won't put down our tools till every town in Wales has a worker-owned community centre like the Cefn Forest Miners Institute.
REFORM POLITICIANS THREATEN BANGOR UNI! When Reform UK asked to visit Bangor Uni Debating Society, the society refused. In response, Reform politicians are threatening to cut 100% of the University's funding.
Reform UK'S TANTRUM This is the entitled politics of Reform UK: if you don't invite us to your events, we'll shut down your whole university in the name of "free speech"
"WE'RE COMING FOR YOUยฐ Reform are threatening an act of massive cultural and economic vandalism: hundreds would lose their jobs and thousands would lose their education. Make no mistake, Reform UK are threatening not just Bangor but all of Wales. Reform are coming to take away our universities, our jobs and our country; they want to turn Wales into their personal playground.
Reform UK threaten Welsh jobs and Welsh education! ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐
Party Statement: 81 Years Since The Liberation Of Auschwitz
"The Red Army soldiers who liberated Auschwitz would see the same pain in an emaciated Palestinian in Gaza, as they would in a Jew in the camps they liberated."
A black and yellow text graphic including the the Wrexham Antifacists logo in the bottom right corner reads: "Against fascism, against 'Voice of Wales' Saturday 31st January, 11:00am Queen's Square, Wrexham"
A black and red text graphic including the the Wrexham Antifacists logo in the bottom right corner reads: "Against fascism, against 'Voice of Wales' Saturday 31st January, 11:00am Queen's Square, Wrexham"
A black text graphic on an ombre yellow and pink background, including the the Wrexham Antifacists logo in the bottom right corner reads: "Against fascism, against 'Voice of Wales' Saturday 31st January, 11:00am Queen's Square, Wrexham"
โ ๏ธ Emergency Protest โ ๏ธ
๐ฃ Wrexham says No to Fascism, No to the Far Right, No division in our communities ๐ฃ
โค๏ธIf you believe in solidarity, hope and community, join us at Queens Square 31st Jan, 11:00 for 12:00 protestโค๏ธ
Text reads: Dydd Santes Dwynwen Hapus Dydd Santes Dwynwen, is a day of love. As one version of the story goes, Dwynwen was a princess in the 5th century who rejected the advances of a man. She begged God to have him fall out of love with her, and an angel answered by turning the man into ice. God then grants Dwynwen three wishes, she wishes for the man to be thawed, she wishes for all people to find true love, and she wishes to never marry. "You ask me, my young friend, what place proletarian ideology gives to love?" Alexandra Kollontai, People's Commisar For Social Welfare, Soviet Russia
LOVE UNITES Alexandra Kollontai was a Russian revolutionary, and a Cabinet Member in 1917-1918 in the Bolshevik government. In 1923, she writes a letter about what place love has in the proletarian revolution. The fight for socialism had entered a very real and violent phase. What then, Kollontai was asked, has love got to do with it? She writes that love is not a simple biological factor, it's a social factor, which is influenced by the social base of the people. The economic liberation of the workers had resulted in a social liberation, which gave love a key characteristic to the working class: "Love is an emotion that unites and is consequently of an organising character."
MARXISM AND LOVE "Essentially love is a profoundly social emotion. At all stages of human development love has in different forms, it is true, been an integral part of culture. Even the bourgeoisie, who saw love as a "private matter," was able to channel the expression of love in its class interests. The ideology of the working class must pay even greater attention to the significance of love as a factor which can, like any other psychological or social phenomenon, be channeled to the advantage of the collective." 'Make way for Winged Eros: A Letter to Working Youth' Alexandra Kollontai, 1923
MI GERDDAF GYDA THI Mi gerddaf gyda thi dros Iwybrau maith, A blodau, cรขn a breuddwyd ar ein taith; I'th lygaid syllaf i a dal dy law: Mi gerddaf gyda thi, beth bynnag ddaw. Mi gerddaf gyda thi pan fydd y lloer Felllusern yn y nen ar noson oer. Addawaf i ti'n ghalon i yn Ilwyr: Mi gerddaf gyda thi dry oriau'r hwyr. Mi gerddaf gyda thi drwy weddill f'oes, Pan fydd yr haul ar fryn neu'r dyddiau'n groes; A phan ddaw'r alwad draw, pwy wyr pa awr, Mi gerddaf gyda thi i'r freuddwyd fawr. Dydd Santes Dwynwen Hapus
Dydd Santes Dwynwen Hapus! ๐ฉโค๏ธ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ
Read blackshirts and reds here:
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Weโre deeply sad to hear about the death of Michael Parenti. His work as a Marxist academic in the post-USSR world that our members grew up in helped influence a whole generation to reject the neoliberal status quo and renew the fight for the working class. In our early years as an organisation, we decided to upload important Marxist content to our website, one of these being the PDF of Blackshirts & Reds. Outside of The Dragon Has Two Tongues, this book is the most downloaded piece of Marxist work on our page. We encourage all our followers to read it, and to understand why this loss is so profound to comrades across the world.
Cofiwch Michael Parenti
YSG branded social media tile. Title: The Engine Image is a photo of the gears and belts within an engine Pull quote: What we communists need to conduct, in short, is a class-wide organising drive Byline: Gan Nora Rhiannon
Erthygl newydd gan Nora Rhiannon.
An overview of where the UK left is at the moment and what communists need to do about it!
CYMRU AM BYTH
Image: a poster with red text and a painting in the middle of Lenin leading workers with banners behind. Text reads: 108 YEARS SINCE THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION THE REVOLUTION CONTINUES JOIN THE FIGHT FOR A SOCIALIST REPUBLIC TODAY!
The Bolshevik Revolution, when the workers overthrow the kings and capitalists of Russia, was an inspiration to Wales in 1917 and it continues to today.
The fight against kings and capitalists continue - ymunwch!
The Welsh Underground Network will be at the Newport Rising Radical Book Fair tomorrow, debuting our new pamphlet! Come down and grab a copy, 10:00-16:00, at the Riverfront Arts Centre NP20 1HG
Two people with litter pickers and bin bags walk through sandy dunes.
As a movement, we believe in collective action, and this is what it looks like to us - caring about where we live, doing what needs to be done to make it better.
Like what we do? Get involved today! welshundergroundnetwork.cymru/join-us/
4 people in front of 5 bin bags and a pile of litterpickers, holding two flags. One flag is the WUNs emblem, a crossed over hammer and pickaxe in a homage to a hammer and sickle. The other is the Welsh flag, a red dragon on a green and white background.
๐๏ธ๐ฟ Another weekend of action! This Saturday, we cleared up parts of Swansea beach and the nearby playground, we believe in a Wales where the well-being of our environment and our communities is guaranteed without expectation.
Is Welsh Labourโs perfect dictatorship faltering?
#caerphillybyelection
Prescient erthygl gan Morfil Mawr
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Image: A social media graphic with a photo on the top and text in the bottom. The photo is of people in a hall with missing floorboards, theyโre holding a flag with the WUNs logo - a crossed over hammer and pickaxe. Text: 4 years ago, members of Valleys Underground went to the Cefn Forest Miners Institute to help the locals rebuild it. It was derelict and out of use, left to rot, a physical manifestation of what neoliberalism has done to Wales. It was missing floorboards, windows were bricked over, holes in the roof had flooded rooms. Wales once had over 200 halls like this once, all went the same way Cefn forest was going.
Image: a collage of images, 3 by 3, each row has a year at the top. The first row is 2022-2023, the second is 2024, the third is 2025. The images depict the slow rebuilding of the institute. The very central image has text on it saying โevil communists doing evil thingsโ.
Image: This is the same layout of the first post. This time, the image is of the same hall but completely fixed, and full of chairs ready to be used. Text: 4 years on, 'The Stute' has been transformed through the hard work of the local community. For 4 years, we've been turning up weekly to do the dirty work, replacing floorboards, gutting bathrooms, breaking up concrete slabs. We work alongside the community, to show that we don't need to accept the rot. To show that the working class can fight back and save our communities.
Image: this image is just text, which is all black aside from a large slogan at the bottom. Text: "The Stute' is at the core of what we are as a movement - the idea that political change comes from the ground up. Since 2019 and the founding of Valleys Underground, we have been at the service of our communities. We may have been left to rot by the neoliberal British state, from Westminster to the Senedd, but we don't have to accept it. We're not 'do-gooders', we do it because the corrupt and lazy politicians won't fix Wales for us. We do it because we are working class socialists, who already know the truth... WALES WOULD BE BETTER RUN BY THE WORKERS
โ๏ธ 4 years of hard graft, working alongside the community, to put this hall back into their hands. The trade union halls in Wales were built by the workers, theyโll be rebuilt by the workers ๐ช๐ฉ
Fascists do not care about our dead.
Text reads: Member Defence Workshop 30th October 19:00 Cathays Community Centre
Next week on Thursday, @acorncardiff.bsky.social will be hosting a Member Defence Training session. We encourage those in the area to attend to build up the renters union movement in Wales!
Cofiwch Dryweryn.
Wales lost a town just so capitalists in Liverpool could expand their industrial sector.
Our communities will only know justice when we are free to determine our own future, when we are no longer a resource to be pilfered for someone elseโs gain.
Cymru Rhydd โ
Cymru am Byth ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ
Cofiwch Aberfan.
Another year on, one of the most harrowing and avoidable tragedies in our history still looms over us.
Still no real action on securing our tips, no real investment to prevent it happening again.
Wales has a long and storied tradition of standing for justice against oppression, from the Chartists and the Peace Movement, to the Anti-Apartheid Movement and the Minersโ Strikes, weโre proud to be continuing this tradition today ๐ฉ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ
Activists holding a sign which reads โrhyddid i Balesteinaโ on a bridge.
This weekend our members marched in the @auob.cymru independence march in y Rhyl, proudly carrying Palestinian and Welsh flags together.
We marched as part of the Palestine Bloc, joined by internationalists in the independence movement ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟโ๐ต๐ธ
