Cymru Goch (2) leaves the Welsh Socialist Alliance - 2002
More on Cymru Goch https://welshmaoist.blogspot.com/2025/08/y-faner-goch-late-90s-early-2000s.html To Julian Goss, Welsh Socialist Alliance Secretary Despite being a founder member of the Welsh Socialist Alliance, Cymru Goch will not be re-affiliating to the WSA for a number of reasons. Firstly, the WSA has failed to develop as an alliance in terms of attracting non-aligned members who put the alliance before party affiliation. For the first four years of the WSA , Cymru Goch put the alliance first in terms of our priorities and have consistently pushed for a deeper, broader alliance to bring together the left in Wales. We have always supported calls to become a party on the Scottish model – one that united the majority of the Welsh left – but this has been resisted by others for what we feel are narrow, sectarian reasons. An opportunity has been missed. Secondly, it remains little more than an electoral flag of convenience. The SWP , which is the largest grou...
