In the 1830s Wales was a hotbed of the Britain’s Chartist movement and produced Robert Owen, a utopian socialist thinker and pioneer decades, before Karl Marx arrived in London.
South Wales miners played a leading role in Britain’s early socialist movement and their South Wales Socialist Society was one of the groups which came together to found the Communist Party in 1920.
The Communist Party has a proud history fighting for the Welsh people and the working class.
We have supported the creation of a powerful Parliament for Wales, able to intervene for working people for the past 80 years. We campaigned for a Wales TUC and its first chair was Communist miners’ leader Dai Francis.
Welsh Communists have long pioneered celebration and development of the Welsh language and culture. We regularly participate in the Eisteddfod and promote initiatives across all of our work.
Communists have always been in the front-line of campaigns for jobs, workers’ rights, public services and housing – and against pollution and foreign wars.
Wales has been subjected to the same deindustrialisation and attacks on public services that have been inflicted on working class communities across Britain.
Welsh Communists are fighting for real powers for the people of Wales to address the crisis and put Wales, and all of Britain, on the road to socialism.
Our Welsh Congress and Committee democratically direct the work of our comrades and branches in Wales, developing and applying Communist policy according to national conditions.
You can read our programme, Real Power for the People of Wales, here: Real Power for the People of Wales.
For more information about how to contact the Welsh Committee, access the Members Area.
