Steve Mann

[Internal IMG discussion document]

With the abdication of the national question by the gentry, and the integration up to this day of Welsh capital into the British bourgeois state there is no class layer in Wales with a material interest in a separate Welsh state. The petty bourgeois layers who have maintained national aspirations throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (intellectuals, students, small farmers and ’low’ church ministers) can defend their interests only in alliance with the major classes. Their movement has gained ’national’ strength in Wales only when the working class has identified with their movement.

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