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The Origins of Welsh Nationalism and Plaid Cymru

There was an absence of a nationalist movement in Wales until the late nineteenth century. Marxists should reject the notion that the Llewelyns revolt of the thirteenth century, or Glyndwr’s revolt of the fifteenth century were actually nationalist. Instead we should characterise them as disputes by feudal lords whose ambitions were essentially the enlargement of their territory. There was some play, especially by Glyndwr, of elements of the latent nationality, as in the proposal for a north and south university. But it remained a matter of enlarging the caste area of Glyndwr’s domination.

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