[South Wales Socialist League internal discussion document.]

Recent Political History

The outstanding feature of Welsh political life over the last 20 years has been the steady decay in support for Labour and the parallel rise of Plaid Cymru. The roots of this decay lie in the inability of Welsh Labourism to provide answers to the problems posed for Wales by the emerging crisis of international capitalism from the late 1960s. This failure was symbolised by the response of the l964-70 Wilson government of closing down large sections of the Welsh coal industry and rail network.

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