“REMEMBER that an injury to one is an injury to all, be he black or white. While the black worker is oppressed, the white worker cannot be free.”

Writing in South Africa in 1919, the Welshman David Ivon Jones was preaching truly revolutionary politics for that time and place. And it is this extraordinary man and his ideas that we will be celebrating next week on the centenary of his death with an exciting festival of events in his home town, Aberystwyth.  

Sadly, though commemorated in Johannesburg and Moscow for his socialist and anti-apartheid activities, the inhabitants of the place of his birth — save for one small plaque — are largely unaware of his life. However, a group of socialists from a range of parties are now intending to rectify that situation.