Now at 115,000 members and in some polls level with Labour in terms of public support, CHRIS JARVIS looks at the factors behind the rapid rise of the Greens, internal and external
Art and politics intertwine at the Eisteddfod
MEIC BIRTWISTLE wanders through an exhibition that captures the soul of the Valleys, past and present, as Archdruids rub shoulders with Cuban ambassadors in Pontypridd
The entrance to the Eisteddfod festival 2024
Witnessing a war of words at a meeting on tackling militarism at The World Transformed, BEN COWLES spoke to a union rep who is organising against war from inside the arms industry itself, to hear about worker-led solutions to ending weapons production
FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ, ROGER D HARRIS and JOHN PERRY contrast Trump’s warships and F-35 fighters threatening Venezuela with the $20bn bailout for Milei’s collapsed economy, all enabled by a highly ideological IMF
KAY GREEN explains how the Middle East and colonialism were explored at at last weekend’s FiLiA conference
ROS SITWELL reports from Europe’s largest feminist conference – hosted this year in Brighton
Morning Star campaigns manager CALVIN TUCKER gives an update on the drive to raise £95,000 to see the people’s paper keep fighting the good fight against the rich and powerful
THE beginning of the week at the National Eisteddfod saw the National Library of Wales celebrating the life of the late Labour politician Ann Clwyd. She won her constituency, Cwm Cynon, part of the “bro” or catchment area for this year’s festival, in the miners’ strike of 1984. Before her death, she had contributed 260 boxes of material to the library’s political archive.
A controversial figure in Welsh politics, her major feat was to be elected in Cwm Cynon, the first female MP to represent a south Wales industrial Valleys seat, and then only the fourth female MP in Welsh history.
And so it was totally fitting to see Wales’ first female first minister, Eluned Morgan, on the panel, and describing Clwyd as “a fighter and one who was willing to upset people if necessary for an issue she believed in.”
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