{"id":1802,"date":"2004-03-02T15:11:52","date_gmt":"2004-03-02T15:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/?p=1802"},"modified":"2014-03-21T20:27:59","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T20:27:59","slug":"left-unity-urged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2004\/03\/02\/left-unity-urged\/","title":{"rendered":"Left Unity urged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the largest left meetings in Wales for years has heard renewed calls for left unity in Wales.<\/p>\n<p>Forward Wales <acronym title=\"Assembly Member\">AM<\/acronym>, John Marek, shared a platform with ex-Labour <acronym title=\"Member of Parliament\">MP<\/acronym>, George Galloway, and antiwar campaigner, John Rees in Cardiff University on January 20. The meeting attracted 300 people, many of whom were young. The meeting, <q>British politics at the crossroads<\/q>, was part of a wider campaign to launch a new electoral coalition by Galloway.<\/p>\n<p>This coalition has already pledged not to contest the European elections in Scotland due to the strength of the <acronym title=\"Scottish Socialist Party\">SSP<\/acronym> and its hoped that the left vote in Wales will not be split either, with Forward Wales claiming they have a candidate capable of uniting the left.<\/p>\n<p>John Marek stressed the need to campaign in the communities as well as standing in elections, both locally and on a European level, in order to build a grassroots socialist alternative to New Labour.<\/p>\n<p><cite>Seren Issue 12 Feb. 2004<\/cite><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the largest left meetings in Wales for years has heard renewed calls for left unity in Wales. Forward Wales AM, John Marek, shared a platform with ex-Labour MP, George Galloway, and antiwar campaigner, John Rees in Cardiff University on January 20. The meeting attracted 300 people, many of whom were young. The meeting,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,950],"tags":[955],"class_list":["post-1802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emancipation-liberation","category-issue-07","tag-author-seren"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"views":30441,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1802"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1804,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions\/1804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}