The file includes papers relating to education programmes for Wales, the theology and ideology committee, weekend and summer schools, Communist Party education packs relating to Poland and to Sam Aaronovitch's The road from Thatcherism : the alternative economic strategy (1981), with a letter from Sam Aaronovitch to Bert Pearce.
Aaronovitch, Sam
The file includes Marxism Today editorial board minutes and correspondence, with copies of articles.
The file includes Marxism Today editorial board minutes and correspondence, notes by Bert Pearce and related papers.
The file includes material relating to Councillor Edgar Evans, or 'Edgar the Ironmonger' as he was known, who served a prison sentence of nine months in 1936 for the part he played in the fight to establish a lodge of the South Wales Miners' Federation at the Taff Merthyr Colliery. There is a photograph of the first group of those committed for trial at Taff Merthyr, and twelve photographs of the demonstration and meeting in support of them. The file also includes greetings to Edgar Evans from Tom Mann, Harry Pollitt, and T. E. Nicholas, 1936, with related correspondence, and Edgar Evans' County Council Election leaflet, 1946.
South Wales Miners' Federation
Economy, industry and unemployment
The series comprises papers relating to the economy of Wales, unemployment, the South Wales valleys, industry and agriculture.
The file comprises Communist Party publications and reports on economics, industry and unemployment.
The file contains Memorandum on the Industrial Situation After the War (1916), and Industry in Rural Wales (1966), with Communist Party typescript reports on the British economy.
The file comprises the 'first draft', drafts divided into named chapters (3 folders), the 'second draft' (2 folders), and the 'final draft'. Also included are notes and annotations by Bert Pearce, and correspondence discussing the revisions.
'DL Wales - Policies on Parliament for Wales'
The file comprises a background paper for the Democratic Left Welsh Conference, October 1992, by Bert Pearce on 'An elected Democratic National Assembly for Wales', with related key policy documents.
Democratic Left Wales
The file contains papers relating to the sale of Communist Party literature, correspondence with the South Wales Bookshop Ltd. Cardiff, and 'Book News', lists of books from the distributors, Central Books Ltd. London.
The file contains papers relating to the sale of Communist Party literature, with analysis of branch sales, and accounts and correspondence relating to the South Wales Bookshop Ltd. Cardiff, and Central Books Ltd. London, distributors. The file also includes the 'South Wales Book Shop' stamp.
The file contains mainly printed material relating to devolution in Scotland, including copies of Radical Scotland and the Campaign for a Scottish Assembly campaign material.
The file contains mainly printed material relating to devolution in Scotland, including copies of 'Scottish Marxist' and the Campaign for a Scottish Parliament campaign material.
The group comprises Communist policy documents on devolution, 1936-1994, papers relating to the Welsh language and culture, 1949-1968, Scotland, 1967-1992, devolution referenda, 1979 and 1997, Campaign for a Welsh Assembly papers, 1987-1993, and Parliament for Wales campaign papers, 1992-1998.
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The file includes Communist policy documents on devolution in Wales and Scotland.
The file includes material relating to devolution, and the Wales for the Assembly Campaign, with 1979 referendum campaign leaflets.
The file includes documents relating to devolution and the Campaign for a Welsh Assembly, with an essay by R. O. Humphreys on 'The left and the National question in Wales', 1985.
The file includes Communist policy documents on devolution, including 'The National future of Scotland and Wales', 'The problem of Welsh Nationality and the Communist solution', 'Communist policy and problems of Welsh national development today', 'An outline scheme of self-government for Wales', and 'The National problem in Britain'.
The file comprises printed material on devolution, including Bert Pearce's article on 'The National problem in Britain - reply to discussion', with a draft resolution on democracy in Wales, and a memorandum on the water crisis in Wales.