The series includes Communist Party policy and research documents on the mining industry, especially in South Wales, with papers relating to health issues including pneumoconiosis, and to the campaigns to stop the closure of pits. The series also includes material relating to the NCB, NUM, and trade unions; publications, leaflets, correspondence and newspaper cuttings.
Great Britain. National Coal Board
The file includes the constitution, press releases and papers relating to the 'Poleaxe the Poll Tax', Cardiff co-ordinating committee.
Bert Pearce (Welsh Communist Party) Papers
The fonds comprises papers accumulated by Bert Pearce including the minutes and papers of the Communist Party Great Britain, 1921-1998, Communist Party Wales, 1884-2002, and the Democratic Left, 1978-1999. Also included are papers relating to elections, devolution in Wales and Scotland, industry, miners strikes, anti-apartheid, international affairs, peace movement, Peoples March for Jobs, and the poll tax campaign. The accumulated papers reflect Bert Pearce's life work for the Communist Party in Birmingham and Wales, as well as the active part he played in the campaigns listed above. The archive does not contain personal material.
Pearce, Bert
The series includes leaflets and papers relating to peace groups, CND, nuclear power, and Vietnam.
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
'Education and plans by Gwyn Williams and Bert Pearce.'
The file comprises Party education programmes, plans for publications and election leaflets, with letters to Bert Pearce from Professor Gwyn A. Williams relating to Communist study schools.
Williams, Gwyn A.
The file includes letters to Bert Pearce, 1965-1996, mainly from fellow Communists in Wales, including Gwyn Alf Williams, Hywel Francis, Dr Julian Tudor Hart and Idris Cox, with material relating to T. E. Nicholas.
Williams, Gwyn A.
Communist Party Wales District
The group consists of Communist Party Wales District papers, including papers relating to Congress, 1945-1991, the Welsh executive committee, 1958-1991, and the Wales District, 1916-2002. The group includes publications, 1884-1998, subject files, 1935-2000, and files relating to Party education, 1929-1998, devolution in Wales and Scotland, 1936-1998, industry and industrial disputes, including the miners' strikes, 1892-1998, campaigns for peace, anti-apartheid, peoples march for jobs, and the poll tax, 1919-1995, and elections, 1934-1996.
Horner, Arthur, 1894-1968
The series comprises local election leaflets, 1946-1947, c.1950-1992, (with gaps, mainly 1960s and 1970s), relating to Communist Party candidates in South Wales. Files WE 5/3-22 also include election results, and papers relating to the arrangements of the campaigns.
The series contains papers relating to the Green Socialist Network / Rhwydwaith Sosialaidd Gwyrdd, an environmental group which was affiliated to the Democratic Left, including the 'GreenSocs' magazine, newsletters, minutes and correspondence.
The file contains copies of The Red Kite: Y Barcud Coch, the newsletter for the Democratic Left / Chwith Democrataidd in Wales, 1992-1997 (nos. 2-10, 12-28, 31-32, 36, 40, 45-46).
The file contains copies of New Times, the fortnightly journal of the Democratic Left, July 1992 - December 1998 (nos. 15, 76, 94, 103-104, 107, 109-122, 124, 129, 132, 143-145, 150-154), and New Times monthly magazine, September - November 1999 (issues 7-9), with a copy of New Times : The Changing Face of Politics in the 1990s, edited by Stuart Hall and Martin Jacques, 1990.
The series contains copies of New Times, 1992-1999, with gaps, and Red Kite, 1992-1997, with gaps.
The file comprises financial papers of the Democratic Left, with bank statements of the Communist Party Welsh Committee, 1990-1992, and of the Democratic Left, 1992-1994, and papers relating to the finances of their publications and the resource centre at Brechfa.
The file comprises statements of accounts of the Democratic Left, and related papers.
The series comprises financial papers of the Democratic Left and also of the Communist Party Cardiff branch.
The file includes copies of the Democratic Left constitution, draft constitution and draft Welsh constitution, a copy of New Times New Labour, arguments towards a democratic left, 1997, with documents relating to the transformation of the Party in Wales, 1991, and to the Welsh Communist Party Congress, 1991.
The file includes correspondence, documents relating to the new constitution, and other papers relating to the Democratic Left Wales,1992-1998, with Communist Party Welsh Committee minutes, 1991.