http://www.llgc.org.uk/ymgyrchu/Llafur/1926/MNS.htm
http://libcom.org/history/syndicalism-south-wales-origins-miners%E2%80%99-next-step
The future social organisation must be made solely from the bottom up, by the free association or federation of workers, firstly in their unions, then in the communes, regions, nations and finally in a great federation, international and universal.
Mikhail Bakunin
The idea that Bakunin outlined above laid the foundations of Syndicalism, an alternative to authoritarian or state socialism.
One of the key documents relating to syndicalism was published in Tonypandy 100 years ago.
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Mardy was a pit that maintained it's strong millitant traditions right up until its closure in 1990, and which was noteworthy during the 1984/85 Miners' Strike as the workers maintained 100% adherence to the strike and loyalty to the cause.
The area's proud radical tradition is also reflected in the fact that it was referred to as Little Moscow, and, in the very year that Thatcher came to power, The Rhondda elected a Communist mayor-Annie Powell (1906-1986).