Old Wyndham still ran the garage, and the local bus, in Trawsfynydd, up the valley, north-west of Gwenton. The Owens brothers and their families, every year, rented his two caravans for their holidays - Second Generation, 1964

If we are looking for one position from which this work of struggle and renewal has already begun, it is this: that since there are many peoples and cultures, there will be many socialisms - Towards Many Socialisms, 1985

But working class #materialism - the collective improvement of the common life - is objectively, in our circumstances, a humane ideal - Working Class Culture, in Universities & Left Review, 1957, Vol.1 No 2

Are we to understand 'culture' as 'the arts', as 'a system of meanings and values', or as a 'whole way of life', and how are these to be related to 'society' and 'the economy'? - Marxism and Literature, 1977

@llannerch.bsky.social: "To be truly radical is to make hope possible instead of despair convincing" < Love this! #LeadersF25

Places like London are having their attempts to satisfy real popular needs stopped by the central machine. This of course reproduces the case that has been made in Wales and Scotland for a long time - 'Decentralism and the Politics of Place', in Society and Space, 1985

In the deep cross-valley, under the Cotswold scarp, the trees of early November still held their dying leaves - Loyalties, 1985

#Chartism is an ideal beyond the terms of any dominant group in the society, and is more than an expression of democratic aspirations; [it] is also an assertion of an individual dignity transcending #class - The Long Revolution, 1961

News readers on both major [UK] channels are now media personalities: their identity is strongly projected, and they are presented as adding their personality to the news - notes to the 2nd ed., Television: Technology and Cultural Form, 1990

The strategy [for the Left] is all still to be found, but what blocks it is this old model of creating a relatively powerful, united Britain with a 'successful' sovereign econony. That, I think, is what history has ruled out - The Practice of Possibility, in @newstatesman1913.bsky.social, 1987

"There are Welsh among our neighbours, my Lord. They give us no trouble" "Welsh and give no trouble?" the lord laughed. He turned to enjoy his joke with the troop - People of the Black Mountains 2: The Eggs of the Eagle, 1990

Ysbryd Harri Webb ar gerdded heno mi dybiaf: The sprit of Harri Webb: (Medievalism always read symbolically. Driving the fascists - Farage, Tice - back over the border tonight I hope)

People have to, in the end, direct their own lives, control their own places, live by their own feelings - 'Culture and Politics: @plaidcymru.bsky.social's Challenge to Wales', 1975 (originally a BBC Radio 3 lecture)

The definition of bourgeois society was a central concept in #Marx, yet especially in some of his early work the term is ambiguous - Keywords (2nd ed.), 1983

Old Wyndham still ran the garage, and the local bus, in Trawsfynydd, up the valley, north-west of Gwenton. The Owens brothers and their families, every year, rented his two caravans for their holidays - Second Generation, 1964

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Brecht looked for historical instances and for parables as a way of teaching us lessons, not only about history, but about the contemporary world - English Brecht, in London Review of Books, 1981

The very continuance of the power system we have called the new #imperialism underlies much of the foreign policy in European countries which socialists have had to fight against so hard - #MayDay Manifesto, 1968

The long argument about Soviet Communism and its consequences, though it has many vested interests on both sides, is no longer central: its lessons, rather than its enclosed antagonisms have been placed in a new perspective - The Red and the Green, in @lrb.co.uk, 1983

When I was teaching political economy in California, which sounds like a joke in itself, we didn’t go anywhere around by car, we went on the buses and on trains, and I have never seen such poverty, at least in any comparable country - Ecology & the Labour Movement lecture, 1984

Working with the @weaadulted.bsky.social is not just a matter of committees, important as they are [but] also a matter of constant experiment in teaching, and the WEA is one of the very few institutions in which this is possible - An Open Letter to WEA Tutors, 1961

Fahrenheit 451 is characteristic of books of this type in that, under the emblem of a story of the future, it presents not so much an observation, but a current form of feeling related primarily to contemporary society - Science Fiction, in The Highway (the journal of @weaadulted.bsky.social), 1956

The thrust of this collection of essays, by a relatively young generation, is a questioning of an accepted cultural version of Welshness - West of Offa's Dyke, review of Tony Curtis ed., Wales: The Imagined Nation, 1986

Can we agree, perhaps, before passing to the more difficult questions, that #football is indeed a wonderful game, that jazz is a real musical form, and that gardening and homemaking are indeed important? - Freedom and Ownership in the Arts, @newleftreview.bsky.social#football 1960 #NSHD2025

The term [structures of feeling] is difficult, but 'feeling' is chosen to emphasize a distinction from more formal concepts of 'world-view' or 'ideology' - Marxism and Literature, 1977

I puzzled for years about those Home Counties: home to whom or for what? - Wales and England, 1983

As Orwell wrote in 1939: What we always forget is that the overwhelming bulk of the British proletariat does not live in Britain, but in Asia and Africa - The Country And The City, 1973

The term [structures of feeling] is difficult, but 'feeling' is chosen to emphasize a distinction from more formal concepts of 'world-view' or 'ideology' - Marxism and Literature, 1977

It was a very great shock for a whole generation of socialists to live through from the 1930s to the 1950s with the steady accumulation of overwhelming evidence of all that had gone wrong with the Russian Revolution - 'You're a Marxist Aren't You?', 1975

Nothing is more significant, in the continuing formation of the Labour Left, than the centrality of Parliament as the main - indeed often the only - agency for [social democratic] changes - 'Notes on #Marxism in Britain since 1945' in @newleftreview.bsky.social, no. 100, 1976

It can be said that the Welsh people have been oppressed by the English State for some seven centuries. Yet it can also be said that the English people have been oppressed by the English State for even longer - Wales and England, 1983

People were physically massed, in the industrial towns, and a new class structure (the names of our social classes, and the word ‘class’ itself in this sense, date only from the Industrial Revolution) was practically imposed - Culture Is Ordinary, 1958

'Nationalism', he said, precisely, 'is in the sense like class. To have it, and to feel it, is the only way to end it. If you fail to claim it, or give it up too soon, you will be merely cheated, by other classes and other nations - Second Generation, 1964

It was #Gramsci’s whole object to see and to create by organization the hegemony of a proletarian kind which is capable of challenging the bourgeois hegemony - Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory, @newleftreview.bsky.social, 1973 (later republished in Culture and Materialism)

Can we agree, perhaps, before passing to the more difficult questions, that #football is indeed a wonderful game, that jazz is a real musical form, and that gardening and homemaking are indeed important? - Freedom and Ownership in the Arts, @newleftreview.bsky.social#football 1960 #NSHD2025

Working with the @weaadulted.bsky.social is not just a matter of committees, important as they are [but] also a matter of constant experiment in teaching, and the WEA is one of the very few institutions in which this is possible - An Open Letter to WEA Tutors, 1961

He had done all he meant to on Spain, and was now working more generally on the Mediterranean 'Not even one last little book on the Civil War?' Monkey asked, after some eager questioning on the Mediterranean work. 'It could hardly be little' - Loyalties, 1985

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There is the problem of democratic control of these #media, for here it is a straight choice, because of the capital involved, between existing types of ownership and some kind of social ownership - Working Class Culture, in Universities & Left Review Summer, 1957

Many British working-class people welcomed American culture, or the Americanised character of British commercial television as an alternative to a British 'public' version which, from a subordinate position, they already knew too well - Television, second ed. 1990

Throughout the history of European culture, civic responsibility has often been more important than national responsibility - 1984 interview with Stephen Heath and Gillian Skirrow, in 'Cultural Materialism on Raymond Williams', 1995

"We're the power, we the working class are defying the bosses' government, going to build our own social system" - Morgan Rosser in Border Country, 1960

It is not surprising that many people now see in the Labour Party merely an alternative power-group, and in the trade union movement merely a set of men playing the market in very much the terms of the employers they oppose - The Long Revolution, 1961

Throughout the history of European culture, civic responsibility has often been more important than national responsibility - 1984 interview with Stephen Heath & Gillian Skirrow, in 'Cultural Materialism on Raymond Williams', 1995

In one way, the basic choice is between control and freedom, but in actual terms it is more often a choice between a measure of control and a measure of freedom, and the substantial argument is about how these can be combined - Communications, second ed., 1966

The long argument about Soviet Communism and its consequences, though it has many vested interests on both sides, is no longer central: its lessons, rather than its enclosed antagonisms have been placed in a new perspective - The Red and the Green, LRB, 1983 www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v0...

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We should be thinking, now, about ways of paying for our common services which will guarantee proper freedom to those who actually provide the service, while protecting them and us against a domineering minority whether political or financial - Culture Is Ordinary, 1958

Berin son of Clutacos walked slowly up the stony track to Banavint. The old defence banks and ramparts of the stronghold had been slighted - People of The Black Mountains: The Eggs of the Eagle, 1990