Gwenn ha Du is a party of patriotic Bretons who love their culture, their language, and their people and who wish to secure a future for their homeland. Each day the Breton identity fades further and further into obscurity, its people forced to discard their culture to be a part of modern France. We recognize that this process has been caused by historic and current institutional repression and several laws and political bodies that function with the express purpose of accelerating the decline of our culture. Therefore, we rally under the black and white banner of the Breton state, and reject the foregone conclusion that we, as a distinct culture are on the way out. For we are still Bretons, and we are still here.
Yes, because we affirm the existence of the Breton people as a distinct people with a distinct language and culture. We are not historically French, and while we now find ourselves a part of the modern French state, that does not diminish the necessity of our people to have legal rights towards protecting our culture and language. We cannot any longer stand by and watch as our people lose their culture and language, as once that happens we will cease to be a distinct people. Thus we must push for autonomy and for a federal system of governance which recognizes the Bretons and other struggling peoples within France, Europe and the World.
Gwenn ha Du welcomes people from left and right wing perspectives who believe in the five principles of our party: Home Rule, Cultural Renaissance, Reuniting Brittany, Natural Conservation and Fighting for a fairer Europe. If fighting for a cultural renaissance makes us conservative, then so be it, and if fighting for natural conservation makes us appear of the left, then so be it. Fundamentally we are uninterested with partisan squabbles between left and right because we believe there is a distinct path forward for the Breton people, one which seeks to elevate each and every Breton man and woman to parity with the French. It is a path that seeks to revive our dormant culture, that seeks to bring back together Upper and Lower Brittany, that seeks to protect our unique and beautiful environment and to fight for other peoples of Europe and the world who wish to have their rights recognized. This of course does not mean there is no room for debate within our party, and are open to both left and right wing solutions to the problems before us. However, until we have achieved our primary mission, to make it possible for Breton people to be Breton, our unity will be our greatest strength.