Hoffwn ddechrau fy araith gyda newyddion am fuddugoliaeth bychan arall i ni yn Ewrop - yn rhoi Cymru yn ôl ar y map Ewropeaidd.

Efallai i chi glywed am gynllun newydd 'Ewropas' y Comisiwn Ewropeaidd. Pasport sgiliau yw hyn a fydd yn ei wneud yn haws i gymwysterau pobl ifanc Ewrop gael eu cydnabod gan gyflogwyr ar draws yr Undeb Ewropeaidd gan roi cyfle gwell iddynt gael swydd unrhywle yn Ewrop. Lansiwyd y cynllun gyda gwefan. Ond unwaith eto gadawyd Cymru allan. Mae'r gallu i siarad ieithoedd gwahanol yn rhan o'r cynllun. Ond, gredwch chi fyth, doedd dim modd rhestru'r Gymraeg fel sgil ieithyddol - fel iaith gyntaf nac ail iaith. Roedd y Gatalaneg, Arabaidd, yr Hebraeg, Ffrangeg, Saesneg i gyd yno - ond dim Cymraeg. Gwnes i godi'r mater gyda'r Comisiynydd Ewropeaidd ar unwaith ac rwy'n falch i ddweud iddo ymateb yn syth a cywiro'r safle gwe o fewn 2 ddydd fel y gallwch yn awr restru'r Gymraeg fel sgil ieithyddol lawn Ewropeaidd fel rhan o'r cynllun cyflogaeth Ewropeaidd yma.

Roedd hyn yn fuddugoliaeth bwysig ond mae gennym frwydr fwy o’n blaenau yn awr.

Saith mlynedd yn ôl pan wnaethon ni glywed ein bod yn llwyddiannus yn ennill arian Amcan Un i Orllewin Cymru a'r Cymoedd roeddem ar ben ein digon - o'r diwedd byddai gennym yr arian i wneud y buddsoddiad angenrheidiol i'n economi a fyddai'n llusgo'n cymunedau allan o dlodi..

Doedd y llwybr i gael Amcan Un ddim yn rhwydd - ac oni bai am ddygnwch a dyfalbarhad ein ASau yn San Steffan, a chyfarfodydd allweddol a drefnwyd gan Dafydd Wigley yn arbennig, gallem fod wedi colli allan - prawf, os byth oedd angen, o bwysigrwydd cael Aelodau Seneddol Plaid Cymru i frwydro dros Gymru yn Llundain.

Ac yna daeth o brwydrau dros arian cyfatebol - Llafur Newydd yn benderfynol o ddal eu gafael yn haearnaidd ar yr arian yn Llundain tra fod Alun Michael, lawr yn y bae, yn ufudd was i'w feistr. Ond, doedd e heb ragweld grym Phil Williams a ymchwiliodd i'r celwyddau a datgelu'r gwirionedd.

Ac mae Rhodri Morgan, chwarae teg, yr un mor effeithiol a'i ragflaenydd yn amddiffyn llywodraeth Blair ar draul cymunedau tlotaf Cymru.

Y trasiedi yw fod Gorllewin Cymru a'r Cymoedd yn awr yn dlotach nac oedd cyn ennill statws Amcan Un. Mae'r ffigurau diweddaraf yn gosod GDP ar 73.8% o gyfartaledd yr Undeb - is nac oedd ym 1999.

Dim ond Llafur Newydd - dim ond Llafur Newydd - allai dderbyn biliwn o bunnoedd a gwneud dim ceiniog o elw.

Pan ydyn ni'n dweud yng Nghytundeb y Bobl, a lansir yn y gynhadledd hon, y byddwn yn ymladd i sicrhau yr arian Ewropeaidd a chyfatebol llawn sydd gan Orllewin Cymru a'r Cymoedd yr hawl iddi wedi 2007 nid addewid gwag mohono. Ryn ni'n golygu pob gair.

Roedd yr arian Amcan 1 yma i fod i drawsnewid economi Gorllewin Cymru a'r Cymoedd. Dywedwyd mai dyma'r un cyfle oedd gennym. Ond oherwydd methiant Llafur Newydd rydyn ni'n cael ail gyfle. Rydyn ni dal yn dlawd ac yn gymwys ar gyfer y lefel uchaf o ariannu pan wneir y penderfyniad yn uwchgynhadledd Mehefin eleni. Hynny yw - os nad yw Tony Blair yn blocio'r penderfyniad.

Syniad mawr diweddaraf Llafur Newydd yw i ddiddymu ariannu Rhanbarthol Ewropeaidd yn llwyr a rheoli popeth o Lundain. Ar Fawrth y 1af byddwn yn lansio ymgyrch i wneud yn siwr nad ydyn nhw'n llwyddo dwyn o Gymru eto. Mae Llafur Newydd yn y Cynulliad Cenedlaethol - fel bob amser - yn dweud dim. Fel gwnaethon nhw am ymosod ar a meddiannu Irac yn anghyfreithlon.

Pa lywodraeth arall yn y byd na fyddai'n brwydro'n galed dros gannoedd ar filoedd o bunnoedd mae ganddo'r hawl iddo?

Rydyn ni ym Mhlaid Cymru yn gwneud yr hyn rydym yma i wneud - i gael y gorau i Gymru - i gael i Gymru yr hyn sydd gan wledydd eraill.

Mae Cymru yn haeddu ail gyfle, peidiwch gadael i Llafur ei wastraffu!

Edrychwch o'ch amgylch yn y ganolfan odidog yma ar gyfer y celfyddydau a adeiladwyd gan Gyngor Gwynedd - gan Blaid Cymru - gyda chefnogaeth arian Ewropeaidd ac arall ar gyfer pobl Caernarfon a Chymru.

Mae e ar gyfer y bobl. A pobl sydd wrth wraidd ein polisïau i gyd. Nid cystadleuaeth diwydiant - ymdrechion Tony Blair i gael elw mawr i fusnesau mawr. ONd i bobl yn eu cymunedau. Ni yw plaid Cymru - yn atebol i chi, bobl Cymru, a neb arall. Rydym ni bob amser yn rhoi eich diddordebau chi yn gyntaf.

A dyna sydd yn gwneud y blaid hon mor wahanol.

Edrychwch ar hawliau gweithwyr. Mae Llafur Newydd yn gyson yn ceisio rhwystro hawliau i weithwyr yng Nghymru a fyddai'n ein codi i'r un safon a gweddill Ewrop - ac yn aml yn llwyddo. Does dim angen mynd yn bellach na Chaernarfon i weld sut mae hyn yn effeithio ar fywydau pobl. Gall cyn weithwyr Fricton Dynamex ddweud wrthoch chi. Roedden nhw ar flaen y gad yn brwydro yn erbyn llywodraeth Llafur Newydd! A colli eu swyddi gwnaethon nhw beth bynnag.

Ar y cychwyn roedd gweithredoedd y llywodraeth Llafur yma'n anghredadwy. Ond erbyn hyn rydyn ni'n gwybod sut rai ydyn nhw nawr.

Through European laws we could have put measures in place in Wales to help prevent widespread job losses and company closures. We could have had effective programmes to help workers to find alternative unemployment when there are large scale redundancies. There are better measures in place in other countries like Germany and Sweden to reduce the social affects. In other countries trades unions play a pivotal role in the decision making and ensuring that workers are informed of potential problems and, if the worst happens, retrained and helped to find other work. They have local networks with companies in each area to provide early warning of job losses or closures with effective risk analysis.

This year some workers in Wales should finally be given rights on getting information and being consulted about changes in their companies - years after the rest of Europe thanks to a delay negotiated by Blair's government. And workers in companies with less than a 100 employees will have to wait another 2 years.

Since New Labour came to power Wales has lost more manufacturing jobs than the rest of UK - about 5,000 per year on average. The First Minister Rhodri Morgan said that you can't predict what individual firms are going to do. Well actually you can! Other countries do it. They don't just respond to the announcement of job losses. They have rapid response mechanisms in place to try and prevent redundancies and provide alternative employment if there is no alternative. What happens in Wales? It took the Welsh Assembly Government six months put a clean-up and retraining package in place for Ebbw Vale after the Corus job losses.

We've been trying to get a European law to protect agency workers and temporary workers for several years now in the European Parliament. This is one of the most vulnerable sectors of the workforce. But a proposal in March 2002 to give equal rights to temporary workers as permanent workers have is still being delayed by the UK government in the European Council. They've been lobbying against it and attempted to weaken it from the start.

And one of the worst examples of New Labour policies that we’ve seen has been on pension rights. After working hard for decades, the former workers at the Allied Steel and Wire plant found themselves cheated. It was heartbreaking to hear the story of one of the workers when he came to Brussels to present a petition to the European Parliament. Everyone we met was horrified to hear that there was absolutely no protection for their pensions when their company went bankrupt. This breaks a European law that was passed 24 years ago saying that governments should protect the pensions of these workers. The workers themselves have had to take the issue to the High Court and now to the European Court of justice to try and get justice. This is New Labour in government. And now the pension level of thousand of local government workers are under threat, especially effecting the low paid and women who've taken 'career breaks' to raise a family.

Thirty years after European equal pay laws came into force in the UK, women still earn 16% less than men on average. Recent research by the GMB Union showed the extent of the pay gap. Women in Wales earn on average just 78.6% of that of men. Women's full time pay in Anglesey is as low as 59% of men's! That means taking home £300 a week compared to £500 for men. The situation is poor across Wales with Wrexham, Ceredigion and Cardiff all below average and Newport, Rhondda Cynon Taf and Carmarthenshire not faring much better at around 80%. Despite the laws there is a lack of political will to tackle the problem.

In a European Commission study last year it was shown that employment for women had increased and women took up 6 million extra jobs compared with the four million taken up by men. But this says nothing about the quality of the jobs or the large increase in women taking up a second job or doing two or more part-time jobs to make ends meet, as we all know is happening in Wales.

This government's stance on social protection for people really is astounding. When Peter Hain was the UK Government’s representative on the body that prepared the constitutional treaty for the EU he, along with his Spanish and Estonian counterparts, published a paper on the future of a ‘Social Europe’. They opposed further social protection for workers and stressed the importance of ‘flexibility’ for the labour market. The paper states: “Recessions will be deeper and the swings in the economic cycle more disruptive if wages and employment levels cannot adjust quickly and flexibly to changes in market conditions”. It's obvious that this ‘flexibility' means flexibility for companies to sack workers and offer lower wages - not the 'flexibility' we need to combine work with family life or other responsibilities. I criticised this paper in a letter to Peter Hain and received supportive messages from the GMB, UNISON and the TUC amongst others. I received no response from him.

You might say that we had the same under the Tories. Yes we did! And that’s the point! There is no difference! The worst Thatcher legislation against workers hasn’t been changed. And New Labour in Wales is New Labour in London. There is no difference!

That’s why you need Plaid Cymru fighting for you at all levels. We have principles and we are true to those principles. We are here because we believe in what Wales can achieve. We can take our place with the other countries of Europe in taking forward a progressive socialist agenda which will improve peoples’ lives. Wales can contribute to the rest of Europe and the world - as well as gaining from the benefits of being an independent country. We are not in the pockets of big business or George Bush and we are not afraid to say so. In fact, we do say so, and very loudly! And our MPs in Westminster are leading the challenge to New Labour.

Without Plaid Cymru the people of Wales have no-one standing up for them. Plaid Cymru MPs have been trusted and respected by people all over Wales to be a voice not only for their constituents but for all of us. Our Peoples Contract with you is a promise to you in this election that we will carry on doing that. We don’t spin. Our feet are firmly on the ground. We are your party. We belong to you. We want what you want and we will fight for that - always.