Sunak IN as Tory PM: all OUT for the fight against the ruling class
The Central Committee of the Young Communist League has issued the following statement in response to the declaration of Rishi Sunak as new Tory Prime Minister.
YCL: Fight back against the unjust A Level and vocational qualification results!
The YCL condemns the latest scandalous Government attack on the rights and living conditions of Britain’s working students and urges the youth to organise from their schools and communities and resist this unjust declaration of results. In this latest fiasco, almost 40% of pupils’ predicted results went down by 1 or 2 grades according to […]
YCL designer features in the II Anti-Imperialist Poster Exhibition on Neoliberalism
Comrade Robert Streader, member of our Agitprop Commission, had his work featured in Neoliberalism, the second of four Anti-Imperialist Poster Exhibitions. The exhibition gathers work from 59 artists from 27 countries and 20 organizations. “The world is at a crossroads,” according to the organisers of the first online anti-imperialist poster exhibition. For the International Week […]
Voices of Scotland in the Morning Star: COVID-19 and the balance of class forces
Lanarkshire Branch Secretary Josh Morris, who is also a young GMB shop steward, wrote in the Morning Star about how COVID-19 has changed the balance of class forces with new success in organising at work. Voices of Scotland: “This was true working class solidarity” I usually work as a lifeguard. I sit at the side […]
YCL: SNP & Tories defeat protection for tenants & collective bargaining for carers
The Executive Committee of the Young Communist League has released the following statement condemning the defeat of progressive amendments to the Scotland’s Second Coronvirus Bill by the SNP & the Tories.
Press in Sunderland Global Media: “Tory negligence has killed tens of thousands; the drive for profit risks millions.”
On 16 May 2020 the statement of the Executive Committee on the Government handling of COVID was featured in an article by Sunderland Global Media. YCL: “Tory negligence has killed tens of thousands; the drive for profit risks millions” The youth wing of the Communist Party of Britain, Young Communist League, this week released a […]
Press in Daily Record: Communist graffiti “display of anger” towards UK Government’s handling of pandemic
On 13 May 2020 our Lanarkshire Branch Secretary Josh Morris talked to East Kilbride News about graffiti that had appeared in the local area. Communist slogans daubed across East Kilbride “display anger” towards UK Government’s handling of pandemic, by Fraser N Wilson The secretary of an emerging political group has moved to distance his party […]
Press in Edinburgh Live: “Make the rich pay for COVID-19!”
On 3 April 2020 the YCL was asked for comment on the appearance of graffiti in Edinburgh. ‘Make the rich pay’: Story behind strange graffiti appearing in Edinburgh amid coronavirus outbreak, by Claire Galloway Politically-charged graffiti has emerged in Edinburgh, some of which features threatening messages to politicians and public figures. The YCL, who “fight […]
YCL: Tory lies and negligence in face of mounting COVID-19 crisis
The Young Communist League has issued an updated statement on the ongoing Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis and the criminal failure of Boris Johnson’s Tory government to protect working people in Britain. YCL: Tory government’s response to Coronavirus is criminal – 13 March 2020. Communist Party of Britain statement on the COVID-19 crisis – 19 March 2020. […]
General Secretary in the Morning Star: The pandemic, capitalism and how the YCL is organising to help
YCL General Secretary Johnnie Hunter wrote in the Morning Star about the pandemic, how it has exposed the barbarity of capitalism and how the Young Communist League was organising to help. The pandemic calls for solidarity against those who seek to exploit us – and the YCL is organising to help “Human beings are naturally […]
