Support the Women’s Assembly Against Austerity!
Anita Wright, Secretary of the National Assembly of Women and Communist Party Executive Committee, member calls for women to attend the Women’s Assembly Against Austerity in this article from the Morning Star. The YCL welcomes this initiative as ruling class austerity is hitting women, and even more especially young women, particularly hard. Cuts in legal […]
Voices for the Miami 5
The Young Communist League and the Communist Party are supporting a major new online campaign for the Miami Five and are asking comrades, supporters of Cuban socialism and all those who believe in justice to add your voice of support to it. This Campaign has been established to build and mobilise support for the Miami […]
Communist Party Of Ukraine: How to Save Ukraine from Civil War
The following statement is from the Press Office of the Communist Party of Ukraine. The YCL expresses our solidarity with the Communist Party of the Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. We oppose the meddling of the EU and the USA in the domestic affairs of a sovereign nation. Please see the original statement here. The […]
Communist Party Political Committee Report 22/01/2014
Communist Party vice chair Liz Payne accused the the Liberal Democrats of ‘sinking in a swamp of opportunism’ at her party’s political committee on Wednesday. / ‘They no longer defend civil liberties and they certainly don’t stand up for the rights of women in public life’, declared Ms Payne, who is also CP national women’s […]
Prospects For Nuclear Disarmament In Britain
Alan Mackinnon, secretary of Scottish CND & Scottish Committee member of the Communist Party, argues that the campaign to reject Trident needs to keep up the pressure both north and south of the border in 2014. This article first appeared in the Morning Star 20/01/2014. Last month a report from the House of Commons defence select committee highlighted the stark […]
CP Cadre Schools Spring 2014
CP POLITICAL DAY SCHOOLS: Communists kick off 2014 campaigning Communists in the East of England will convene a political day school on 25th January in Cambridge. CP members and supporters from throughout the district, which stretches from Southend to Norwich will attend sessions to discuss and plan campaigns for: the No2EU Yes to Worker’s Rights […]
Launch of YCL Scotland Website
Comrades, I am very pleased to see the launching of this website dedicated to reporting on the YCL in Scotland, our work, our news and our analysis of the current political situation as it unfolds and as it looks to develop. It has been a long time coming. We have gone from strength to […]
London Recruits: The Secret War Against Apartheid
With the sad passing of the great Mandela it is up to the left and anti-imperialist forces to remember him as the militant freedom fighter he was, and prevent the media and right-wing politicians from white washing history. In Britain we hear the Tories talk as though Mandela was a great friend and inspiration of […]
South Sudan: Communists call for an end to violence
On 9 January 2014, the Communist Party of the State of South Sudan issued a statement declaring its position on the current situation in South Sudan. Excerpts include: The Communist party issued a statement when President Salva Keir liquidated his cabinet and sacked his deputy in 2013, in that statement we called this action as […]
YCL Condemns Fire Station Closures in London
Ten London fire stations have closed their doors for the last time as callous Tory Mayor Boris Johnson pushed through £50 million of cuts to the fire and rescue service against overwhelming public opposition. Johnson’s cuts will save each household a paltry 7 pence a week, at a cost of 552 jobs and 14 fire […]
