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Category: History

7 Nov 2018 Young Communist League of Britain

101 Years of the Great October Socialist Revolution

16 Jun 201714 Jun 2017 Young Communist League of Britain

YCL General Secretary Debates EU With French Young Communists

27 Jan 2015 Young Communist League of Britain

YCL Statement on 70th anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz

28 Dec 20144 Jan 2015 Young Communist League of Britain

WW1 – Opposing Imperialist Wars: Then & Now

12 Nov 201413 Nov 2014 Young Communist League of Britain

WFDY Statement on 69th Anniversary of Foundation

9 Nov 20149 Nov 2014 Young Communist League of Britain

Remember the Fallen

24 Sep 201425 Sep 2014 Young Communist League of Britain

Celebrating 150 years since the First International Worker’s Association

8 Sep 20149 Sep 2014 Young Communist League of Britain

Communist Party History Film

2 Aug 20142 Aug 2014 Young Communist League of Britain

WFDY Statement on 100th Anniversary of WWI

1 Apr 2014 Young Communist League of Britain

Kinder Scout Trespass Commemoration – Sponsored Fundraiser

10 Feb 2014 Young Communist League of Britain

YCL North-West Remember the International Brigades

23 Jan 201423 Jan 2014 Young Communist League of Britain

On this day . . . 1929: Scottish NUWM Contingent Sets Off For London

21 Jan 201421 Jan 2014 Young Communist League of Britain

Tribute on 90th Anniversary of Lenin’s Death

14 Jan 2014 Young Communist League of Britain

London Recruits: The Secret War Against Apartheid

9 Jan 20149 Jan 2014 Young Communist League of Britain

CP General Secretary Robert Griffths – “Socialism Does Work” at Oxford Union

31 Dec 2013 Young Communist League of Britain

CP International Department Briefing on Syria

31 Dec 201331 Dec 2013 Young Communist League of Britain

CP International Department Briefing on Palestine

27 Dec 2013 Young Communist League of Britain

Revisiting Mao Zedong After 120 Years

2 Dec 20137 Dec 2013 Young Communist League of Britain

On this day . . . 1956: The Granma reaches Cuba

15 Nov 201321 Nov 2013 Young Communist League of Britain

YCL Statement on 96th anniversary of the October Revolution

10 Nov 201321 Nov 2013 Young Communist League of Britain

YCL Statement on Remembrance Sunday

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3️⃣0️⃣ Reasons why you should join the Communists 📝🔴 Reason #️⃣1️⃣4️⃣ For a democratic and federal Britain 🏴🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Britain is a deeply undemocratic and fractured country. Capitalism is the oppression and exploitation of the working class by the ruling class. All the institutions of the British state are geared to protect the capitalist system. The development of the British state has led an unequal relationship between the nations of Britain. True democracy, national sovereignty and self determination can only be achieved under socialism. But we can and must fight to defend and advance our democratic and national rights now, in the struggle to achieve socialism. The YCL calls for the abolition of the monarchy and the House of Lords. These unelected hangovers from centuries gone past have no place in modern Britain. We demand the 2016 Brexit vote, the biggest democratic manifestation in British history, is respected and Britain makes a clean break with the European Union. The EU is an anti democratic, neoliberal bloc designed only to serve big business. All the nations of Britain – Wales, Scotland, England and Cornwall have the right of self determination. Our working classes share a proud history of joint struggle resisting capitalism and fighting for progressive change. We fight for a new progressive federal structure, as the most effective way of advancing the democratic powers of the peoples of Britain while also achieving a radical redistribution of wealth to the regions and nations of the country. We call for strengthening the powers of the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh assembly to allow them to intervene decisively in the economy. The House of Commons should be able to reconstitute itself as an English Parliament where English-only measures are considered. Directly-elected regional government in England should proceed where there is clear demand. The distinctive cultural and social characteristics of Cornwall should be expressed through a directly elected Cornish Assembly. We cannot abandon national identity to the right wing. We must fight to make socialist patriotism central to national identity.
3️⃣0️⃣ Reasons why you should join the Communists 📝🔴 Reason #️⃣1️⃣3️⃣ For working class history and culture 🎼📚⚽️ The role and lives of working people throughout history have been marginalised and ignored. The history we learn in school is the history of ‘great men’. Textbooks don’t talk about the heroic role of Britain’s working class in winning the great antifascist struggle of WWII, focusing on bourgeois politicians instead. When the BBC was first established it was, and would remain for decades, exclusively staffed by Etonian accents. The culture made available through mass media has always fit the ideology and political objectives of Britain’s ruling class. Communists know that the ‘culture’ broadcast by corporate monopoly media is another tool by which the ruling class attempt to control and exploit Britain’s working class. The YCL believes in celebrating and developing the centuries old culture of Britain’s working people and the generations that have made Britain their home. Our songs, stories, sports, traditions and celebrations, passed from generation to generation, are a product of our class, a class that continues to struggle today to assert itself in the face of exploitative and oppressive capitalism. We stand on the shoulders of giants. The history of our class, the struggles, the victories and the defeats must be cherished, honoured and shared. Their struggles are our struggles, their lives and passions are our own, and we fight today to build the society that they yearned for. We pay tribute to their sacrifices, to build a world fit for our heroes, the working class. We believe it is necessary to re-examine and constantly assert the unique history and culture of our class and the respective nations and regions of Britain. If you’re working class and proud, join the YCL! Honour the dead! Fight for the living! ➡️➡️➡️ www.ycl.org.uk/support/join/
3️⃣0️⃣ Reasons why you should join the Communists 📝🔴 Reason #️⃣1️⃣2️⃣ For an education system that works 🤓📚 Every level of Britain’s education system is in crisis. Another generation of young workers and students are being thrown on the scrapheap. Our nurseries and primary schools are understaffed and underfunded. Britain’s youth are being failed in their earliest and most important years. High schools across the country are in an equally dismal state. Only 5% of children who receive free school meals go on to further or higher education. Budgets for further education colleges have been slashed with course numbers declining in many areas. Apprenticeship numbers are also in decline with apprentices being paid a £3.90 per hour poverty wage. 135,000 in England alone aren’t even being paid that. Since the introduction of tuition fees in 1998 university education has no longer been a right but a privilege. Tuition fees are now over £9,000 a year. This has been accompanied by cuts and restrictions on bursaries, grants and state funding. The average student completing a 3 year degree will leave university with around £50,000 of debt. While tuition is still free in Scotland, this has been at the expense of hundreds of thousands of college places, a stepping stone for working class young people to further education or skilled work. Who is to blame for this? Capitalism, the Tory government, austerity and privatisation. For them education is not a right or a virtue, but a commodity. Students are simply customers. We call for a well funded and publicly owned education system. We call for the abolition of private and religious schools and academies. We believe that everyone has the right to free and inclusive secular education including nursery care, schools, universities, community colleges and adult education centres. In socialist society lifelong learning of the highest quality is a human right. We can make this a reality in Britain too. For an education system that works for workers, join the YCL ➡️➡️➡️www.ycl.org.uk/support/join
3️⃣0️⃣Reasons why you should join the Communists 📝🔴 Reason 1️⃣1️⃣ Rebuilding the trade union movement 🧑🏿‍🤝‍🧑🏻 Class struggle dominates our society. As communists, our task is a simple one, to patiently explain that our society, from top to bottom, is geared toward’s making profits, that profit comes from oppressing workers - making them work longer for less - and that Capitalism utterly depends on this. Our society is dominated by consumerism, individualism and selfishness. To be working class, means to have to sell your labour power each day in order to live. The YCL believe the left have lost sight of the industrial struggle, and that this has allowed apathy, low class consciousness and low trade union membership to creep under our noses. The YCL believes we must take part in the rebuilding of the industrial struggle in our workplaces; link it to the wider movement, to struggles in the community over tenants and housing rights, over climate change, over the resulting mass unemployment that the fourth industrial revolution is currently preparing, and over the democratic deficit. We as workers should and must unite in their trade unions to fight against exploitation; only by fighting the bosses collectively can we protect our rights and future at work. For power in the workplace! Join the YCL today! ➡️➡️➡️ www.ycl.org.uk/support/join/
3️⃣0️⃣Reasons why you should join the Communists 📝🔴 Reason 1️⃣0️⃣ Put an end to Austerity 💷✂️🚫 In 2010, the disastrous coalition government began to implement an economic austerity program that has since ravaged our economy and public services alike. The Conservatives and Lib Dems slashed away at our National Health Service, our education sector and our social welfare system in an attempt to cover up the damage caused by capitalism. This hit the working class hardest. The working class struggled to get access to healthcare, education and welfare, all whilst the elite or in other words, the very same people that implemented this harsh program remained untouched and unscathed by their austerity. The YCL utterly rejects austerity overall and it is important to understand that the Great Recession, which was supposedly required austerity to resolve, was not caused by the workers but occurred as a direct result of the shortcomings of capitalism. In a socialist society, free from exploitation, this would never occur as the so-called "market forces" that ravaged the global economy would not hold the power they do now. The Conservatives and Lib Dems punished the working class for their own system's downfall. The Conservatives claim that austerity is over, but the YCL, along with the wider working class community, understand that this is far from the case. To this day, the NHS is being privatised, sold to the highest bidder, welfare budgets have been slashed, education is becoming less accessible. The YCL stands in unity with working class communities to call for an immediate end to austerity. Britain's Communists also call for an increase in public spending, an immediate reversal on NHS privatisation, and more accessible education. Join the YCL today! ➡️➡️➡️ www.ycl.org.uk/support/join/ #YCL #WFDY #JointheYCL #communists #jointhecommunists #austerity
3️⃣0️⃣Reasons why you should join the Communists 📝🔴 Reason 9️⃣ For Disabled Rights Not Charity ♿ Disabled people have a particularly strained relationship with capitalism. It is a system built for mass production, tirelessly and eternal, all for the name of profit. This has led disabled people to be further alienated from the working process and being ostracised from society in various forms. The austerity measures introduced since 2010, have particularly targeted disabled people. One in five disabled people live below the breadline. Thousands have died as a result of losing state support. 50% unemployment, at best. Many suggest they have the answer to help disabled people; empowering disabled people, being aware of the problems. They sound positive, but never address the core issues. Disabled people want rights not charity. We must fight to be treated equally to non-disabled people. However, under capitalism this can never happen. Under capitalism we will eternally be dancing between leeches and skivers sucking off people’s taxes and avoid work, and just pretending to be disabled. As communists we know the answer is fighting for socialism. Capitalism only cares about your ability to make profit. Communism cares about your humanity. For Peace. For Socialism. For Everyone. Join the YCL today! ➡️➡️➡️ www.ycl.org.uk/support/join/
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