YCL Statement on solidarity with the people of Afghanistan

Protest sign in Berlin

The Young Communist League of Britain expresses our solidarity with the people of Afghanistan after the takeover of Kabul by the Taliban this last week. We also lament the terrible humanitarian situation in the country and call upon the British Government and other nations to render aid to the people of Afghanistan on the basis […]

YCL calls for action ahead of climate summit

The Young Communist League welcomes the sixth report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, published on 7th August. The report reaffirms our understanding that human activity is very likely to have caused an increase in extreme weather events since at least the 1950s. Globally we now witness a higher frequency of droughts and floods; […]

YCL condemns authoritarian Policing Bill and calls for resistance

The Young Communist League has issued a statement attacking the Tory Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill and calling for broad resistance to this authoritarian attack on our civil liberties. The YCL condemns the initial passing of the Conservative Government’s Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill in the strongest possible terms. The scenes of outrage […]

YCL condemns Tory hypocrisy over “free-speech” legislation

The Executive Committee of the Young Communist League has issued a statement on the Tories latest plans to appoint “free speech champions” The YCL condemns the latest hypocrisy from the Tory Government as part of their ongoing fight for “so-called” free speech. Gavin Williamson, Education Secretary, has said universities will appoint “free speech champions”, while […]

YCL Statement on UNICEF working in Britain

The Young Communist League has issued a statement on the news that for the first time in history, UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, have been forced to intervene to help feed hungry children in Britain this winter. The fact that for the first time in its 74 year history UNICEF, the United Nations agency […]

Youth in Survival Against Pandemic and Capitalism: SOCIALISM OR BARBARISM

20 European Communist Youth Organizations have gathered on the 103rd anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution at the “Online Meeting of European Communist Youth Organizations to Share Experiences” and exchanged their experiences about the struggle of the youth during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, working people all around the world […]

YCL: The YCL celebrates the defeat of Donald Trump but warns against triumphalism

The YCL celebrates the defeat of Donald Trump but warns – the struggle is just beginning for working people in the USA and those around the world battling US imperialism. The US presidential election has finally concluded, Joe Biden, has become the President-Elect of the USA, and Trump’s pre-emptive declaration of victory is null and […]

YCL Statement on the Summer Budget

The Executive Committee of the Young Communist League has released the following statement in response to the Governments Summer Budget.

Common Announcement in Solidarity with the youth and the people of the USA

Common Announcement the Communist, Progressive and Anti-imperialist Youth organisations of the world The Communist, progressive and Anti-imperialist Youth Organisations, that sign this common announcement, we condemn the most recent criminal acts in the USA,  the brutal murder of  Afro-American George Floyd, by the police, and the violent repression and attempted criminalisation of  the struggles against […]