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 […]

YCL Statement on VE Day

The Executive Committee of the Young Communist League has released the following statement to mark the 75th Anniversary of Victory over Fascism in Europe. 

Common Announcement of Communist Youth Organisations on the COVID-19 Pandemic

Young people of the world, While thousands of people around the globe are getting the disease and unfortunately also die of COVID-19, the reality for the peoples, workers and youth is ruthless: The public health system even of some powerful capitalist countries is naked, full of deficiencies, with policies that act in favour of the […]

Communist Party of Britain statement on the COVID-19 crisis

Decades of capitalist globalisation and neoliberal economic policies have left Britain and many other countries in a far worse condition to meet the challenge of a pandemic such as the Covid-19 crisis. In particular, the failure to rectify the deep structural problems of an economy dominated by the banks and their financial markets means that […]

YCL Statement: Support the university walk outs!

The Young Communist League expresses its full support with today’s (20 February 2020) strike action called by the University and College Union (UCU) which begins a 14 day walkout between 20 February and 13 March 2020 at 74 universities across Britain.

Statement on UCU Strike Action

The Young Communist League fully supports today’s announcement by the University and College Union (UCU) regarding upcoming strike action, beginning on 25 November. We not only recognise that this action has become necessary, we commend the UCU for taking the decision to strike in both of their disputes over changes to the Universities Superannuation Scheme […]