YCL General Secretary’s Address to the 47th Congress

The speech reproduced here was delivered by YCL General Secretary Zoe Hennessy on 13th of December at the Marx Memorial Library to open the YCL’s 47th Congress. Welcome to the 47th congress of the Young Communist League. We are meeting at a critically important time for the left in Britain

Young Communist League Xmas Appeal 2014!

Comrades, Of the YCL, the CP, supporters of the working class and communist movement, I would like to wish everyone an enjoyable festive period as we come towards the end of 2014. Although we are an organisation guided by dialectical materialism – we appreciate that most people whether of faith or indeed without celebrate during the […]

Communists: “It’s not about the deficit”

‘The coalition government’s strategy aims to increase corporate profits and enrich the rich still further – it is not primarily about the deficit or the National Debt’, Communist Party general secretary Robert Griffiths told the party’s political committee on Wednesday evening [03/12/14]

YCL Scotland Winter Day School 2014

The Young Communist League Scotland is pleased to advertise it’s Winter 2014 Day School on Saturday the 6th of December! The day has an array of speakers on a variety of subjects and building on the success of the Spring 2014 day school promises to be an excellent event.

YCL Congress Social

After closing our 47th Congress we will be having a social in the Marx Memorial Library from 6pm onwards. There will be a bar, music, speeches – and (inevitably) lots of political discussion. All are welcome, you don’t need to be a member of the YCL or the Communist Party of Britain or even a “young” […]

53rd Congress of the Communist Party

Communist Party General Secretary Robert Griffths on this weekend’s 53rd Congress of the Communist Party. In their Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848), Marx and Engels wrote that the Communists have no interests separate and apart from those of the working class as a whole

Challenge: Latest Issue

Challenge : September 2014 [September 2014; Volume 21; Issue 36] £1.50 + 75p P&P Challenge is the quarterly journal of the YCL – it regularly contains articles covering all the latest news and views of the YCL, developments international, articles covering important historical developments, culture, different campaigns and struggles taking place in Britain and the rest of the […]

Marx’s Law of Value Has Stood the Test of Time

Alex Gordon, Chair of the Marx Memorial Library, recently gave an introduction to Marx’s classic speech delivered to the International Workingmen’s Association (IWMA) general council setting out the law of value