The State of Women’s Liberation in 2014
As part of the build up to International Women’s Day celebrations on Saturday (08/03/2014) Emily Weir from YCL Edinburgh gives a sober reflection on the progress of the movement for women’s liberation and the importance of International Women’s Day in 2014. She puts paid to the idea that women have achieved equality in our era – or […]
Coordinating Committee of Communist Parties in Britain: International Women’s Day Celebration
The YCL strongly encourages comrades in London to attend this celebration. An evening of entertainment, culture and politics to celebrate International Women’s Day, convened by CPs with members domiciled in Britain and hosted annually by the Coordinating Committee of Communist Parties in Britain. 18.30 – 20.45 Saturday the 8th of March at the Marx Library, in […]
Solidarity with the Communist Party of Ukraine
Robert Griffiths Communist Party General Secretary in Britain has written to the Ukrainian Communists to express solidarity and support. You can read the letter in full here: l SOLIDARITY WITH THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF UKRAINE The Communist Party of Britain expresses its solidarity with the Communist Party of Ukraine in its struggle to defend the […]
Trade Union & Political Cadre School 8th & 9th March
The Communist Party Trade Union Coordinating Committee is convening a trade union and political cadre school for members and supporters meeting at Marx Library, in London, over the weekend of the 8/9 March. The YCL welcomes this event and it’s aims and would strongly encourage YCL members who are also active in the CP to […]
Ukraine: Alarm Bells Ring Out Across Europe as Fascism Rears it’s Ugly Head
The issues behind the protests that have brought Ukraine to the brink of civil war remain, writes John Foster CP International Secretary in the Morning Star. Alongside long-standing divisions in the country itself it has become a battleground for outside powers. “Ceding Ukraine to Moscow could turn into a broader undermining of Western credibility,” an […]
Communist Party Political Committee Report 20/02/2014
The decision of the Labour Party’s national executive committee to endorse the Collins report on trade union affiliation will ‘further deepen the crisis of working class political representation’, Bill Greenshields told the Communist Party political committee on Thursday (February 20). ] Most affiliated unions support the Collins proposals which will end their collective voice in […]
YCL Paisley – “The Case for Communism”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EbLxOAREsU Video of YCL Scotland Organiser Johnnie Hunter speaking at a YCL public meeting in Paisley on the 6th of February making the case for communism. YCL Scotland The Scottish Organiser describes how the YCL seek a revolutionary transformation of society. Britain’s communists want an end to poverty, an end to exploitation, an end to […]
International Seminar : Against the Threat of War and for World Peace
Invitation to International Seminar : Against the threat of war and for world peace
YCL North-West Remember the International Brigades
Sunday 09/02/2013 saw YCL North-West members attending, along with members of the Communist Party, the International Brigade Memorial Trust’s (IBMT) re-dedication of the plaque in Manchester Town Hall commemorating those who volunteered to fight Franco’s Fascism in Spain. Only a day after its reformation in the North-West, the YCL placed a wreath alongside that of […]
YCL Activity Rekindled in the North-West
This weekend saw the first meeting of the YCL in the north-west successfully rekindling the revolutionary flame across the beleaguered heartlands of the industrial revolution. At the meeting in Liverpool the district decided upon its course of action; to grow and strengthen the movement by the combined activities of recruitment and education. Comrades also enjoyed […]