New Women’s Assembly called for 14th of February
The run-up to the general election will be crunch time for the Women’s Assembly Against Austerity, writes Anita Wright in the Morning Star
WW1 – Opposing Imperialist Wars: Then & Now
A Young Communist League Scotland film, featuring Johnnie Hunter (YCL Scottish Organiser) & Dr Alan MacKinnon (Chair of Scottish CND). With the British Establishments attempts to turn 2014 into a celebration of the start of WW1 & portray the Great War as a noble & unavoidable conflict fought to preserve “freedom”, obvious parallels begin to […]
The Scourge of Second Homes in the South West
YCL Executive Committee and Communist Party Cornwall Branch member Owain examines second home ownership in Cornwall . Cornwall and the South West region of England has a particular problem when it comes to second home owners. The region is a popular holiday destination for tourists and people seeking to move here and whilst there is nothing […]
Electoral Gains for Japanese Communists
Japanese communists almost tripled their seats in the country’s general election on Sunday (14/12/14), which saw right-wing premier Shinzo Abe comfortably retain his overall majority. Article by Kenny Coyle, Communist Party Member and columnist on Asian politics. This article first appeared in the Morning Star 18/12/14
Communists welcome release of remaining Cuban political prisoners held in USA
The Communist Party of Britain and the Young Communist League welcome the release of the three remaining Miami Five prisoners unjustly held by the United States for the past sixteen years
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 General Secretary Zoe Hennessy’s Speech to the Communist Party’s 53rd Congress
YCL General Secretary Zoe Hennessy warned CP delegates at the 53 Congress of the challenges facing young workers, students and the unemployed; and spoke about the priorities for Britain’s Communist movement
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
Remember the Fallen
Bernadette Wang reminds us what Remembrance Sunday should actually be about, this article was first featured in the most recent edition of Challenge. Come this Remembrance Sunday on 9th November, David Cameron, his government and indeed the entire British Establishment will seek to whip up sentiments of jingoism and false patriotism
