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3️⃣0️⃣ Reasons why you should join the Communists 📝🔴 . Reason #️⃣1️⃣9⃣ BAEM rights .. Despite many successful struggles led by working people against fascism and racism, racism remains a cancer in today’s society, with many of us seeing or experiencing it on a daily basis. The inequality that our diverse peoples face must be quashed. . Black workers and other ethnic minorities face a higher chance of poverty, being unemployed and facing discrimination and oppression at work. The cut to funding of the Equality and Human Rights Commission has been a major blow. We must fight for equal rights, treatment and inclusion of black people, Asians and other nationalities. We must learn and teach our history – a shared history of class struggle by “workers of all lands”, whether English, Scottish, Welsh, Cornish, Irish, Caribbean or Asian, for freedom against the capitalist class and the British Empire. . The bourgeois media would have you believe that the working class is inherently racist. The reality is that workers and Communists have always been at the forefront of the struggle against racism and oppression, all the way back to the Lancashire weavers who refused to work cotton from the slave-driving Southern USA. . Communists have struggled against racism and fascism at every turn, at Cable Street, in the trade union movement, in the Connolly Association for Irish workers in Britain, in the Movement for Colonial Freedom that raised the cry for freedom of the British Empire’s colonies and ex-colonies, alongside their brothers and sisters from India, Africa and elsewhere. . But the battle is not yet won. Since 2011 the Tories have turned immigrants into a scapegoat for the failings of British capitalism. . Shamefully in 2018 in the so-called Windrush scandal thousands of British-Caribbean citizens found themselves being treated as illegal immigrants. . Britain needs a new generation of Communists, socialists and other progressives to rebuild the unity of our working class and smash racism and fascism in this day and age. . . Together, we can and will win. Join the YCL! ➡️➡️➡️www.ycl.org.uk/support/join . #PeaceJobsSocialism #WFDY #BAEM #equality #Windrush #Liberation
3️⃣0️⃣ Reasons why you should join the communists 📝🔴 1️⃣8️⃣ The struggle against imperialism We live in the imperialist stage of capitalism, it’s final stage. Imperialism is the domination and exploitation of weaker capitalist states, colonial and former colonial countries by the major imperialist powers, the US-EU-UK. All of this is done in the service of massive transnational companies - Unilever, Shell and BP to name a few. NATO, and their puppets in the EU act on their behalf in the interest of multinational capitalism. Britain’s ruling class has a shameful legacy, dominating the biggest empire in history. Killing millions, oppressing and exploiting a quarter of the planet and engineering famine in Ireland and Bengal are just some of its crimes. British imperialism continues today - the partition of Ireland, bases spread across the planet, bombings and invasions. Today the USA is the world’s foremost imperialist power. It’s bloody history is well known in Korea and Vietnam. It’s reckless aggression has cut a bloody swathe across the Middle East in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria. Today Venezuela is in the crosshairs. Since the destruction of the Soviet Union the USA has become increasingly erratic. Trump is merely a symptom, not the cause. People’s China has been its only real restraint, and a true force for peace. Britain’s communists have a proud history resisting imperialism. We uphold the rights of sovereignty and self determination of all peoples. Globally communists have always led the anti-imperialist struggle. If you believe in resisting imperialism and solidarity with the oppressed peoples of the world - join the YCL! ➡️➡️➡️ www.ycl.org.uk/support/join
3️⃣0️⃣ Reasons why you should join the Communists 📝🔴 Reason #️⃣1️⃣7️⃣ Solidarity with socialist countries 🤝🚩🌏 Communism is the only truly global political movement in human history. Britain’s communists have always believed that solidarity with countries already on the socialist path is one of our key tasks. British schools and the capitalist media would have us believe that socialism ended in the 1990’s, before we were born, with the counterrevolutions in Eastern Europe. This couldn’t be further from the truth. The reality is that hundreds of millions of people across the world live in socialist countries today including Cuba, China and Vietnam. Millions more are members of communist and workers’ parties fighting to win socialism in their own countries. Socialist Cuba stands a democratic and humanitarian beacon to the world. Despite the illegal US blockade Cuba has delivered stunning gains for its people – full employment, free healthcare, public housing, free education and rights for women and minorities. Cuba’s parliamentary system far more democratic than Britain’s. People’s China, in an incredibly short period, has delivered hitherto unimaginable economic development – lifting 600 million people out of poverty. China stands as the only real bulwark against the reckless aggression of US imperialism. Vietnam was forced to endured one of the brutal wars in human history to win its independence. Despite this, today it is a regional powerhouse delivering gains for working people, advancing the rights of women, minorities and protecting the environment. The YCL works to build a better understanding of these countries among Britain’s workers and enduring friendship through our own links and through broad solidarity campaigns here in Britain. The socialist camp is on the march again and growing in strength. We’re fighting to make Britain a member. Building solidarity and opposing US-UK-EU imperialist attacks are a key part of this. If you want to build solidarity with the world’s socialist countries – join the YCL today! ➡️➡️➡️www.ycl.org.uk/support/join #YCL #WFDY #Solidarity #Socialism
3️⃣0️⃣ Reasons why you should join the Communists 📝🔴 Reason #️⃣1️⃣6️⃣ For a peace and nuclear disarmament 🕊🌍☮️ War is a natural result of the capitalist system. Even today humankind stands at constant threat of nuclear annihilation, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The ruling classes and transnational companies of the most powerful countries, the USA, EU and Britain are ever ready to use war, invasion and bombings to open up markets, seize resources and ensure compliant regimes and governments. War itself is lucrative business under capitalism. The USA paid private companies billions of dollars in the destruction and occupation of Iraq. Progress in Korean peace talks in April 2018 saw the five biggest US defence contractors lose $10.2 billion in their stock value in a single day. While the EU was enforcing harsh austerity across Europe, one of the only protected budget areas was military expenditure. Poverty stricken Greece was compelled to spend billions on French fighter jets. The EU itself is becoming increasing militarised with plans for an EU army as part of NATO well underway. NATO, the nuclear first strike alliance, remains the greatest threat to world peace. The bombing of Yugoslavia, the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan and the suffering in the Middle East today show that far from guaranteeing peace in Europe or the world, NATO is a tool of US-UK-EU imperialism. This isn’t even to mention the existential threat posed by nuclear war. Deliberately or by accident, the human race could be wiped out in minutes. Communists have always been at the forefront of the struggle for peace and nuclear disarmament in Britain. It’s at the heart of our programme, Britain’s Road to Socialism, and we wholeheartedly support the CND Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. The socialist countries have always acted to restrain the reckless aggression of imperialism and preserve peace. Only by ending capitalism can we end the scourge of war. If you want peace in our lifetime – join the YCL! ➡️➡️➡️www.ycl.org.uk/support/join
3️⃣0️⃣ Reasons why you should join the Communists 📝🔴 Reason #️⃣1️⃣5️⃣ For a Socialist Student Movement The rise of individualism and neoliberalism has resulted in a near collapse of our once proud student movement in Britain. The Tory Party’s current program of austerity has further pushed the commercialisation and privatisation of the education sector as a whole. They are able to get away with this is in part due to the weakness in our trade union and student movements alike. We must look to our allies across Europe for inspiration at what a militant and explicitly socialist student movement can achieve. The student politics of Lisbon and Athens are a world away from the identity-politics and Blairite ridden campus politics found in Britain. A socialist student movement in Britain is capable of recapturing the democratic institutions and progressive spirit of young people. Campus politics cannot be left to liberalism. The Communist Party has a proud history of organising students and the YCL are determined to rekindle this struggle. Our universities, schools and colleges are filled with some of the brightest minds of our generation. We have to ensure their place in our movement. The YCL believes that a socialist student movement is key to rekindling the class consciousness of the millions of young people across Britain. Look out for us organising around freshers week in the coming week and get involved. Join the YCL and build a socialist student movement. ➡️➡️➡️www.ycl.org.uk/support/join
3️⃣0️⃣ Reasons why you should join the Communists 📝🔴 Reason #️⃣1️⃣4️⃣ For a democratic and federal Britain 🏴🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Britain is a deeply undemocratic and fractured country. Capitalism is the oppression and exploitation of the working class by the ruling class. All the institutions of the British state are geared to protect the capitalist system. The development of the British state has led an unequal relationship between the nations of Britain. True democracy, national sovereignty and self determination can only be achieved under socialism. But we can and must fight to defend and advance our democratic and national rights now, in the struggle to achieve socialism. The YCL calls for the abolition of the monarchy and the House of Lords. These unelected hangovers from centuries gone past have no place in modern Britain. We demand the 2016 Brexit vote, the biggest democratic manifestation in British history, is respected and Britain makes a clean break with the European Union. The EU is an anti democratic, neoliberal bloc designed only to serve big business. All the nations of Britain – Wales, Scotland, England and Cornwall have the right of self determination. Our working classes share a proud history of joint struggle resisting capitalism and fighting for progressive change. We fight for a new progressive federal structure, as the most effective way of advancing the democratic powers of the peoples of Britain while also achieving a radical redistribution of wealth to the regions and nations of the country. We call for strengthening the powers of the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh assembly to allow them to intervene decisively in the economy. The House of Commons should be able to reconstitute itself as an English Parliament where English-only measures are considered. Directly-elected regional government in England should proceed where there is clear demand. The distinctive cultural and social characteristics of Cornwall should be expressed through a directly elected Cornish Assembly. We cannot abandon national identity to the right wing. We must fight to make socialist patriotism central to national identity.
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