Fight for safe schools and stand up for young people’s futures

The Young Communist League has issued a statement following the defeat of the Tory Government plans to fully reopen schools in January 2021 despite dangerously unsafe levels of infection from COVID-19 in Britain. The latest debacle over the reopening of schools despite the unsafe levels of COVID-19 infection in Britain is just another example of […]

YCL: Fight back against the unjust A Level and vocational qualification results!

The YCL condemns the latest scandalous Government attack on the rights and living conditions of Britain’s working students and urges the youth to organise from their schools and communities and resist this unjust declaration of results. In this latest fiasco, almost 40% of pupils’ predicted results went down by 1 or 2 grades according to […]

Press in Morning Star: We need an “education revolution” and the end of “privatisation, atomisation and the drive for profit” in education

On 16 August 2020 the statement of the Executive Committee on the unjust A Level and vocational qualification results was quoted in the Morning Star. Tories’ A-Level fiasco takes turn for the worse as Ofqual pulls appeals advice, by Lamiat Sabin The government’s mishandling of A-level results descended further into chaos at the weekend after […]

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.

YCL Solidarity Statement with the University and College Union Strike

The Young Communist League stands in support of striking lecturers and post graduate tutors who begin a period of strike action today, Thursday 22 February 2018. The right to strike is a fundamental right of workers and their trade unions. Strike action is a central weapon in the arsenal of trade unions and often a […]

16 May – YCL Yorkshire Day School

On 16 May the Young Communist League is having its first day school for some time in the Yorkshire region, at Burngreave Vestry Hall, 2 Burngreave Road, Sheffield, S3 9DD.

Teachers Unions Seek United Way Forward for Education

Former YCL General Secretary & CP EC member Gawain Little says next week’s professional unity conference bringing together teacher union activists is vital for the future of education. ; On Febuary 13 the drive to privatise and deregulate our education system suffered a significant setback. This was the day the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB), […]