YCL Statement on July 10 National Strike
The Young Communist League sends solidarity to the two million workers taking strike action on July 10 after rejecting the government’s insulting 1 per cent pay offer.
Communist Party General Secretary Call to Build the People’s Assembly
The Communist Party General Secretary Robert Griffths issues a rallying call to build the people’s assembly to defeat austerity and reverse the ruling class offensive. Britain is becoming one of the most unequal countries in the developed world. Multimillionaires flourish as grinning government ministers cut the ribbon to open yet another foodbank.
UKIP: Smoke And Mirrors
Communist Party General Secretary Robert Griffths analyses the forces at work behind the growth of the Ukip ‘phenomenon’. The extensive media coverage of last week’s EU and local elections contrasts starkly with the lack of popular interest
Communist Party Scottish Secretary on Scotland’s Choice
Tommy Morrison, Scottish Secretary of the Communist Party outlines the choices facing workers in the independence referendum which takes place on 18th September 2014. Currently the polls are very close. If there is a Yes vote, Scotland will separate in less than two years time, March 2016. At this point Scottish MPs will leave Westminster. […]
UKIP Exposed: No Friend of the Workers!
In a searing editorial, Britain’s socialist daily, the Morning Star exposes UKIP – but takes the left to task for complacency too. Ukip is just as much a part of the neoliberal Establishment as the Tories or the EU. Progressives are rightly appalled by the incendiary anti-immigrant message being plastered on billboards across Britain by the […]
Lifeworks Occupation: Health Trust Cuts Delayed by Brave Action
Plans to slash NHS mental health services in Cambridge to meet government-imposed budget cuts have been met with defiant resistance – Steve Sweeney who has helped organise solidarity, writes. An occupation of part of the Tenison Road building which hosts the Lifeworks service is approaching its sixth week
Workers’ Memorial Day 28th April 2014
International Workers’ Memorial Day is on the 28th of April 2014 and with the ongoing ConDem offensive against health and safety it is especially important we rally on the 28th to highlight this fact and galvanise the resistance. Memorials will be taking place the length and breadth of the country so make sure you attend your […]
Caution: Corrosive ConDem Government Hazardous to Health!
YCL North-West Organiser Owain Holland reports on the ongoing Con-Dem offensive on health and safety in the workplace and need for a fightback in the run up to 28th of April, International Workers’ Memorial Day. Not content with cutting funding towards health and safety the Tory-led government intends to privatise the Health & Safety Executive (HSE). […]
Scotland On The Breadline
In this article Young Communist League General Secretary Zoe Hennessy examines the devastating impact of the austerity agenda in Scotland. This article first appeared in the Morning Star 01/04/2014. During the last three decades neoliberalism has triumphed across Scotland and the rest of Britain. Our trade unions have been repeatedly undermined and humiliated by anti-union legislation and workers […]
CP General Secretary on the Budget and the Peoples Alternative
Chancellor Osborne’s budget on Wednesday confirmed that the ruthless Tory-LibDem assault on the poor, the low paid, the unemployed, the sick and the disabled not only continues but will escalate. There will be no reversal of the austerity drive against public services, welfare benefits and the employment terms and conditions of public sector workers. l […]
