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23 Oct 2014 Young Communist League of Britain

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3️⃣0️⃣ Reasons why you should join the Communists 📝🔴 Reason 2️⃣1️⃣ Real jobs for young workers 🛠 . Communists have always played a leading role in the struggle not only for workers’ rights, but for better jobs with better pay, a productive industrial strategy that benefits our people, and an end to the anarchy that the capitalist system creates for workers and their livelihoods on a daily basis. .. From the general strike to the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders work-in that saved the jobs of 1000s of employees from Tory abandonment, from teachers to train drivers, organisation made it possible to achieve laws like the Equal Pay Act 1970 and more. . . But since the late 1970s, we have seen the first generation in decades where young people like us see a future of less hope of work, housing, health and education than their parents expected when they were younger. . If today’s young workers and the generations ahead are to prosper then the balance of class forces must be upset, and the defeats of the 1980s and onwards avenged with new, stronger, militant organisation of workers in Britain that fights for a society where jobs are meaningful and the system of production serves our needs and not the other way around. . We need far more good quality mass apprenticeship schemes and other training routes, opportunities to study without crushing debt, jobs that develop our skills and abilities and take us somewhere in life, and time to live outside of work, see friends and family, and live and eat decently. . . That is where the Communists come in. . Join the YCL and join a new generation of young workers who will turn the tide against a Britain where good jobs and a bright future are a right only for the rich. . Join the fight for decent lives for the youth and for the replacement of a rigged system with a system that works for us, with decent work for us: Socialism! ➡️➡️➡️www.ycl.org.uk/support/join

3️⃣0️⃣ Reasons why you should join the Communists 📝🔴 Reason 2️⃣0️⃣ Fight the climate crisis 🌍🌱🚩 In days like these the youth need deeds not words. Today’s climate strikes have been inspirational. 2019 has seen the continuation of some of the most destructive and unpredictable weather and climate events in generations. New temperature records continue to be set. Capitalist industrialisation is warming the planet. This is beyond dispute. The events of this year herald the potential onset of an irrevocable change in the Earth’s climate which could spell the end of humanity. This crisis has been decades in the making and despite years of warnings and irrefutable evidence, capitalism and our ruling class have proven themselves unwilling and unable to solve it. While there is money to be made in burning fossil fuels and while the massive monopolies which profit from it control our political establishment this is unsurprising. We are told that climate change is a problem equally attributable to everyone everywhere regardless of their class. Ignoring the fact that the world’s richest 10% account for 50% of fossil fuel emissions, while the poorest 50% produce just 10%. Just 100 companies have been responsible for more than 70% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions since 1988. Time is running out. In a few decades we may already be too late. The story of the human race might end, almost as soon as it started, here on a planet which has been made uninhabitable by greed. But it doesn’t have to end like this. Britain’s Communists and the socialist countries have offered radical solutions to save our planet, the cradle of humanity. Cuba is ranked world number 1 for sustainable development by the World Wildlife Federation. China is re-orientating itself as the world’s biggest economy towards renewable energy, building two new wind farms every hour along with the biggest solar farms in the world. This crisis was created by capitalist greed but it can be solved by human cooperation. The choice we have to make is socialism or extinction. Join the Communists and fight for an economic system based on human need and sustainability. ➡️➡️➡️www.ycl.org.uk/support/join

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

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