Tag: Young Communist League Britain

YCL North-West Remember the International Brigades

Sunday 09/02/2013 saw  YCL North-West  members  attending, along with members of the Communist Party,  the International Brigade Memorial Trust’s (IBMT) re-dedication of the plaque in Manchester Town Hall commemorating those who volunteered to fight Franco’s Fascism in Spain. Only a day after its reformation in the North-West, the YCL placed a wreath alongside that of […]

YCL Activity Rekindled in the North-West

This weekend saw the first meeting of the YCL in the north-west successfully rekindling the revolutionary flame across the beleaguered heartlands of the industrial revolution. At the meeting in Liverpool the district decided upon its course of action; to grow and strengthen the movement by the combined activities of recruitment and education. Comrades also enjoyed […]

No2EU: Yes to workers’ rights Gears Up for May European Elections

The No2EU campaign, which the Communist Party is a member of and which the YCL supports, is gearing up for the EU elections this coming May. It has published a a useful short pamphlet summarising its arguments with an introduction by RMT general secretary Bob Crow He writes that  25 years after then European Commission president Jacques […]

Communist Party Executive Committee Report: ‘Tories boost profits and poverty’

Speaking at the Communist Party executive committee at the weekend, vice chair Liz Payne accused the Tories of representing the interests of ever fewer big business corporations. She said they were the ‘bought and paid for creatures’ of the City of London’s financial institutions which control key enterprises and sectors of the British economy. ‘Chancellor Osborne […]

Student Protests at Birmingham University

The YCL expresses solidarity and support to those students in Birmingham & putting themselves at the forefront of the struggle against the cuts & attempts at ever increasing privatisation of our education system. The YCL condemns the deep impact which this government’s ideologically motivated austerity is having upon our education system particularly university, college and […]

Support the Women’s Assembly Against Austerity!

Anita Wright, Secretary of the National Assembly of Women and Communist Party Executive Committee, member calls for women to attend the Women’s Assembly Against Austerity in this article from the Morning Star. The YCL welcomes this initiative as ruling class austerity is hitting women, and even more especially young women, particularly hard. Cuts in legal […]

Communist Party in the East: Successful Political Day School and Congress

Communists and supporters in the east of England held a political day school and district congress in Cambridge on Saturday 25 January. First reported on CP website. The Political day school, attended by party activists and supporters from Norwich, Bury St Edmunds, Wymondham, Essex, Cambridge, Ipswich, Hadleigh, St Neots and Ely, was divided in to […]

Communist Party Of Ukraine: How to Save Ukraine from Civil War

The following statement is from the Press Office of the Communist Party of Ukraine. The YCL expresses our solidarity with the Communist Party of the Ukraine and the Ukrainian  people. We oppose the meddling of the EU and the USA in the domestic affairs of a sovereign nation. Please see the original statement here. The […]