TUC Young Workers Conference 2014
RMT activist and shop steward, YCL member and former General Secretary George Waterhouse reports back (in a personal capactiy) from the TUC Young Workers Conference 2014. George highlights the political task facing communists within our own unions on key areas such as the EU, nationalisation and even aspects of austerity. George also notes the lack of […]
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 […]
£10,000 Emergency European Election Appeal
The Young Communist League gives every possible support to the No2EU election front of which the Communist Party is a leading member. We strongly support the objective of providing an “Exit Left!” vote in the 22nd of May European Elections. We will be supporting No2EU in campaigning and seek to do everything in our power to ensure […]
Kinder Scout Trespass Commemoration – Sponsored Fundraiser
On 27 April, the North West Morning Star Readers and Supporters Group is organising a fundraising commemorative walk to the Kinder Pass, scene of the famous and path-breaking mass trespass in 1932. The trespass was an act of willful defiance by the ramblers and was a watershed moment in the struggle for the rights to roam. It was […]
Communists – Home and Abroad Taking on the EU
Britain’s communists will launch an all-out effort to help put the left and progressive case against EU membership over the coming seven weeks. l The Communist Party’s political committee decided on Wednesday evening to make the forthcomingEuropean Parliament election campaign a top priority in tribute to Bob Crow, former RMT general secretary and leader of […]
Teachers Strike 26 March
In the last month, across England and Wales tens of thousands of teachers held public meetings, leafletted local shopping centres, lobbied their local MP or AM in support of the campaign Stand Up For Education. On 26 March many thousands took strike action and marched. In Manchester, Bristol, Newcastle, Birmingham, Cardiff and London, thousands took […]
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 […]
YCL Scotland Spring Day School 2014
l The Young Communist League Scotland is pleased to advertise it’s Spring 2014 Day School! The day has an array of speakers on a variety of subjects and building on the success of the Autumn 2013 day school promises to be an excellent event.
Croydon Communists: ‘Build houses!’
Croydon communists — expose the failure of capitalism to resolve chronic housing shortage and call for a radical plan of rebuilding and regeneration. You can read the pamphlet here.
Communists in East England: Demand ‘Health for the people’!
Communists in the East of England are demanding an end to government plans for the break-up and privatisation of Britain’s health services in the area. In a searing criticism, well-known local health campaigner Steve Sweeney has written a pamphlet which demonstrates how government plans will lead to the dismantling of the NHS. You can download […]
