New YCL Merseyside Branch founded
Saturday (11 June 2020) saw the foundation of a new YCL branch in Merseyside in another important step for the organisation in the North West of England.
Poetry Corner: ‘Du Ydwyf, ond Prydferth’/‘Black am I, but Beautiful’ by TE Nicholas/’Niclas y Glais’
‘Du Ydwyf, ond Prydferth’ (Negro a fu’n cydweithio â ni am wythnos yn y carchar) ‘Niclas y Glais’ (1879-1971)
‘Black am I, but Beautiful’ (A Negro who worked with us in prison for a week) by TE Nicholas (1879-1971).
TE Nicholas ‘Niclas y Glais’, congregational minister, pacifist, champion of the disadvantaged, initially a member of the Independent Labour Party and then a founder member of the Communist Party, remaining in it till his death. Niclas was an internationalist who loved the Welsh language and the culture of the Welsh people. Writing almost entirely in Welsh, he won 17 eisteddfod chairs. In July 1940, during the Second World War, he and his son Islwyn were arrested on trumped-up charges of fascism during his 4-month imprisonment in Brixton, he wrote 150 sonnets, from which the following are selected. aWe present here the original Welsh and the English translation of his work side by side; the latter of course cannot capture the full expression of the former.
YCL: Summer Budget “less than a drop in the ocean compared to what is really needed”
The Executive Committee of the Young Communist League last night (8 July 2020) released a statement in response to the Government’s Summer Budget.
“If Da Kids Are United”: when Gabbers took a stand against fascism within the scene
Tomasz Nowak retells the fight against far-right infiltration in the Gabber scene and highlights the power of music to bring young people together with an anti-fascist message.
Is China holding millions of Uighurs in concentration camps?
The Communist Party’s International Commission has issued a July 2020 briefing on the claims that China is oppressing and attacking the human rights of the Uighur population in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region.
The US buy up of Remdesivir is emblematic of capitalism’s restrictive grip on human progress
The Trump administration’s bulk purchase of the COVID-19 drug illustrates the stranglehold of monopolies on capitalist governments and global development as a whole, writes Michael Quinn.
Online activism during COVID-19
Amy Field makes the case for better use of social media in organising based on her recent success fundraising for the people’s daily, the Morning Star.
The Capitol Hill Occupied Protest: a victim of structurelessness
It wasn’t the presence of guns that doomed the ‘CHOP’ — it was postmodern ideas of horizontalism and intersectionality, writes Adam Jenson.
Centenary Edition of Communist Review available now!
The Communist Party has launched a special edition of the Party’s journal, Communist Review, to mark the 100th Anniversary of the Party’s foundation at the end of the July..
CP Executive Committee: Tories face ‘heavy reckoning’
‘This Tory government will face a heavy reckoning for its disastrous response to the COVID-19 crisis’, Communist Party General Secretary Robert Griffiths told the party’s online Executive Committee meeting at the weekend.
