A week in Wuhan
This summer I was honoured to represent the YCL at the 2026 World Youth Development Forum, held in Wuhan, China. Despite lasting only a week, I experienced and learnt more than many get to in a whole year, from my first experiences of Chinese culture and development to hearing the experiences of youth all over […]
Bob Cooney – Communist Leader, International Brigadier and Proletarian Poet
91 years ago today, Aberdeen’s Communists, Socialists and trade unionists won what has since come to be known as ‘The Battle of The Music Hall’. Ahead of a planned meeting of the British Union of Fascists headlined by national policy director A. Raven Thomson, Aberdeen’s united front ‘requisitioned’ over 360 tickets from less than security […]
Why a Harry Pollitt School?
This October marks the fourth Harry Pollitt School: the Marxist Leninist weekend school organised by the YCL. The school has become a key event in a young communist’s calendar, and a project which all comrades should be proud of, whether attending, organising, or speaking at. Four years on from the event’s founding, at a time […]
YCL Central Committee Report: September 2026
[First delivered by Siddharth Pandey at the September 2026 meeting of the YCL Central Committee meeting, 12th-13th September] Since the last time this committee met, a new Prime Minister has been imposed on the British (and Northern Irish) populace. In a desperate bid to rescue legitimacy the Labour Party has had to shuttle someone untainted […]
Statement on settler violence
Young Communist League Statement On the Terrorist Settler Violence in the Occupied West Bank and the Foreign Minister’s Announced Measure We Will Not Accept Words in The Face of Ethnic Cleansing The Young Communist League, in solidarity with the Palestinian Democratic Youth Union, our fraternal youth organisations and the Palestinian people, unequivocally condemn the fascistic […]
Book Review – Fidel Castro: Beyond the legend
“The authors really got behind the icon and legend that Fidel was, in contrast to the Western caricatures of Fidel and wrote about Fidel the man, the revolutionary and above all a man of immense principle.”
This Hiroshima Peace Day, take up the struggle for peace
“A nuclear free world begins with the youth. A world freed from imperialist wars and pointless death. We
are the future, and to better shape that future our generation must reckon with the past.”
Losurdo, Lenin, and the critique of economism
“The task of communists is to help develop the working-class movement to see that the fight is not only for better conditions within capitalism, but for a completely different society and economic system”
The Cockroach Janta Party: From Satire to Revolt – India’s Youth Rise Against a Broken System
“Although the immediate trigger is examination reform, the movement represents something larger. For many young Indians, the issue is not only about one test or one ministry. It is about trust.”
The Defence Universities Alliance and the future of British Imperialism.
Jobs in military industries only perpetuate the system of world imperialism, that same system which is criminalising our meagre protest in this country, that same system conducting the genocide in Palestine, the destruction of Iran, the war in Ukraine and many other terrible conflicts the world over.
