YCL 51st Congress: a world to win – a world to save!

General Secretary of the Young Communist League, Johnnie Hunter, sets out the vital task of the delegates attending our 51st Congress this weekend.
The YCL’s 51st congress: working class democracy and renewing the communist movement

This weekend the Young Communist League’s 51st congress will meet at Ruskin House, Croydon, the contemporary home of Britain’s resurgent communist movement. The event will welcome over 100 delegates, representing branches, districts and nations from across Britain, to discuss and debate the current position and the future plans of our Party and YCL.
Oppose the new cold war on China

Johnnie Hunter discusses the Western propaganda effort to smear China and how confronting regime narratives is central to opposing the new cold war.
William Gallacher – Reminiscences of Lenin

Willie Gallacher served as a Communist MP for West Fife in Scotland from 1935-1950, and as a member of the Red Clydeside movement, where he played a very important part in the rise of socialism in Britain. Here we republish his writings on his meetings with Lenin, ahead of the formation of the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1920:
What the left gets wrong about national conservatism

After the National Conservatism conference, Ben Ughetti examines the reinvention of conservative politics, and how the left should understand and counter it.
<strong>Scotland needs a movement to fight for peace in 2023</strong>

In light of the increasingly tumultuous state of world affairs, Johnnie Hunter discusses the need for a revived peace movement in Scotland and the rest of Britain.
<strong>Lessons from Actually Existing Socialism: The Soviet Union</strong>

The Soviet Union was the first federal, multinational state with a planned socialist economy. Robin Talbot, Chair of the Young Communist League, explains why communists need to learn from its history…
Towards working class unity on sex and gender

Eben Williams makes the case for a materialist stance on the sex and gender debate
Colombia’s ELN storms military base – necessary context behind the attack

Oliver Dodd writes on why the ELN are still fighting against the Colombian govenment
Communist health: the USSR’s culture of physical fitness and how it compares to the West today

Mateusz Naglik challenges the right-wing narrative that “communists are either obese or malnourished, and that fascists, conservatives, and so on are the ones in shape.”