YCL Wales: building the movement
Comrades of the growing Young Communist League Wales highlight the importance of education in building the YCL and the need to combine theory and practice.
‘A nation that occupies other nations cannot be free’: Young Communist League of Israel
The Communist Youth of Turkey interviewed with the Young Communist League of Israel via SoLInternational on the anniversary of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories in 1967.
The Communist Youth League of Israel say, ‘We – Jews and Arabs will continue on our path of struggle for socialism and just peace. No government and no state can prevent an entire people and nation from existing.’
The Scottish Government is complicit in the Coronavirus tragedy
Michael Quinn points out that, contrary to much mainstream media coverage, Sturgeon’s SNP government has followed the lead of Johnson’s Tories in responding to the pandemic – and have failed just as miserably.
Poetry Corner: Our March by Vladimir Mayakovsky
Our March by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1917.
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and came to be one of the most celebrated communist poets in the Soviet Union and internationally. He was also a talented playwright, artist and actor who used art as a medium to convey the politics and ideals of the new socialist state.
Looking back on Oliver Law
David Horsley remembers the life and contribution of African American Communist and International Brigader, Oliver Law.
Indian communist youth blaze a trail with COVID-19 initiatives rooted in solidarity
The initiatives of the Kerala unit of the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI), youth of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), have received widespread commendation for their comprehensive and scientific approach towards social solidarity, writes Muhammed Shabeer.
The Colombian Connection: US imperialism & Venezuela
Oliver Dodd reveals the intimate involvement of Colombia in US attacks on Venezuela and its role as a key platform for US imperialism in Latin America.
Book@Bedtime: The Siege of Krishnapur (1973) by J. G. Farrell
Julian Jones reviews J.G. Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur (1973), the second outing in a loosely connected trilogy of novels set among the breakdown of British colonial rule.
Russia: The Epidemic of Capitalism
Roman Kononenko, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Leninist Komsomol of the Russian Federation, explains the political situation in Russia during the COVID-19 Pandemic and the priorities of Russia’s communists.
Young Communists in the West of England
As secretary of the West of England branch, in the year preceding the YCL’s centenary, it feels timely to reflect on the experiences of participating within the League as a member of a newly founded branch. The other members of West of England YCL and I found out about each other through our branch and […]
