Working-class women: Mona
This article is the first in a series on working-class women, highlighting the work and organising women across the world perform to alleviate hardships on their communities. This instalment features Mona, who works in her spare time distributing food to the poorest people of Ohio, USA. Mona explains the concept of food deserts, how they are not a problem of scarcity and poverty, but in fact manufactured by the US’ post-industrial city designs, which left some communities with inadequate food access
Time for action: the cost of profits crisis and rising industrial militancy
“This ruling class offensive demands a working class counter attack, more determined, coordinated and effective than our generation has ever known”, writes YCL General Secretary Johnnie Hunter
Scottish trade unionists in Ukraine, 1951
Nathan Hennebry examines a 1951 report written by a delegation of Scottish trade unionists who travelled to Ukraine to learn about life as a worker under socialism
A Woman’s Place is in The Revolution!
“We must connect with our international sisters in the fight for peace, because where there is war, there is rape. We must develop our praxis continuously to build a universality of Marxist feminism for cultures and experiences across the world.”
UK Strike Action: challenges faced from public opinion
Howard Green takes another look at the continual strike action in the UK, and analyses at how the public may feel
YCL General Secretary’s 2023 New Year’s Address
The Young Communist League of Britain’s General Secretary, Johnnie Hunter, has released the following New Year’s address to mark the beginning of 2023:
YCL Statement: 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the USSR
The Central Committee of the Young Communist League of Britain commemorates the 100th Anniversary of the founding of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, with the following statement:
Common announcement of the 16th Meeting of European Communist Youth Organisations (MECYO)
This statement from MECYO addresses the current imperialist war in Ukraine, anti-Communism in Europe, and the kidnapping of the Kononovich brothers
Scotland’s drug problem
In the wake of the Scottish government’s complete failure to remedy the drug death epidemic, Phill Kelly discusses the magnitude of this tragedy, and how the only effective response is the communist response
44th anniversary of the Maras massacre: the CIA-backed Turkish massacre
On the anniversary of one of the most horrific acts of violence in Turkey’s history, Berkan Çelebi writes about the involvement of the intelligence services to collude with fascists, and why the forces of the working class must remain steadfast.
