The essential purpose and the central task of Challenge in this regard is not an easy one: Our magazine, like our organisation, is addressed with nothing less than winning mass support among young workers and students for revolutionary socialism, the Communist Party and our programme, Britain’s Road to Socialism
The mismanagement of the Cleansing services by the Glasgow Council is a testament to the city’s neglect of working class interests
To end off the YCL’s Recruitment Month, Amelia Smith writes on Merseyside branch’s food bank collection efforts
Mustafa Harabou argues that the hostilities at the US-Mexico border over the past week echo centuries of anti-Haitian racism
Capitalism has convinced many that wage rises fuel inflation
Rather than boycotting the jobs, four YCL members who work in live events gained access to the biggest arms fair in the world – and set off smoke grenades
The Glasgow YCL branch are delighted to announce the release of our Glasgow City Council Alternative Budget for 2021/22
In this Challenge article from last November, Hannah Phillips writes on the Manchester University student rent strike, arguing that the success must be a call to action for students across Britain to fight against sky-high fees, extortionate accommodation and inadequate courses
Dina Groden writes on the importance of assistive technology for disabled people.
Tom Flanagan argues that the SNP administration in Holyrood, and Scotland’s political establishment generally, continue to ignore the problem of anti-Irish racism with misplaced efforts to target ‘sectarianism’.
Tom Bird writes on the importance of Marxism in examining contemporary capitalism
To kickstart Recruitment Month, Andrew Gibson writes about the YCL’s fight against food poverty in Lanarkshire.
The national interests of Iran and the Taliban require them to have considerable relations, but the Taliban have likely come in power through an agreement, believes the Iranian foreign policy analyst Fereydoun Majlessi.
Almost every assassin involved in the murder of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse was Colombian. That’s no coincidence: if you want mercenaries for hire on the cheap, often trained by the US military, you can find them in spades in Colombia.
Efrem Craig reflects on the effects that the pandemic has had on teaching, whilst making the case for a socialist education system
It’s not our fault that reality is Marxist, but if we do not escape the dead end of liberal leftism, it is our fault if no-one trusts us any more, argues Maryam Pashali
George Hughes writes on Thatcher’s historic attempts to disrupt working class solidarity
Greetings and solidarity to all of the delegates attending the YCL’s historic 50th Congress this weekend at Ruskin House and to all the comrades and branches who have participated in Congress debate and discussion this year from the length and breadth of Britain. Our Congress meets at a time when the stakes for our class and for humanity could not be higher.
We must assume the phrase “I am Fidel” in practice, as the best tribute to the person who showed us that the only option we should never contemplate is surrender writes Miguel Cruz.
Interrupting the solemnity of the moment, like a wave gaining strength, the clamour rose and little by little the Plaza de la Revolución became a single voice chanting: I am Fidel. It was Tuesday, November 29, 2016 and the people of Havana, representing all of Cuba, had gathered there to pay tribute to our undefeated Comandante who had departed to immortality.
The Labour Party’s stated intention to campaign to keep partition must be ignored — the British working class will find it’s strength in giving the Irish people the right to choose their future, writes Nick Wright.
