Communist Party and YCL protest against Algirdas Paleckis’ imprisonment
On Thursday 28 October 2021, Communist Party and YCL members met outside the Embassy of Lithuania in Pimlico, London to protest against the unjust victimisation of socialist leader Algirdas Paleckis
The revolution and the revolutionary
Matt Cox writes on the role Young Communists play in shaping a revolutionary environment within Britain
Priti Patel to give police powers to prevent protesters travelling
Since Priti Patel’s announcement on Tuesday (5 October) to crack down on protesters, civil liberties groups have reacted with outrage, saying the plans disregard any notion of a “healthy democracy”
Disrupting the DSEI Arms Fair: workers take action
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 communist alternative: Glasgow City Council budget
The Glasgow YCL branch are delighted to announce the release of our Glasgow City Council Alternative Budget for 2021/22
Challenge archive: A bike for Uncle Ho
In this article from March 1968, Jenny Maldon writes on the YCL’s campaign work for the people of Vietnam during the War.
Our Congress! Our Struggle! Our Future!
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.
YCL100: ‘The Defence of Madrid’ by Phil Gillan (1937)
Phil Gillan, a Young Communist League member from Glasgow, was the first of 549 volunteers from Scotland to join the Spanish Civil War. Fresh from the battlefield, he writes about his time training in the Tom Mann Centuria before serving within the Thälmann Battalion, and the realities of war against the fascists. After miraculously surviving a serious injury inflicted by German Nazis, he returned home where he told his story, and helped to recruit many others to join in the united fight for freedom
YCL100: The Spanish Civil War and The International Brigades
The 17th July 2021 marks the 85th anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. Joe Weaver takes a look at what happened, and the contributions made by members of the Young Communist League & Communist Party of Great Britain.
Communists join People’s Assembly march in London to hold Tories accountable
Both the Communist Party and Young Communist League were in London on Saturday to join the People’s Assembly national demonstration against Boris Johnson’s government. The protest in London was calling for the end of both Tory cuts and Tory rule. The march was also supported by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, trade unions and trades councils and other progressive organisations from across Britain.
