Young Communist League

The YCL is a revolutionary youth organisation committed to achieving a socialist society based on public ownership and democratic control. Following the wisdom of Marxism-Leninism, the YCL aims to develop and encourage the political consciousness of young people and to increase their involvement in the class struggle at a local, national and international level.
The Young Communist League (or "YCL" for short) is the youth wing of the Communist Party of Britain (CPB). It is organisationally independent - deciding its own activities and priorities, but it follows the CPB's programme, Britain's Road to Socialism.
Give Youth a Chance!

It's not easy being young today ....

At every level today's society is letting our young people down. It SO doesn't need to be like this. The YCL believes in a better future, and that we need to join in the struggle to change things for the better. Give Youth a Chance!
The future belongs to the young. You can build a better future!

Give Youth a Chance! Marxism for Beginners

Short Cartoon from the 70's

Check out Marxism for Beginners in our Audio and Video resources section.

Young Communists in Scotland - build a better future!

We have a number of young members and interested people in branches across Scotland. You can meet some of our members as we hold a stall from around 12-3:30pm EVERY SATURDAY outside Border's Book Shop on Buchanan Street, Glasgow.
If you would like to know more, get in touch with us or if you see our stall then introduce yourself! Our members are often at political events and demos with Communist Party flags.
International Young Communists

Across the world - youth unite - forward for lasting peace!

Youth across the world are uniting together to make a better world a reality. The international grip of corporations and big business is a barrier to real progress across the world. Whole nations are being exploited by powerful Capitalists, whose only concern is for increased profit for the few.
Even as Capitalism tries hard to target a youth market, Young Communists around the world are exposing the exploitation and inhumanity of Capitalism.
Check out our international Young Communists.
Communists are for Peace!

The whole world is crying out for peace - but powerful voices drown out this demand! Young Communists have a unique role to play in shaping and demanding a better future. Our recent peace meeting explored how Communist analysis can cut through the big business owned media spin, and get to the root of the matter.
Visit The Struggle for Peace - you can make a difference!
Socking it to today's Fascists

Who are they covering up for?

Hilter, Mussolini, Mosley and Franco - are their's just bad ideas from long ago?
No way - these poisonous beliefs are still finding disciples - mainly from the likes of the so called "British National Party".
Who are they covering up for?
Communist Manifesto - cartoon style

Marx's Communist Manifesto is one of the most influential socialist documents of all time. This video uses a great variety of cartoon clips to creatively illustrate some key ideas in the Manifesto, ideas which are as relevant today as ever.

Getting Revolutionary

Inspiration from earlier YCL days

Young Communists have led the progressive agenda amongst their generations, challenging those who want to exploit workers and keep the riches for themselves.

http://www.scottishcommunists.org.uk/ycl/

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Youth Unite and Fight! - Young Communist League, USA - Who We Are!


“Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.
No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.”
—Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois African American scholar, activist and Communist

CAPITALISM
What do you call a system that promotes selfishness, exploitation, racism and police brutality, sexism, and homophobia? A system that wages unjust wars for profit, that robs young people of jobs and education, devastates our communities with drugs and poverty and destroys our environment?

What do you call a system that puts people out on the streets, lets children go hungry and leaves the sick and elderly without care? A system that allows a small minority to become obscenely wealthy and powerful, while the majority of people live in poverty and powerlessness?

Do you call it inhumane? Unjust? Crazy? You can call it that, or you can just call it capitalism.

Most young people think there’s something wrong with “the system.” There is. What’s wrong is the system of capitalism itself. Under capitalism, the wealth produced by working people goes into the pockets of a small minority—the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

http://www.yclusa.org/article/articleview/1717/1/278/

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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00430.htm

Communist League candidates in local elections

Saturday, 25 August 2007, 12:03 pm
Press Release: Communist League
Media Release

The Communist League is fielding candidates in the upcoming elections for mayor in Auckland and Manukau.
The League is standing Felicity Coggan, 51, a clothing worker, for mayor of Auckland and Baskaran Appu, 41, a meat worker, for mayor of Manukau.
The communist candidates urge support for workers’ struggles to organise trade unions. They believe workers must use and extend union power to defend themselves and other working people from attacks by the employers and their ruling parties.


http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0708/S00311.htm

Its all over us like it's a good thing.
Be a commie because a dictator would be a good for us?
NOT!
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Commies commies commies... You just gotta hate 'em.

Women and Commies... Best friends since 1848.

The problem is the politicians who ARE communists such as the green party are using the environmental issues in our kids schools.

Our children are being brainwashed.

Someone recently said to me,"Don't get into the circle of it all. Stay on the outside".

That means, "don't get into the operation but stay at the political".

I know that there are many men involved in the MRM who see men as part of the problem to have men's rights. With men now feminised, I do get men asking for groups for support but I know that many are struggling to get the numbers. In father's groups you get men coming in when they need the help and then get out. Not so many stay to help it grow. That would be the same if our group started support groups.

But then at a political level, you have to cut off from the hardships everyday people are going through. But if you do get into caring from the ground, you end up losing the time to fight the political.

I guess that is why the left ideology is not interested in assisting men.

I read in a 1968 women's liberation pamphlet that the women were aware of men being unfree and having hardship but that it was not the position of the WLM to care. They were solely there for the empowerment of women.

No wonder so many people have no interest of getting involved. They are just trying to get through themselves.

But will a MRM equal to WLM encourage communism or is their a good chance this will be balanced to a more humanitarian approach?

Euthanasia is my next topic since that is another part of the left ideology.

After all of its historical embarrassments I don't think we have much to worry about any self-proclaimed Communist movements.

Now the movements that are going down the same path while cleverly evading the label, that's another story.

The hard sell didn't work, so now they're trying the soft sell :-)

They are well financed and run for political office.

Blessings

Bob

You really have to hand it to the Marxists, they have propaganda and rhetoric down to a fine art.

It would seem that the nazis are getting better at the delivery of their recruitment messages as well...

Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what is for dinner, In a constitutional republic the sheep can own a gun.

Democracy is mob rule - in the American declaration of independence there is no mention of democracy at all the forefathers knew that as a system democracy can alienate 49% of the population- its all about the republic that has within it checks and balances to protect or allow the individual to protect themselves

i like the idea of a constitutional republic, I am no expert but in my limited knowledge it seems they the forefathers who wrote the constitution were on to a good thing.

as for capitalism - it can work very fairly for everyone , the issue is however that in USA the power to "make the money" literally print it has been taken out of the hands of the people ( being represented by the elected officials) and put into the hands of the large private banks as such we have the fiat system - why do we need this system. the banks get paid outrageous interest to have a printing press -, income tax was introduced in USA to ensure repayment to the bankers, usury is banned in all religions by the way.

Rotschild said something akin to "let me control the nations money production and I care not who makes its laws" because he knew that in doing so he would become the lawmaker

Thomas Jefferson killed the central banks - he in his tenure got the US debt down to $30,000 dollars or so by revoking the central bank of america charter

An interesting thing to note is that all the US presidents that have been assasinated all had a vendetta against the central banking system

Why? Because they wanted to abolish the privately-owned Federal Reserve Bank. Five US Presidents who sought to abolish the private-owned Federal Reserve Bank were assassinated:

1) Andrew Jackson (Survived); 2) Abraham Lincoln; 3) James Garfield; 4) William McKinley; 5) John Kennedy.

Thomas Jefferson wrote: "The [privately-owned] Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly
hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution...
if the American people allow private banks to control the issuance of their
currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations
that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property
until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers
conquered."
Even Abraham Lincoln shared Jefferson's view of the private bankers.
In order to finance the Civil War, he approached the NewYork bankers
to see about getting a loan for the North. The interest rates they proposed
were in the order of 30%. Lincoln's response was akin to; "stuff it."
He then had Congress live up to its Constitutional responsibility for issuing
and valuing currency and issued his famous greenbacks.
Incredibly, like so many of us, even to the heights of power, Lincoln didn't
know at first that he had the OPTION, let alone the probably-intended OBLIGATION
to create money for the nation. With the civil war ending, he had come to the
conclusion that his government issued currency should become the basis of the
re-United States monetary system. Within a matter of weeks he was shot in the
Ford theatre with his monetary system dying with him.
In 1832, President Jackson vetoed the move to renew the charter of the 'Bank of the
United States' (a central bank controlled by the international bankers). In 1836 the
bank went out of business.
The Bank of the United States (1816-36), an early attempt at an American central bank,
was abolished by President Andrew Jackson, who believed that it threatened the nation.
He wrote:
"The bold effort the present bank had made to control the government, the distress it
had wantonly produced...are but premonitions of the fate that awaits the American people
should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of
another like it."
Andrew Jackson had at least two attempts made on his life. So proud and intent on
warning the future generations was he that his tombstone is inscribed with the phrase
"I killed the bank!"
It came back.
The Federal Reserve Act was passed in December 1913; ostensibly to stabilize the economy
and prevent further panics, but as Congressman Charles Lindberg Sr. warned Congress:
"This act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth...the invisible government by
the money power, proven to exist by the Money Trust investigation, will be legalized."
Even as early as 1916 President Woodrow Wilson was saying:
"I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation
is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth
of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have
come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated
Governments in the civilized world--no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a
Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion
and duress of a small amount of dominant men."
No more stinging condemnation of a concept can be given than by the man who, convinced
it was for the good, championed it in the first place!