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To live life with purpose: 100 years of the Young Communist League
General secretary JOHNNIE HUNTER says the YCL, now rapidly growing once again, will mark its centenary by deepening its commitment to the class struggle in Britain and worldwide
100 years ago youth from across Britain met in Birmingham to found an organisation of a new type that would fight for a superior form of society, free from exploitation — today the Young Communist League is fighting once again
The Communist Party of Britain’s Congress last month debated a resolution on ending opposition to all nuclear power in light of technological advances and the climate crisis. RICHARD HEBBERT explains why
Behind the cute names of Scotland’s road gritters lies a workforce underpaid and overlooked – a fitting reflection of a Budget that protected profits, bungled its rollout and offered hardly a glimmer of hope, writes MATT KERR
Commiserations if you failed this year, MAT COWARD offers six points which, if followed religiously, will ensure you succeed next year
In the final part of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY explains how in 2018, after years spent rebuilding the PCS into a leading force against austerity, a damaging rupture emerged from within the union’s own left wing
PRABHAT PATNAIK looks at how the development of capitalism from the start divided the world into unequal segments
VERY FEW political organisations in Britain can trace their story back over the course of a full century. But what does 100 years of history mean for Britain’s young communists in 2021?
For the disinterested, this might be noteworthy in a passing sense: a small seam in the tapestry of Britain’s modern social and political history.
For anti-communists, it’s another confirmation of their proclamation, as rabid as it is unconvincing, that ours is an outdated and dying ideology — the communists have limped on, merely delaying the inevitable.
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