YCL DEFIANT IN FACE OF POLICE REPRESSION AT #COP26 🚨✊
While we fight for Socialism, the police fight for Extinction.
These police serve the Tory government, who in turn serve the monopolies and oil companies: so it's no wonder they are cracking down on those who... (1/2)
...recognise that you can't fight the climate crisis without fighting those directly responsible for it.
We are not in the least surprised or intimated by today: we will redouble our commitment to saving our planet by destroying capitalism, before it destroys us. (2/2)
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Today is 140 years since the greatest living thinker, Karl Marx, ceased to think. Born in 1818 in Trier, Germany, as a teenager Marx joined the radical group the 'Young Hegelians', followers of the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
But rather than just...
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believing in an established philosophy, Marx sought to not only develop upon it, but to prove it as scientific fact. So at a time when a belief in socialism was becoming popular amongst many radicals, it had yet remained a utopian idea. A hope and a dream that life...
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could be better if people just wished for it to be so, and if the morals of capitalists could be appealed to and reasoned with. But there was no clear understanding of how exactly it could be achieved, or a full understanding as to why it must be achieved.
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On this day in 1916, Mexican revolutionary fighter Petra Herrera died. While her name is one you may not be familiar with, it is one slowly being explored and revealed 🇲🇽
Petra Herrera was a fighter in the 1910 Mexican Revolution and one of the bravest and most... (1/15)
successful "Las Soldaderas": women fighters in the Mexican Revolution.
The Mexican Revolution was a battle for civil liberties in which ordinary people fought to free themselves from the oppression of the corrupt federal government. Eventually, the success of the... (2/15)
uprising would transform the country’s political, financial and cultural life, but not until Mexico had endured a decade of bloody civil war between 1910 and 1920.
It is unlikely that the forces of the revolution would have been able to finally topple dictator... (3/15)
On December 30, 1922, the First All-Union Congress of Soviets adopted the...
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Declaration and Treaty on the Formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The Union formed the world's first socialist state that united the Soviet republics born of the Great October Revolution.
The realisation of socialism within the USSR against the...
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attacks of many, for almost 70 years, demonstrated that another better world was and is indeed possible, and can be achieved by the union of the working class. We recognise the massive achievements made by the world’s first and greatest Socialist State, and dedicate...
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John Cornford was one of the first British volunteers for the Spanish Civil War. He was born in Cambridge on 27 December 1915, to Francis, a Trinity College classics professor, and Frances Cornford, a renowned poet and granddaughter of Charles Darwin.
John became a...
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communist at an early age, and during a brief period of study at the London School of Economics he joined the Young Communist League at the age of 18, before becoming a full Party member at 20.
Upon his arrival at Trinity College in the autumn of 1933, Cornford...
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quickly became a galvanising influence within the Cambridge University Socialist Society (CUSS) alongside fellow student and friend James Klugmann. Members of CUSS at the time also included future Cambridge spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean who were in higher years...
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October 8 is known in Cuba as Day of the Heroic Guerilla, where they celebrate and honour the life of revolutionary guerilla fighter, Che Guevara 🇨🇺🚩 #CheViva
55 years ago in 1967, Ernesto ‘Che‘ Guevara was captured while organising a revolution in Bolivia, before...
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being executed the following day.
Che had secretly and mysteriously left Cuba a few years earlier, renouncing his official titles and his honorary Cuban citizenship, in order to help fight and progress other revolutions around the world.
However he met his end after...
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being captured by Bolivian Special Forces, with help from the CIA. After a failed interrogation, a nervous soldier was sent in to kill him, hesitating in doing so, to which Che famously responded with:
“I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are...
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As Leninists, it is our responsibility not just to follow behind the existing progressive elements of the working class and offer support to that which is already supported, but indeed to elevate the movement of the working class to the level of our programme.
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To engage in the former is not just opportunism, but tailism. We cannot drag behind, like the tail of the working class. Tailism is not just “lazy” or “ineffective”, but to be anything other than a leadership which provides a materialist, class analysis, is in...
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fact completely detrimental.
This means being proactive in identifying what must be done, developing new fights to win for the working class, correcting the direction of potentially progressive movements which have been misdirected, and...
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