Young Communist League of Britain's Threads

Mar 14, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read

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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Feb 14, 2023 • 15 tweets • 3 min read

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)

Dec 30, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read

The Young Communist League of Britain commemorates the 100th Anniversary of the founding of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Read the full statement here:
ycl.org.uk/2022/12/30/uss…

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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Dec 28, 2022 • 12 tweets • 3 min read

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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Oct 8, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read

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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Oct 5, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read

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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Aug 30, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read

🧵 Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, has died aged 91.

Gorbachev came to power at a critical time in both Soviet and World history, where bold solutions were needed to the problems facing world socialism. Instead of Leninist solutions, Gorbachev... (1/9)

presented liberal reforms and capitulation to the neoliberal order of the West, dooming the Soviet Union and bringing an end to the Bolshevik revolution of 1917. The counter-revolution across the former Soviet Union in 1991, when the 'oppressed' Soviet people finally... (2/9)

Jul 17, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read

Today marks the 86th anniversary of the start of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 ❤️💛💜

A war which saw 35,000 men and women, from over 50 countries, volunteer to fight against the collective might of General Franco's fascists supported by both Hitler and Mussolini.

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As many as 2,500 volunteered from Britain & Ireland, with 80% coming from the Communist Party of Great Britain and the Young Communist League. Roughly 626 were killed, paying the ultimate price in their fight for freedom.

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Mar 18, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read

Today marks the 151st anniversary of the founding of the Paris Commune 🇫🇷🚩

On the morning of the 18th of March, the citizens of Paris awoke to find French Government troops attempting to seize the cannons they had purchased to defend the city during the... (1/5)

Franco-Prussian War. In response, the Parisians rebelled, forcing government troops and officials to flee to Versailles. In the following days Paris elected a new municipal council, formed of working class radicals and revolutionaries, founding what became known as the... (2/5)

Mar 17, 2022 • 12 tweets • 5 min read

Following on from International Working Women's Day earlier this month, we wish to spend the next few weeks highlighting the extraordinary role women have played in Britain's Communist movement ✊🌹

Claudia Jones (1915-1964) was a Communist from Trinidad. She moved to... (1/12)

New York, USA, when she was 8 years old with her sisters to join her parents. She suffered with tuberculosis which left her lungs irreparably damaged.

For over 30 years she lived in New York and was an active member of the Communist Party of the United States of... (2/12)

Mar 1, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read

At a time when we need to tackle the cost of living crisis & encourage green public transport, the Tories have just announced the biggest rise in fares since 2013 📈

Another attack on working people to line the pockets of companies that have been ripping us off for decades (1/4)

As part of our Youth Charter, Britain’s young communists are calling for:

• Fixed price public transport network cards with capped affordable prices for everyone under 30, providing unlimited access to the local and national rail, bus and city transport networks.

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Feb 21, 2022 • 6 tweets • 4 min read

Today is #RedBooksDay2022 a day to celebrate left books, their authors, and the people’s movements they ushered forward 📕✊

In the first of our three lists we look at the most essential texts in Marxist-Leninist theory, to help start your journey or refresh your memory. (1/6)

Most of these can be downloaded for free today from the link below, with some physical editions available from the YCL shop 🚩Enjoy!

#RedBooksDay2022

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Nov 7, 2021 • 12 tweets • 4 min read

YCL Statement on COP26 protests ✊🚩

Yesterday the Young Communist League joined thousands of protestors in opposing the sham COP26 meeting in Glasgow, Scotland. As has been noted in the national media and by many online, we were surrounded by a police line that... (1/12)

engaged in arbitrary confrontations with us throughout the day. They opposed our right to march with no reason given to us or legal observers, clearly seeing us as a credible threat.

We would like to reiterate that we are neither intimidated nor surprised: as the... (2/12)

Nov 6, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read

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)

Nov 6, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read

The Young Communist League congratulates the Communist Party of Britain on its 56th Congress, taking place this weekend in London. It is set to be the largest since the 1980s, due to the increasing growth in membership over the past few years 📈🚩

Many of us who are... (1/6)

dual members of the CPB will be there as branch delegates, representing the views of our branch as well as ourselves, with only members of our Central Committee bound to represent the views of the YCL.

The League & the Party go hand in hand, as we strive forward... (2/6)

Sep 10, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read

3️⃣0️⃣Reasons why you should join the Communists 📝🔴

Reason 1️⃣0️⃣ Put an end to Austerity 💷✂️🚫

In 2010, the disastrous coalition government began to implement an austerity program that has ravaged our economy and public services. The Tories and Lib Dems relentlessly... 1/8

...cut our NHS, education and welfare system in an attempt to cover up the damage caused by capitalism.

This austerity was nothing less than a planned attack on working class rights and living standards to make workers pay for the Financial Crisis. Britain’s ruling class... 2/8

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