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363:. The assembled delegates to this Unity Conference passed a proposal calling for the two standing groups to merge under a new name, that of the Young Communist League. This proposal was taken to the rank-and-file of each group, and the proposed unified constitution and organisational rules ratified in a referendum of branches held in October.
287:(CPGB) until 1991 when the CPGB dissolved. It then reorganised as the youth section of the newly founded Communist Party of Britain, which still exists today. During the 1920s and 1930s much of the YCL's activities focused on sports as a recruitment and organising tool for socialist causes. In 1932 its members led the
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Communist League commemorates 100 years since its original founding in 1921, with the YCL reflecting and drawing attention to its achievements throughout that time from the testimonies of past members, and a rejuvenation of its current organisation leading up
590:, people were legally not allowed to hand out ANC leaflets in the street, so devices known as leaflet bombs were set off in a number of different cities and locations, promoting the ANC and letting the African people know that they were still around regardless of the state suppression against them.
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and the Young
Communist League. The volunteers came from overwhelmingly working-class backgrounds, with large numbers hailing from cities such as London, Manchester, Liverpool and Glasgow. Only a small number were unemployed with large numbers involved in industrial occupations, such as labouring,
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Following the Fifth YCL Congress in 1928, the league began actively organising cultural events for young people. Regular political work was accompanied by film showings, football games, dances, recreational excursions, as well as a series of summer camps. These summer camps would become a regular
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The YCL was seen as a recruiting school for activists in the adult party, and the organisation's structure, internal relationships, and tactical activities closely paralleled and followed those of the CPGB. This was in turn a reflection of the structure and practise of the
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was also a member in the 60s). Throughout this period, YCL membership grew to over 6,000 members and a generation of young members, led by Barney Davis (national secretary), George
Bridges (London secretary) and others challenged the political approach of the parent party. The League continued
390:. While formally independent, the group was always closely linked to the CPGB and its activities and fortunes broadly followed those of its parent organisation. As with the adult party, the YCL saw itself as part of a unified world movement, and took its ultimate direction from the
378:(CPGB), which exercised oversight over the group. The YCL modeled itself upon the adult party and, in the estimation of historian Thomas Linehan, "functioned as a younger version of it." In 1954, the YCL supported 'The Red Scout', Paul Garland, who had been dismissed from his local
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reported that “Extinction
Rebellion has allowed a hard core of ideologues and Marxist infiltrators to dictate its agenda”, in relation to the attendance of a Young Communist League block on the demo brandishing a banner declaring "Socialism or Extinction" alongside an image of the
765:, which came to be used by the YCL as a campsite. This plot would later be named 'Coppice Camp', and it was donated to the Communist Party shortly before Cullen died in 1966. As well as summer camps for the YCL, the party made use of the campsite as a venue for weekend schools.
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to win access to the countryside for working people for recreation and leisure. The Summer Camp intend to "give young workers from across
Britain the opportunity to come together for political education and to socialise and enjoy our natural heritage."
274:. Although its headquarters is based in London, the YCL has active branches across England, Scotland, and Wales. Aside from sports and social programs, the YCL heavily focuses on publishing political literature, with its own political journal called
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In 1923 the YCL founded their Red Sports Clubs, aiming to rival the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. The YCL was very successful in using sports to organise young people politically against imperialism and poverty, and by 1932 the
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A recruitment drive started in 1966 around the slogan "The Trend - Communism" associated the group with wider cultural trends in society; "The Trend" campaign emphasised the power of music in social change (Irish folk singer
551:(the Party called it an "intervention" at the time), but the position was only adopted by a 60:40 vote. Some members who favoured a pro-Soviet line, including John Chamberlain (Jack Conrad), left the YCL to join the
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Britain's leading radical youth organisations, the Young Workers' League and the International Communist Schools Movement, gathered at a special conference held at
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in 1988 (and the dissolution of the CPGB in 1991), the Young
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group alone raising ÂŁ22,500 by 1985 (equivalent to ÂŁ69,000 in 2019) in support. The events of Mark Ashton and LGSM have since been dramatised in the 2014 film
663:, deciding its own activities and priorities with its own Congress & resolutions, but is constitutionally committed to support for the CPB's programme,
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1968 proved the start of a long decline in membership, characterised by competition between different tendencies. The leadership tended to be
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engaging in new musical cultures through the late 1970s, as young communists participated in a Camden squat along with the punk band
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Dee, David (January 2015). "A Means of Escape? British Jewry, Communism, and Sport, 1920–1950".
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communists with the tools to build themselves up in as many fields as we can".
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Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations.
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Logo of the Young Communist League as it appeared in 1923.
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1594:"From Scotland to London, Young Communists get organised"
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1407:"Anatomy of decline – the Young Communist League 1967-86"
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1580:"What do proper communists really think of Corbyn?"
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Forbidden Kinder: The 1932 Mass Trespass Re-Visited
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1186:"A new Challenge for young workers and students"
472:; a poet and Young Communist League member from
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2089:Communist Party of Great Britain
1768:Frost, Peter (3 February 2014).
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1638:. Morning Star. 2 April 2021.
1578:Ball, Tom (20 January 2018).
1559:Ball, Tom (23 October 2018).
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289:Mass trespass of Kinder Scout
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1816:. Random House. p. 78.
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1270:. Tribune. 31 October 2020.
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1348:"Ireland's Red Troubadour"
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2021:Scottish Young Greens
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