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When I arrived at the meeting place uptown, it was still dark. There were several people lined up or sitting on benches at 125th Street in Harlem - older folks of color, children in strollers. I approached the corner, video camera on my back, feeling the strange combination of simultaneous excitement and exhaustion. Tired because I woke up at 4 a.m. after a long day and week of work. Excited because I was on my way to Washington, D.C., for what would surely be the largest demonstration I had ever attended.

Today, we celebrate May 1 as International Labor Day. That date was chosen to honor the eight martyrs of the Haymarket Affair and the cause they fought for, the "Eight Hour Day Movement."

My father left college in 1972 to return to Gary, IN. He left behind his education and independence to take care of my grandmother, who was sick at the time. Like many people during that time, he got a job at one of the steel mills in the area, becoming the breadwinner in the household.

I packed my bags and set off to Oaxaca, Mexico. Initially my interests were in the region's artistic traditions and the promise of relaxation. I was going there to participate in a writer's retreat embraced in jasmine and bougainvillea flowers. One afternoon, the street leading to my bed and breakfast were blocked off.

There's a growing urgency among our working class community to stop the war in Iraq. The war on Iraq is projected to cost $9 billion a month. This translates into budget cuts in our schools, jobs and social services. We have to stop this war before it starts.

Our country is being devastated by the Bush administration. Like the miners in Pennsylvania who survived because they stuck together, we the people can pull ourselves out of danger with our vote in the 2002 elections.

The totalitarian Turkish regime revoked Nazim Hikmet's citizenship in 1951. According to a statement of the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP), those same forces that exiled Hikmet are today celebrating him. "They read his poems; they talked about how big poet he was. Their sole aim is to liquidate him, to defeat his ideas which they could while he was alive," said the statement. But why?

Watching MTV today, makes it seem that capitalistic materialism has taken over music. From bands like N'SYNC, created primarily to make money rather than music, to Hip-Hop artists who blatantly advertise products in their songs, socially conscious musicians seem to be few and far between. However, a deep look into the underground of music reveals a different kind of artist. Immortal Technique is one of those.

The streets are my canvas, I don't have the dough to push out and buy paint;
I rack [steal] it. When you're broke and you wanna draw, graffiti is what you do--bottom line it's poor folk's art" - EnocRock

The Legend of Bhagat Singh is one of several new movies about the famous Indian revolutionary to come out of India this year. The movie is fascinating for its portrayal not only of an important historical figure and period, but of a man who possessed exemplary revolutionary traits of courage, discipline, and sacrifice.

Displacement is an act of force. Displacement is when working class and poor people are forcibly pushed out of their community so more affluent people and businesses can move in for the purpose of profit and destabilizing communities.

"Youth are the Future." We have all heard it before, and as clich�d and ridiculous as it may sound, it's true. For the YCL, the future lies in its youngest members. These are the members who (hopefully) will be around for the longest. High school is a time to figure out what you want to do, what's important to you, and what you believe in. It is a time when people are usually open to new ideas. High school is a time for learning (or so I hear) and you certainly won't learn about class struggle, so it is the role of the YCL to teach the class struggle.

Many YCLers face similar challenges on campuses and communities: What does the YCL contribute to the student-labor movement? What are some ideas for getting started? How can a club come out of that work?

The anti-globalization movement was the \"it\" movement for young people until the tragedy on September 11. Major protests against the undemocratic nature of the financial and political institutions that govern globalization exploded at every major international meeting. Ties were strengthened between labor, environmental groups, students, and community organizations. The YCL has played an important leadership role in the movement by working hard to strengthen and consolidate the coalitions that form it.

This year marks the 80th Anniversary of the Young Communist League, USA. To commerate this occasion, Dynamic published a three part series on the YCL and other communist youth organization in this country�s past. The following is the final installment of this series, which included pictures and documents from the YCL archives . We encourage our readers to further explore the diverse history of our movement.

The Southern California YCL joined thousands of people in their march to Sacramento demanding that Gov. Gray Davis sign State Senate Bill 1736. SB 1736 would ensure the United Farm Workers (UFW) bargaining leverage in their contract negotiations with the California Growers. Si Se Puede! Yes We Can! Chants were carried amongst a sea of UFW flags and Aztec dancers.

Since the inception of its �War on Terrorism�, the Bush Administration has been signaling that it plans to invade Iraq to bring about a regime change, that is, the overthrow of the government of a sovereign state. Oblivious to any criticism, the administration has recently stated that it plans to carry out this mission, even if it means that the United States will be acting contrary to the wishes of every other nation in the world.

Hassan Alizaden and Amir Hossein carry a scrapbook of newspaper clippings wherever they go. Inside, there are articles in many different languages, from many different countries. They\'re written in Arabic, Spanish, French, and English, but each one tells the same tale of heroic perseverance.