1999 - April

April 30, 1999, will be the 24 anniversary of the ending of the Vietnam War. A generation ago our parents marched, burned draft cards, sat-in, and said, "Hell no! We won't go." Working class youth and students led the mass movement to end the Vietnam War. They also did most of the dying for the United States. Now the youth of America face the prospect of a ground war in Yugoslavia.

Since January 1997, more than 2,000 young people have joined the YCL, and the trend continues. At the end of the 1990s, the young Communist movement in the U.S. is about to reach the next level - a mass Young Communist League.

The fight for Mumia Abu-Jamal focuses on the agenda of the right wing: the criminalization of youth (especially youth of color), the brutality of law enforcement, the suppression of dissent, the expansion of the death penalty, the gutting of defendants rights, and the whole political atmosphere based on a double standard of justice for the most oppressed citizens in the United States.

The brutal shooting of Amadou Diallo, 22, in the Bronx, N.Y., has triggered a broad and growing nationwide response from students, community, and labor.