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The YCL Education/Literature Committee has produced new club educationals! Click here to download the latest educationals to use with your club!

The new issue of Dynamic is out now! Check out the examination of sexuality in professional sports, the Midwest Hip-Hop revival and a discussion on what globalization is all about Click here to find these articles and more!

Read the New Issue of Dynamic Magazine! Get the latest on the fight for peace, jobs and education. With an exclusive article by George Raphela on the YCL of South Africa's solidarity with the youth of Burma. Click here to find the new issue.

The United Autoworkers (UAW) are on strike against General Motors. These workers are fighting for all of us, helping maintain a higher standard for overall worker wages and benefits. Read the article to find out what you can do and where there are picket lines that you can join to show your solidarity!

In July of 2007, members of the Young Communist League-USA (YCL-USA) joined 58 other Americans on the 38th Venceremos Brigade to Cuba. The Venceremos ("We Shall Overcome") Brigade was founded in 1969 by a coalition of young people as a means of showing solidarity with the Cuban Revolution by working side by side with Cuban workers and challenging U.S. policies towards Cuba, including the economic blockade and our government’s ban on travel to the island.

Monday, March 19, 2007 will be the 4th Anniversary of the United States’ immoral and illegal invasion of Iraq. The National Youth and Student Peace Coalition (NYSPC) is asking for its members and member groups to collectively display youth and student solidarity against the war and the priorities of this country by wearing a “Books Not Bombs” button, t-shirt or armband.

On August 20-21, at the invitation of the Canadian government, the leaders of the United States, Mexico and Canada are meeting behind closed doors at Chateau Montebello, Quebec, for the third Annual Security and Prosperity Partnership Leaders Summit. The Young Communist League of Canada - La ligue de la jeunesse communiste du Canada, the Young Communist League USA, and the Juventud Comunista de Mexico joins with the young peoples in Canada, the US and Mexico in resisting the SPP.

Click here to download the YCL's newly revised and updated study guide for the Communist Manifesto to use for study with your club!

Americans Against the Escalation in Iraq is launching a summer project aimed at organizing voters in key Republican House and Senate Districts. You can earn money while helping to end the war in Iraq! Check out the article for job description and information. You must get your in application by June 7th!

The YCL has launched our 2007 membership drive that will build up our organization from the ground up both in numbers and in commitment to the organization! Check how your club can involved today!

Our country began 2007 on better ground than many have experienced in a very long time; than some of us have ever experienced in our lifetimes. The November Congressional Election yielded results even the most optimistic of us had not suspected with the ultra-right losing the majority in both the House and in the Senate. We know that this is simply a small step in preparing our own path to socialism.Communists have a clear role to play.

Click here to read our new counter recruitment pamphlet. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to find a downloadable version to print and use in your area.

Over Memorial Day weekend 2006, youth from around the country came together to fight back against the Bush Agenda and to build a future of peace, jobs and education for young people! Click here for highlights from the 8th National Convention of the YCL!

Youth Stand Up for PEACE, DEMOCRACY and JUSTICE on April 29th!

CALLING ALL YOUTH

On Saturday, April 29th, 2006 we will gather in New York City with people from all over the country to demand Peace, Justice and Democracy for our generation and for all the world's people! Join us in showing the White House and Congress that youth and students will not stand by and watch them destroy the hopes and dreams of our generation!

For more information, check out March for Peace Justice and Democracy

On campuses around the country this fall young people will be gathering to learn about and discuss the reality of the war on Iraq and its connection to the struggles of youth and students in our high schools, colleges and communities.

NATIONAL DAY OF RESISTANCE - MARCH 16, 2006

On Mar. 16, JOIN the NATIONAL YOUTH AND STUDENT PEACE COALITION in organizing a national youth-led day of action against the war! In March of 2003, NYSPC activists led 500 student actions to stop the war. Three years and thousands of deaths later, NYSPC is calling for actions across the country to demand an end to this disastrous occupation, and we urge young people everywhere to call upon Congress to fund BOOKS NOT BOMBS!

Click here to find out how you can organize an action on your campus or in your community.

Click here to check out what will happen at the 16th World Festival of Youth and Students!

Click here to find all about the festival. Also on this page: download a NEW pamphlet that you can use to tell everyone you know what the festival is and how to get involved. You can also download the application to apply to attend the festival (PDF versions available).
Check out the official US Festival website at http://usnpc.net

WASHINGTON — Bruised but unbowed by labor’s failure to oust George W. Bush in the Nov. 2 election, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney told a news conference here that the movement will “fight like hell�? to stop Bush’s ultra-right agenda in his second term. reprinted from the People's Weekly World newspaper
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If you turned on the TV on November 3rd CNN mentioned to you that young people showed up at the polls but it was nothing too impressive. They told you that while the numbers went up, so did all voter-turnout numbers and there was no significant shift or big change in how many young folks showed up as compared to the rest of the population. Some of them even went so far as to blame the youth for not turning out enough to impact the elections favorably for Kerry. But the numbers tell another story.