IAN LAVERY MP says an immediate focus on raising wages and reducing costs must be part of a strategy to show Labour can deliver for workers again
From Scotland to London, Young Communists get organised
With some branches increasing in size by 320 per cent in two years, new branches founded and old branches refounded, the YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE is making a comeback
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World Peace Council president PALLAB SENGUPTA assesses the challenges facing the international peace movement and sends greetings to the Liberation AGM
KIERA MARSHALL says there is a gulf between the privileged circles in which most politicians move and the lives of working-class youth in left-behind estates – and as a newly elected Senedd member she’s determined to do something about it
ANGUS REID and ANDREW JOHNSTONE report on an initiative that we must take this summer
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London
Less than a year old, having been refounded in June 2018, members gathered from across the capital and nearby towns for the annual general meeting of the London Young Communist League, held in the historic Marx Memorial Library where Lenin once worked in exile.
Re-elected branch chair Daoud Hamdani reflected on a year spent developing anti-imperialist international work with both the Cuba Solidarty Campaign and Venezuela Solidarity Campaign, saying this had brought them most into contact with new recruits.
“Growth has been going well, but the large size of London and its transitory nature, if anything, makes it hard to keep up with the volume of membership enquiries.
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