@benusbfc
Mate, the sports pub in my town has the TV built into the plate urinal so that you can physically piss on the players.
It's insane, and pretty gross haha
The Battle at Lake Changjin - the *full movie* is currently on YouTube for free ๐๐ฅ๐ฉ
Guess the Chinese were annoyed about its limited release over here:
Food banks are seeing record high demand, people are unable to feed their families, but nah. It's the milk we're angry about ๐
I'm vegan myself, but I don't get this at all. Politics without class consciousness is just performative bollocks to get reactions and feel superior.
Happening Now: Animal Rebellion takes to supermarkets around London to disrupt the dairy aisles!
This is only the beginning! Join Us this September to Stop the Supply of Dairy. Sign up for one of our talks happening every Thursday evening by following the links in our bio
The people having a meltdown over this is incredible ๐
It's a good film. Enjoying it isn't praising fascism, in fact it's understanding how and why it has taken root into English communities in the past. This is the point of it.
Join us Sunday on St George's Day for a film screening of "This Is England" and a discussion around Socialist Patriotism! ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟโณ
See you there!
@TalkTV
@RMTunion
Big up Eddie Dempsey ๐ฅ๐ holding his ground and doing railway workers proud, against rats like Jeremy Kyle who earn their money off the backs of working people's misery.
I back the
@RMTunion
's strike actions 100% and so should you!
At least 500 people in Bury St Edmunds taking a knee & 9 minutes silence for George Floyd &
#BlackLivesMatter
!
Everyone remained standing for over an hour listening to the words that black people of our town volunteered to share.
This is the start, it is by no means the end. โ
No you're not a Hoxhaist, Titoist or Dengist. It's 2021, you're either a Marxist-Leninist or you're not.
Picking sides in past battles based on the little you've read isn't an efficient way to be political. Learn from the past, but it is down to you to conquer your future.
Spent 4 years in the Labour Party struggling to do anything...
6 months into joining
@ycl_britain
&
@CPBritain
and I've written articles, been featured in the Morning Star, made numerous graphics, given a public lecture, given a memorial speech, edited several videos... ๐ฏ๐๐ฅฐ
5 minutes of us being at the RAF Lakenheath protest with our banner, an elderly lady came over speaking to us & began to cry. Her family were from Yugoslavia, and seeing Young Communists made her cry for what she'd lost when NATO bombarded it in 1999, killing 3000 people ๐ข (1/2)
Can't believe I didn't know that Angela Lansbury's father was a founding member of the CPGB, and one of the first Communist Mayors.
His first wife, Minnie, was also a leading suffragette and alderman ๐ฅ๐ช
Proud to have done the artwork for this event (for free) ๐ It seems that some people don't have a clue what costs are involved with organising events. Must be used to funding & everything being covered for them. Thanks for the free publicity though, it was grand ๐
โI trust you wonโt go out tippling too much during the holiday and these exciting times in Manchester and that youโll pay due attention to your health.โ - Marx to Engels, December 25 1857 ๐ป
Really really good lecture by Michael Parenti, which I'd not heard before, on the Political Economy of Sex Oppression.
A lot of the stats are from the 90's, but I can't imagine it's got much better since then. Thanks to
@CancellledPod
for uploading!
@A1exIsACl1kkie
I'm gay and this is a shit take. Do some working class people who dress like this make homophobic and predatory comments? Yes.
Is it helpful to paint people by how they dress (tracksuit & beer) as being homophobic? Not at all. You're making shit worse.
"We have one aim - one goal. We will speak directly to the working class, and promise them justice. Instead of consumer choice and an identity crisis, we will offer a world of loyalty, honour, and discipline - a lifetime of meaning and sacrifice." โญ๐ฉ
There's no such thing as "queer liberation". It's an abstract. The only liberation that can happen through socialism is the liberation of the working class.
LGBT+ who, although discriminated against, are not oppressed under capitalism, will not be liberated under socialism.
"Oh my god, look at this. The Young Communist League. Now these are going to be dangerous people in the future" ๐๐๐
Best review ๐ฏ
@yclbritain
I joined the Communist Party in 2020 just after Starmer took over Labour, but after I'd been reading Marx, Lenin, etc for about 3-4 years & doing sporadic activity with mates.
To finally get to work & to learn with lots of other comrades across Britain has been brilliant ๐ค๐ฉ
Capitalism in Britain is a bankrupt system - economically, politically and ideologically.
It has nothing to offer working people; except more poverty, more oppression, more war and the destruction of our planet.
But our lives donโt have to be this way. Working people produce
Just finished editing a short 7 min film about the Bury St Edmunds Marxist Historian, A.L. Morton ๐ฌ
Which included using the wind to showcase some of his books ๐จ
It's also a bit of a love letter to my hometown. Excited to share it soon.
Decent weekend in Manchester, away from all that coronation shite.
Head over and check out what
@yclbritain
had to say about it all ๐ I couldn't be prouder to be involved ๐ฉ
@JockGlasgow
Yes we are. Are you not angry too? Because you should be, rather than a smug little brat dividing the workers into your little identity boxes in an attempt to stay relevant and make yourself important.
Demands for a "GENERAL ELECTION NOW" are weird. Sure, the Tories clinging on to power is ridiculous. But do we really believe that Labour will do a better job right now? A Party which has spent the past few years purging the left-wing.
120 votes for Darren Turner (Communist Party of Britain) in Bury St Edmunds, making up 1.07% of the vote share.
Not bad for a first punt at it, against all the smears of being "Communist".
120 is certainly a lot bigger than our local Communist Party membership as well ๐
One of my best friends, Darren Turner, is running as the Communist Party parliamentary candidate for Bury St Edmunds & Stowmarket on July 4 ๐ฉ
He's one of the most hard working and principled people I've had the pleasure of knowing.
@DarrenTurnerCP
(1/6)
Eight UK volunteers martyd while fighting ISIS, and their supporters, the Turkish State. Do not let their sacrifices mean nothing by letting Turkey continue to carry on what ISIS started!
#DoNotAbandonRojava
@yclbritain
It's worth noting that the YCL doesn't celebrate St Davids Day or St Andrews Day, Marxist-Leninist authorotarians are Anglocentric? Who would have guessed.
Yesterday afternoon, campaigners for the
@WorkersPartyGB
in
#Manchester
were victims of a hit & run incident while canvassing for local elections. Footage shows a Red VW Golf reversing, then intentionally driving into people crossing the road.
On this day in 1930, Albrecht "Ali" Hรถhler, a member of the German Communist Party and its antifascist Red Front Fighters Association (RFB), shot Horst Wessel, a local leader of the Berlin Nazi Party's SA stormtroopers.
Wessel was involved in intimidating...
(1/3)
She also said how she had family who had died during WWII as communists, fighting against Nazi Fascism. She was so proud to see us there, and later came over again giving us a ยฃ10 note donation to the YCL as it's all she could afford to show her support of our work. ๐ฅบ (2/2)
@_TLN_
@tomhfh
Venue costs, sound system costs, buffet costs, travel costs for speakers, printing costs... It's almost like you haven't put on an event before? ๐ We don't get masses of funding from big organisations like some.
11/ This reformist view, espoused in Britain's Road to Socialism is fully endorsed by the
@yclbritain
which features Britain's Road to Socialism prominently at the top of its website. Full text:
@ChallengeYCL
Decent article. It definitely applied to me a few years back when I first got into anti-fascism and thought I needed to dress as a certain subculture to do it.
It wasn't until meeting some relatively normal Northerners involved that I realised the act wasn't needed.
#BeNormal
I didn't sleep much as I was up teaching myself how to format text for books, as you do.
Still a lot to play around with and work out, but hopefully there will be some decent YCL edition compilations soon. At least in digital format.
@A1exIsACl1kkie
You gonna make some shite joke about me being homophobic?
Because truthfully this pint is the most head I've had in ages. Now jog on ๐๐
We have more LGBT members in the Young Communist League than the entire membership of most other Marxist-Leninist "organisations" in Britain, past and present.
Let that sit with you for a while...
The man himself, RMT's Mick Lynch enjoying Burston Strike Rally yesterday with this strong look ๐ฅ๐ค
One for
@UnionDrip
๐
๐ธ Photo courtesy of
@sasastro
Absolutely fuming that I missed out on
@ReeceShearsmith
as a secret special guest at the Black Shuck Festival in Bungay ๐ค๐ but cool that we're both absolute folklore nerds in search of the shuck โก
@BarrySmellson
@yclbritain
Ever had the EDL make a "wanted poster" of you, message you with your address to threaten you, after opposing them in multiple cities around the country, and getting into physical confrontations with them?
No, didn't think so.
My letter in today's issue of the Morning Star, addressing the recent attention which the Young Communist League of Britain has been getting from a few minor critics from the Trots to the Ultras.
Our flag stays red ๐ฉ
@yclbritain
๐ค
@CPBritain
A good day yesterday, filming the hunt for A.L. Morton's grave ๐ชฆ
Morton was a Marxist historian & author who grew up in Bury St Edmunds, and lived most of his life in Clare. Famous for "A Peoples History of England", his life & legacy is soon to be published in a new book ๐
๐ณ๏ธBrinnington & Stockport Central results are in๐ณ๏ธ
Karl Peter Marx Wardlaw (Labour) has been elected to represent Brinnington & Stockport Central at the Stockport local elections 2024.
#LE2024
#StockportElection
@ManchesterMill
@HOME_mcr
@MIFestival
Engels was German. The statue is from Ukraine. Russia currently has nothing to do with Engels or Communism.
You touch that statue and you're in for a world of pain.
Iโm pleased to announce the new Peace and Justice Project, bringing people together for social and economic justice, peace, and human rights in Britain and across the world.
Find out more in our video and sign up to our launch here ๐
Here it is, a short film on Bury St Edmunds Marxist Historian, A. L. Morton ๐ฌ filmed with Professor James Crossley, for
@CenSamm
.
I'm self taught, so it ain't perfect. But I'm getting better each time.
Today we remember the passing of Mark Ashton (1960-1987), former General Secretary of
@yclbritain
and co-founder of
@LGSMpride
๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ฉ
In dedication, here is a classic photo of him which I have enhanced using Remini AI: