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YCL 8th National Convention May 2006
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Our Future, Our Fight: Youth Beat Back the Ultra-Right!
Young Communist League, USA
Eighth National Convention
May 27-29, 2006 * New York City
Our Future, Our Fight: Youth Beat Back the Ultra-Right
On Memorial Day Weekend members of the Young Communist League, USA refused to sit back while ultra-right attempts to destroy our future by holding our 8th National Convention in Brooklyn, New York. During the weekend, over 250 delegates and guests from Oakland, Chicago, Maine, Providence, Florida, St. Louis, New York and many other communities came together to celebrate the successes of the YCL in the last 4 years and to plan how to move the YCL forward in the struggle for peace, jobs and education for young people.
Convention highlights include:
Convention-goers attended “War and Peace”, an art exhibit and hip-hop performance co-sponsored by Dynamic Magazine, World Up and Upper Playground
Convention-goers demonstrated outside of a Brooklyn military recruitment center demanding money for schools, jobs and not for war
Convention adopted a national Action Plan, a document that provides a foundation for our work over the next 4 years
Convention approved resolutions covering our approach to the struggle of immigrants, the struggle for peace, and aid to survivors of Hurricane Katrina
Convention elected of new National Council and National Coordinator, Erica Smiley
The convention opened with a rousing speech from out-going National Coordinator Jessica Marshall, setting the tone for the rest of the weekend by noting “This country needs a radical youth organization, a strong and vibrant multi-racial organization. The YCL knows that unity is not a secondary vision. We are not victims, we are fighters!” Also addressing the convention were Congressman Major Owens (D-NY) who welcomed us to Brooklyn “on behalf of all the progressive forces of the nation and world”, Jarvis Tyner, executive Vice Chair of the Communist Party USA who reminded us that “Tomorrow is Yours”, and international guests from the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY), YCL of Canada, YCL of Greece, YCL of Israel and the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) of El Salvador.
Throughout the weekend YCL members and guests participated in workshops on topics ranging from issues such as “Youth and the Poverty Draft”, skills-building sessions on how to get involved in the upcoming elections to ideological workshops highlighting the YCL’s approach to fighting racism, the struggle women’s equality and the fight for democracy.
As we all return home, pumped from the Convention and ready to hit the streets in the upcoming elections, we invite you to join us in the fight for the rights of young people and for a better future for all youth. You can do this in many ways, signing up for the upcoming YCL School where you can dive deeper into the many ideological questions raised at the convention, you can participate in our elections work, and be a part of implementing our Action Plan in so many ways.
But before you do anything, consider joining the YCLUSA.
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Upcoming Events
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2008 Elections
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Check back soon for more information!
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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.
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The new club educational on the fight for peace.
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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!
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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!
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Download and printout the new club educational on Education today.
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Download the new Jobs and Youth Club Educational!
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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.
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YCL Action Plan passed by the 2006 National Convention and amended by the National Council in October 2006.
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Immigrant Rights Resolution passed by the 2006 National Convention and Amended by the National Council in October 2006.
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The YCL can be proud that all over the country our comrades gave their all, dedicating time and energy to organizing, educating and mobilizing young voters in our communities and on our campuses. Our midwest project sent dozens of young people to work in the battleground states and get a real hands on education about electoral politics and geting out the vote. We helped elect several local candidates, registered hundreds of young voters and built important relationships with other young people and youth organizations fighting to defeat Bush. This was no small accomplishment!
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We will be working with our allies in the youth and student movement in a unified effort to show how this election is key to all the struggles young people are facing from peace to education to police accountability to gay rights. Key to this is convincing people that the defeat of Bush would put the entire youth movement on a decisively better footing to start winning.
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As the the bombing of Lebanon continues and the deaths of innocent Lebanese civilians and Israeli citizens continues to rise, people across the United States are organizing to demand an immediate cease-fire. Check out the article for resources on the current situation in the Middle East and what you can do!
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The devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina was far from natural. Poor and working people were horribly affected by the racist and criminal neglect and failure to respond to this disaster and deliver emergency services to those who needed it most. In addition decades of disastrous socio-economic policies of social divestment and environmental degradation only opened the door for the tremendous damage and loss of life that was wrought by both hurricane’s Katrina and Rita. As money continues to poor into paying for the war and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, the struggle for adequate funding to rebuild the Gulf Region underscores the need to fight for peace and a fundamental change in our national priorities
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Young people face the greatest threats from the war, both at home and in the battlefield. The Young Communist League, has joined young people in resisting the militaristic foreign policy of the Bush administration from the beginning.
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Here is a list of Local YCL Clubs, as well as some places we are building. Not all of them have contact information listed, but if you get in touch with the National Office we can get you linked up 646 437 5345,
ycl@yclusa.org If you live close, but not in, one of the cities listed feel free to contact them anyway--they might be able to help you out. This will be updated with more contact information shortly!
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From the schoolhouse to the streets youth are under attack! Despite the best efforts of Bush and his extreme right wing gang, youth are fighting back. We can\'t defeat the ultra-right without a strong and vibrant youth movement. To do that we need a strong and vibrant Young Communist League. The YCL is the only organization out there that combines a strategy to fight back today and win for the long term!
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Seventy years ago, as the Spanish Republic faced an internal military revolt led by General Francisco Franco, compounded by an external fascist invasion, the progressive and anti-fascist youth of the world adopted the Spanish rallying cry “¡No Pasarán!,” or “They Shall Not Pass,” as the mantra of their generation’s struggle against fascism and war. Spain was far more than a symbolic struggle for anti-fascist youth, but quickly became, especially for Communist youth, an ideological testing ground for putting Popular Front theory into practice. The Spanish anti-fascist struggle permeated the literature and campaigns of the Young Communist League USA, showing anti-fascist youth of their generation the Communists’ sincere dedication to the causes of internationalism, peace and democracy. The historical political lesson learned and applied by the YCL in Spain was that only through complete unity could youth battle the reactionary social forces that were bent on unleashing fascism and imperialist war upon the world.
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Photo by Ken Besaw
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Readers of this publication don’t need to be told what problems—war, increasing poverty, joblessness, cuts in education funding, etc.—exist today in our country and our world. The question that needs to be answered is: What should we do? How can we turn the situation around?
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Cover - 2006/Issue 12
SUMMER ISSUE 12
Inside:
Feature article on "Why the Elections Matter."
* A special tribute to the young Americans who volunteered to fight
fascism in Spain during the Spanish Civil War.
* Exclusive front and back cover art from LA graffiti legend Mear One
* Special summer music recommendations
* And much, much more!
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