About the YCL

The Young Communist League, USA is a multi-racial, working-class organization made up of youth who believe we can build a better world. We come from a variety of backgrounds, just like the young people of our country: we are employed and unemployed workers, we are high school and college students, we are Black, white, Latino, Asian, and Native American, we are gay and straight, we are women and men.

Your questions and concerns might be addressed in this FAQ organized into sections:
1. Capitalism
2. Socialism and Communism
3. Organizing, communists, and the YCL
4. International Issues

This year marks the 80th Anniversary of the Young Communist League, USA. To commemorate this occassion, Dynamic will be pulbishing a 3-part series on the history of the YCL and the other communist youth organizations in this country�s past. We also will be publishing historic photos and images from old YCL documents. We encourage YCL members to write about different aspects of YCL history to contribute to this effort.

In 1943, as World War II was raging in Europe, the Young Communist League was dissolved because of the influence of Earl Browder, then Chairman of the Communist Party, USA (CPUSA), who advocated a rejection of Marxism-Leninism. Based on Browder\'s theories, many believed the wartime unity of the Soviet Union and the United States would continue and that the class struggle had ended. They failed to analyze the reality of capitalist society, and its aggressive, imperialist nature. Browder dissolved the Communist Party a year later, founding the Communist Political Association in 1944.

This year marks the 80th Anniversary of the Young Communist League, USA. To commerate this occasion, Dynamic published a three part series on the YCL and other communist youth organization in this country�s past. The following is the final installment of this series, which included pictures and documents from the YCL archives . We encourage our readers to further explore the diverse history of our movement.

The Tamiment Library has a photo exhibit of archival photos of CPUSA and YCLUSA activists and leaders.