YCL Pamphlets

Download the new YCL Student Government Factsheet

Download the YCL's pamphlet that explains Bush's attack on Social Security and how to fight to save Social Security!

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.

How many of you have faced tuition hikes in your universities and not received more financial aid? Have you had to take time off from school to save money to pay higher tuition? Given up extracurricular activities to take on more work hours? How many of you are taking on unmanageable debt or are going through college without any health insurance? How many of you are graduating high school and beginning to think that maybe college is just not worth the price? How many know friends or siblings that are facing these issues? Unfortunately, like so many other essential services, higher education is becoming less and less accessible to working class, poor, and immigrant youth.

Throughout U.S. history, immigrant labor, either voluntary or involuntary, has helped build the industries, schools, roads, railways, and neighborhoods of this country. The push to end the exploitation of immigrants and expand their rights to live, work, vote, and prosper in the United States is a fundamental goal of the larger working-class movement. Both the Bush Administration and corporate America use race, gender, sexuality and immigration status to divide workers and communities for their own profit.

Comrades, today I would like to talk on the fundamental tasks of the Young Communist League and, in this connection, on what the youth organisations in a socialist republic should be like in general.

Every YCL club has to start somewhere, so take a chance. If you feel like the only communist in your city or sometimes even your state, build a Young Communist club to fight for economic and social justice. Look around at the developments in your city or in your school. Are there issues that piss other people off?