We march in memory of missing and murdered Indigenous women

Women’s Commission, YCL-LJC

February, 2016

This February 14th, like years prior, marches will be held across Canada to commemorate missing and murdered Indigenous women. Since 1980, nearly 1200 women’s names have been added to the growing list of missing and murdered Indigenous women. Despite the horror of these lost lives, the media and the police have largely ignored the cries for help from the families of these women. Their murders continue to create an atmosphere of impunity and indifference. The march to commemorate these women was founded in 1991 in Vancouver to demand an end to this silence. This February 14, the Young Communist League will join others in marches across Canada in remembrance of these stolen lives.

Young Communists demand system change not climate change

Central Executive Committee, YCL-LJC

December, 2015

As world leaders meet in Paris to discuss a new international agreement on climate change, youth around the world are demanding climate justice. A successful result at the COP21 negotiations demands a sharp break with multinational monopoly corporations and a rejection of imperialist and market ‘solutions’ to the climate crisis. The Young Communist League of Canada joins those voices demanding this necessary fundamental change.

End Islamophobia & War

Central Executive Committee, YCL-LJC

November, 2015

The Young Communist League of Canada mourns the lives of all civilians killed in the latest wave of mass shootings and bombings in Paris, Beiruit, Yola, Suruç, and elsewhere. Attacks targeting civilians, whether committed by individuals, sectarian groups or imperialist states are terrible crimes. We must also condemn the government of Canada’s participation in the latest bombing campaigns in Iraq and Syria which have only served to further destabilize these countries.

Harper defeated, youth struggle against the corporate agenda continues

Central Executive Committee, YCL-LJC

October 2015

The Young Communist League of Canada welcomes the defeat of the Harper Conservatives in the federal election, but recognizes the immediate need to intensify the youth and student struggle against the new Liberal version of the big business agenda.

The long road to LGBTIQ equality: Next step – defeat Harper!

June, 2015

The annual Pride summer season is here, with hundreds of activities in major cities and small towns across the country. The Communist Party of Canada and the Young Communist League of Canada extend warm solidarity to the LGBTIQ community and allies, and urges voters to dump the anti-equality Harper Conservatives in the coming federal election.

Violence can’t defeat our struggle for a better future

A letter of solidarity from the Young Communist League of Canada (YCL-LJC) to the Young Communists of Chile (JJCC)

YCL-LJC International Commission

May, 2015

Dear Comrades,

We want to express our full solidarity with all the young communists of Chile (organized in the JJCC) and all youth and student activists who are mourning Exequiel Borbarán and Diego Guzmán Farras. These two students (the latter being a member of JJCC) were shot and murdered while taking part in a student mobilization in Valparaíso.

Central Committee Report on 2015 Federal Election

YCL-LJC Central Committee Report on the 2015 Federal Election

Central Committee – April 5, 2015

Almost a decade of Conservative rule in Canada has brought war, austerity and crises.

After 9 years of the Harper government’s rule, the upcoming Federal election, whether in the Spring or the Fall, marks an important opportunity for the YCL-LJC in their struggle for peace, jobs, the environment and democracy, as well as the broader struggle for socialism.

Solidarity with Quebec students facing police repression and expulsions

Student Commission, YCL-LJC

April, 2015

The Young Communist League of Canada – Ligue de la jeunesse communiste du Canada (YCL-LJC) stands in solidarity with Quebec students fighting against austerity. We condemn the threatened politically motivated expulsions of 9 students at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) by administration, as well as the Liberal government’s and the UQAM administration’s use of police repression in an attempt to stifle the student movement.

For full solidarity with striking university workers in Toronto

Student Commission, YCL-LJC

March, 2015

The Young Communist League of Canada calls for full solidarity with educational workers at the University of Toronto and York University. CUPE 3902’s and CUPE 3903’s educational workers are now on strike at two of Canada’s largest universities, at which almost 140,000 university students study.

McMaster BDS Campaign: Victory in mobilizing anti-Imperialist youth

YCL Hamilton

March, 2015

Congratulations to the McMaster BDS committee for successfully leading the campus struggle in the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanction (BDS) movement on campus. The Young Communist League in Hamilton is proud of its part within the movement to bring about this preliminary victory in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS)’s movement on campus at McMaster University.