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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Student Commission, YCL-LJC
March, 2015
The Young Communist League of Canada stands in solidarity with all students struggling for free, accessible, emancipatory education and against the commodification of education. This March will see important struggles develop across Canada and we call on all students to use this opportunity to build a united and militant student movement.
Central Executive Committee, YCL-LJC
February, 2015
Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women!
End the Harper government’s racism and environmental destruction!
This February, the Young Communist League of Canada stands in solidarity with those in the street demanding an inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women (MMIW). Both the annual day of action on February 14th, and the grassroots campaign “#ShutDownCanada”, send a necessary message that urgent action needs to be taken to end the oppression of Indigenous people.
The Young Communist League of Canada salutes the hard work of its members and friends during the year of 2014 and looks forward to the advancement of the struggles of the youth and student movement in 2015.
For the ruling class and their governments at the federal and provincial levels, 2014 was a year of continuing down the dangerous path of austerity and war. We saw the Conservative Party reach new lows in terms of fomenting occupation and reaction abroad; supporting a neo-Nazi backed government in Ukraine, wholeheartedly defending Israel’s massacre of more than 2000 Palestinians during the summer and joining in on the third invasion of Iraq this fall.