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YCLUSA

Official Myspace Page of the Young Communist League, USA

About Me

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. Check us out online at: www.yclusa.org

My Interests

Internationalism, Social & Environmental Justice, Dialectics, Socialism, Secularism, Peace, Education, the Arts, and Workers' Rights

I'd like to meet:

Other young activists, artists, progressives and revolutionaries who want to be apart of an organization working for social justice here in the US and internationally.

Music:

Check out "Duel of Iron Mics" , our review of the new Kayne and 50 Cent albums in the current issue of Dynamic at www.dynamicmag.org Jazz, Hip-Hop, Punk, Blues, Rock, Electronica,and all forms of musical expression from the US and all around the world. To find out what we are currently listening to, please check out: www.dynamicmag.org.

Movies:

From classics such as Salt of the Earth, Reds, Harlan County USA, The Great Dictator, Modern Times to current cinema like: Pan's Labyrinth, Letters from Iwo Jima, Good Night and Good Luck, among many others!

Books:

Read our review of Naomi Klein's new book "The End of America" in the current issue of Dynamic at www.dynamicmag.org Some of them include: Das Kapital, The Communist Manifesto, Left Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder, Against War and Fascism, Reform or Revolution, Communist Councilman from Harlem, Rebel Girl, Ten Days that Shook the World, The Jungle, The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World, John Brown: The Cost of Freedom. To see our current recommendations and criticisms please go to: www.dynamicmag.org

Heroes:

We can never name all of the many people who help inspire us but some of them include: Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, V.I. Lenin, Rosa Luxembourg, Antonio Gramsci, W.E.B. Dubois, Martin Luther King Jr., Ho Chi Minh, Elizabeth Gurley Flyn, Helen Keller, Albert Einstein, Ben Davis, Claudia Jones, Paul Robeson, Pablo Neruda, Cesar Chavez, Henry Winston, and of course, everyone in the world struggling for progress, social justice, and equality.

My Blog

Check Out the YCL/Dynamic Blog!

Check out our new blog at http://dynamicmagazine.blogspot.com/ for commentary and news on current events, politics, art, music and more! Leave us your comments!
Posted by YCLUSA on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:57:00 PST

NEW ISSUE OF DYNAMIC OUT NOW!

Our Fall issue of Dynamic Magazine is out now!* Check out the article on the future of young workers in the US* Find out more about the YCL's recent trip to Cubawith the 38th Contingent of the Vencere...
Posted by YCLUSA on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:00:00 PST

¡¡NOCHE CUBANA WITH THE VENCEREMOS BRIGADE!!

¡¡NOCHE CUBANA WITH THE VENCEREMOS BRIGADE!!To celebrate our 38th annual trip and in defeating the U.S. government's attempts to prevent us from going to see Cuba with our own eyes, Join us for our:¡N...
Posted by YCLUSA on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 02:38:00 PST

Youth-Labor Solidarity Needed for Auto-Workers

The United Autoworkers Union (UAW) is on strike against General Motors. These workers are fighting for all us, helping maintain a higher standard for overall worker wages and benefits. We need to do e...
Posted by YCLUSA on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 03:11:00 PST

Join the YCL and NYSPC for the Oct. 27th Anti-War Marches

MARCH WITH THE NATIONAL YOUTH AND STUDENT PEACE COALITION TO DEMAND AN END TO THE WAR IN IRAQ!Youth and students took to the ballot box in 2006 to demand a change. Two of the top issues on the minds o...
Posted by YCLUSA on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:49:00 PST

Intern With The YCL!

The YCL has an internship available this fall! You'll get to work with the staff in the New York office on many different exciting YCL projects like our elections campaign, production of our magazine ...
Posted by YCLUSA on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:06:00 PST

New Dynamic Out Now!

Check out the new Dynamic Magazine Issue "Sports and Sexuality" Issue. *Level the Playing Field: Sexuality and Professional Sports * Music: The Midwest Hip-Hop Revival * Working Class Heroes- Harvey ...
Posted by YCLUSA on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 09:41:00 PST

Cuba Interview on PA Radio

Hear the National Coordinator of the YCLUSA, Erica Smiley, talk about her recent trip to Cuba with the 38th Contingent of the Venceremos Brigade on Episode 34 of PA Radio...
Posted by YCLUSA on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:44:00 PST

CPUSA and YCLUSA: 90 Years of History

The Communist Party traces its origins to the militant labor struggles of the early years of the twentieth-century. It was forged by the industrial union movement of the 1910s, opposition to World War...
Posted by YCLUSA on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:38:00 PST

CPUSA Statement

Issues concerning recent emails/statements by Alan Maki The Communist Party, USA is taking the unusual step of issuing this statement because of a barrage of recent emails and public statements by...
Posted by YCLUSA on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:34:00 PST