The Young Communist League (YCL), established in 1921 and disbanded in 1988, was the name of the youth wing of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), itself disbanded in 1988.
An organization reprising the name Young Communist League (YCL) was established in 1991. It serves as the current youth wing of the Communist Party of Britain (CPB), an organisation that sees itself as the organizational successor to the Communist Party of Great Britain.
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“How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.”
—Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)
“In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)
“I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best—it’s all they’ll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money—provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don’t need it.”
—Peter De Vries (b. 1910)