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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“It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
“I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.”
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)
“Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
“Forward the Light Brigade!”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)