#young communists

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"STUDENTS BURN AMERICAN FLAG," Kingston Whig Standard. June 02, 1933. Page . --- Young Self-styled Communists Caused Uprising at Amherst College ---- AMHERST, Mass., June 2 - The burning of the United States flag by a group of self-styled young Communists today brought about an investigation of student activities at Amherst College. The meeting of the self-styled radicals was broken up last night by a larger group of students. Three of the "Communists" were injured during the ensuing fight, but none required hospital treatment. Twenty Amherst freshmen held forth on Communism for an hour before about 100 classmates put them to flight. The 'Radicals" burned a small American flag to 'show their internationalism" during the meeting and sang the Internationale, the Communist anthem.

[accirax]

Happy Halloween, everybody! 🖤

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[stolos]

Y’know That one image of goth Ariel + Eric?

[thestuffedalligator]

The way the idea, the concept, the conspiracy theory that Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanov somehow survived her execution just fully embedded itself into the popular consciousness in the 20th century. This was a thing that was accepted as not only possible but probable to the point that it was adapted into an animated children’s musical, a Broadway show based on the animated children’s musical, and an adventure module for Pathfinder.

Anna Anderson was just a young woman with an unfortunate history of mental health issues, but she became part of this wild media circus and the centre of this century-long conspiracy theory because people just. Wanted it to be true. What was with our obsession with this idea. Why did we want it to be true.

[milfstalin]

there were THREE times where stalin crossdressed to get away from the cops. the first time worked which explained the attempt to do it again the second time. but why the third time... just wanted to do it...

[thereadingmoon]

he’s asking if you’re a communist, Robin.

[hippieelf]

Save me college-age Coach Beard. Save me

[enbysiriusblack]

severus: the problem isn't that you're gay. the problem is that you're a communist

remus: i'm not a communist...

[thefugitivesaint]

''Harper's Radar'', #132, Feb. 1999 Source

This made me laugh. It's the moustache. No baby is that well groomed.

[strawberryfaced]

FUCK I am missing wilmon again. I really really need to rewatch young royals but I don’t think I could handle it

[txttletale]

I'm considering joining a communist party but I'm maybe too young and not sure if I have enough experience or awareness of the current state of my country. I've also only read 3 of Marx's works so far and I don't know if that's enough. On one hand the experience might help me get a better grasp on politics, but I could also just not be taken seriously and waste time instead. What do you think?

do it. there is no level of political education which is necessary to join a party. if they laugh you out for not having read anti-duhring or whatever that's not a communist party, that's a snobby book club. any party worth their salt will be happy to have helping hands and any communist worth anything will be happy to teach you whatever you don't think you know. hell, even if the party turns out to be a glorified book club--you will develop a better understanding of whatever texts you have read talking their ideas through with other communists.

in the worst-case scenario, it can be a learning experience--if the organization is ineffective or dangerous, you will be better able to spot red flags for those things in the future. in the best-case scenario you will go from reading a couple of books to actually helping make change happen in the world. join a party!

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Work Among the Unemployed Youth!” Young Worker.  June 15th, 1931. Page 3. ---- By N. Freed ---- Work among the unemployed cannot be overestimated. The Unemployed situation in Canada has taken on a real mass character. We can expect a much worse situation this coming winter as employment is continually on the decline. Unemployment is the cause of the whole working class today. We cannot carry on work among the employed workers in the shop unless we win the confidence of the unemployed workers - both are very closely linked up. Any underestimation of this work is just as dangerous and wrong as the underestimation of the work among the employed workers. This work has not been given the fullest consideration by our league as a whole. There was no national program worked out for this field of activity, as a result each district carried on work of its own. About a year ago or so our approach to the work among the unemployed wrong was entirely wrong. We issued general slogans such as $25,00 for married men, $18.00 for single men young workers. This of course could not bring us any results. It was only when we started to develop our demands on a more concrete basis, such as meal tickets, bed tickets etc. that we were successful in many cases to rally and win the confidence of the workers. Then we had the task of linking this up with the major demands such as non-contributory state unemployment insurance campaign. In this district because of the fact that this was realized at the beginning of last winter we can record some very good achievements. The unemployed workers in Winnipeg fully realize that it was as a result of the leadership given by the party and league that they have received some "relief." 

The methods of "relief” on the part of the boss class in their division of single and married men makes it rather difficult to define the actual demands of the young workers as in the category of single men there are both young and adult workers. The amount of relief they receive and the provisions under which they receive it are identical. Because of this situation it makes it also difficult on the organizational field. You could not organize youth sections in the employed association, you would have to organize single men and married men. This of course is not advisable. This does not necessarily mean that there are no specific youth demands amongst the unemployed youth. There are for instance discrimination against young workers. If their fathers are receiving relief or they have dependents they are denied any kind of relief. Particularly is this true among the unemployed girls, The girls are forced to accept house work and farm work just for their meals and if they refuse this they are cut off entirely and given no relief.

It is very difficult to organize the unemployed girls particularly as they don't hang out in the slave markets, soup kitchens and very few of them go to the employment agencies.

Those girls that we did succeed in drawing into our ranks because of lack of attention and also be cause of the uninteresting meeting dropped out. This proves to us that we have to find more attractive means to keep young workers in our unemployed associations, such as sports, etc. The to get best way to keep unemployed workers both the youth and adult work unemployed associations The by proving to them that this organization is fighting for their immediate demands. In Winnipeg, for instance there are about 3,000 unemployed workers in this association. A great number of them are young workers. This is because the unemployed association is continually taking up the grievances of the unemployed with the city authorities. There is a special grievance apartment set up for this purpose.

The Relief assigned by the governments Federal, Provincial and Municipal was to be direct relief, but the authorities found that it was more profitable for them to create relief jobs of all kinds. Most of them being of a non-productive character under the pretense that direct relief would spoil the moral of the people.

Unemployed workers are being entirely forced to work several days a week for this so-called "relief". At the present time the number of days of work have been increased while the relief has been cut down to a minimum. The single men are being forced into soup kitchens and flop house The married men's allowances have been cut. The task of the unemployed organization is that of carrying on a struggle against the soup kitchens and also to develop strikes on these relief jobs.

The coming National convention of the league has one of its tasks to work out a concrete program of demands for the Unemployed Youth to nationalize the work, to find suitable forms of work in order to keep the unemployed young work in our organizations. This question has got to be given very close consideration. It is necessary to make a study of the number of unemployed youth in Canada. Today we find that about 50 per cent of the working youth in Canada are unemployed and a great number are part time. This field of work is a very fruitful field for our league and party and much more consideration must be given to this question.

N. FREED

“Activities Among the Young Miners,” Young Worker. June 15th, 1931. --- By J. Tr ---- The activities of the YCL among the young miners was not stressed much at the unit meetings of the Lethbridge Sub-district. When circulars in this respect were sent out by the DEC the comrades took the matter up followed by very little discussion or no discussion at all and passed up with the feeling that there wa not much more to be done. It has even been proven where members took very lule part in Trade Union meetings. There was not much done in get- contacts with young miners.

We find that under the present conditions it is very easy to get contacts through talking with individuals about their everyday grievances. We have tried to get contacts by holding socials but little was accomplished, due to the fact. that the young miners took no interest in these socials. Just lately we have found out that much better results be gotten through having all members trying individual contacts with their miner friends.

[controversialhottakes]

ohhh I got my first raging anon. I used to get raging anons before but this is the rambly kind that sounds like they might benefit from some serious therapy to learn to control their emotions.

either way thank you, because this genuinely made me chuckle a bit. but it's interesting how you clearly feel so strongly about this, and yet you don't have the balls to show us your username? don't you want your comrades to know who you are so you can come together and arrange a revolution or two?

That's not the correct order but I don't think it changes much to be honest lmao.

[alastaircarstairsdefenselawyer]

not simon leaving after wille's whole ass breakdown about how he hasn't gotten the support he's needed 😭😭😭 "love isn't supposed to be this hard" yeah you're also not supposed to lose your older brother at 16 and instead of being given the time and resources to grieve, you're forced to prepare to lead a whole fucking country. but thems the breaks apparently.

[miniatureketchupbottles]

season 3 has me rolling around on the floor pouring my guts on to the carpet

[stinkybreath]

I’m fucking scared and that sucks bc one I know a Kamala presidency wouldn’t have been great either so I feel stupid for being scared and two there are people who depend on me I have to be the strong one but I can’t right now I’m just really fucking scared I can’t pretend I’m not