Glasgow University Communist Society

The only Marxist Leninist Society at Glasgow University. Not one step back!

[Challenge Magazine @ChallengeYCL]

How OJ Simpson killed America

A celebrity trial and decades of ruling-class contempt, culminated in Trump's plundering of America, writes James Meechan. 🇺🇸🗽

https://t.co/lfPFzoapGW

[Challenge Magazine @ChallengeYCL]

Members from across @yclbritain
have been collaborating over the past months, building a new version of Back to Basics, the YCL's primer on all fundamental Marxist-Leninist concepts and theory.

While we wait for physical copies to be printed, we are excited to share this online version on the Challenge website for free.

We would once more like to thank all of the members who contributed to this text and proudly hold their efforts up as exemplary of our movement.

https://t.co/W9A3tmAReQ

[Challenge Magazine @ChallengeYCL]

Stop treating disabled people like imbeciles

Phill Kelly delves into the communist understanding of disability, and argues for the value of scientific nuance over postmodernism. ♿️🚩

https://t.co/DrDJLUfbvG

[Ghassan Abu Sitta, Chair of Conflict Medicine AUB @GhassanAbuSitt1]

The securitization of Glasgow University campus, the criminalization of righteous indignation at this genocide has reached unprecedented levels. In the early hours of Tuesday morning Israel killed 80 children in 51 minutes using weapons fully or partly manufactured by companies that the university holds shares in and is thus part owner of. Yet what is portrayed as pathological is the students' reaction to this moral outrage and not the complicitous position that the UK government has put the universities in.

@UofGlasgow management needs to step back and be on the right side of history as our students are.

[Ghassan Abu Sitta, Chair of Conflict Medicine AUB @GhassanAbuSitt1]

The criminalization of our students' righteous indignation at the genocide and UK complicity in it.

[UofG Student Solidarity Coalition @UofGsolidarity]

"This disproportionate and authoritarian response is in keeping with a concerted effort to crack down on student activism for Palestine on campuses around the globe.” — @GhassanAbuSitt1 https://t.co/mCmwjNVYMV

[Communist Party ☭ @CPBritain]

Next Sunday will see the @M_Star_Online Scotland Spring Conference at the @ScottishTUC in Glasgow. The conference will have three sessions on:

1. Gentrification & Housing
2. Fighting the rise of Reform
3. Funding for local Services

Register now 🔗 https://t.co/VFs9rrLDfE

[Communist Party ☭ @CPBritain]

Thank you to the hundreds who attended today’s packed Marx Oration to remember the thinker and the fighter who gave so much to our movement.

The past we inherit. The future we build.

More pictures and videos of the speeches to follow.

Long live Marx! Long live Marxism!

[UCU @ucu]

🚨 The University of Cambridge has failed at the High Court in its attempt to restrict pro-Palestine protest for five years.

This is a major victory for our democratic rights.

Our statement 👇

[Communist Party ☭ @CPBritain]

“A peace settlement is long overdue in Ukraine, so it’s time to stop the war and start the peace!”, Kevan Nelson declared on Tuesday evening (18 February 2025) following that day’s talks between the US and Russian governments.

“But it’s a bit rich for British and EU politicians to complain about their own exclusion from the Riyadh summit, when they have spent two years fueling the conflict instead of trying to initiate a peace process”, the Communist Party of Britain’s International Secretary told the CP Political Committee.

He hoped an agreement to keep Ukraine out of NATO would “end the 20-year long eastwards march of NATO and the EU to Russia’s western borders” and ridiculed Keir Starmer’s proposal for British troops to be stationed in Ukraine as peace-keepers.

“In recent years, British forces have bombed or invaded Afghanistan, Serbia, Kosovo, Iraq, Libya, Yemen and Syria in the name of peace, democracy and Western values”, Mr Nelson recalled, “while also aiding and abetting the Israeli mass extermination of defenceless Palestinian civilians in Gaza”.

Britain’s Communists reaffirmed their long-standing policy of withdrawal from NATO and their opposition to any further EU militarisation in alliance with the UK.

The CP Political Committee also rejected any increase in British military spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP as proposed by the Labour government, the Tory Opposition and military chiefs, or to the 5 per cent demanded by US President Donald Trump. 

If the Labour government has between £6bn and £60bn extra to spare, it should use a new peace dividend to defend millions of people against poverty, poor housing and ill health rather than waste a fresh war dividend on more nuclear warheads, submarines and bombers”, Mr Nelson suggested.

Warning against US and Russian attempts to carve up Ukraine’s rich natural resources, the CP Political Committee called upon President Zelensky to unban the Ukrainian Communist Party and restore trade union and democratic rights in that country. 

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[Glasgow University Communist Society @GUCommunists]

@swagkongen98 Apologies, we were unable to record the event but we will aim to do so for future events

[Glasgow University Communist Society @GUCommunists]

Join the Glasgow University Communist Society for an educational on Cyprus and the use of British bases as an imperialist launchpad.
Presented by Andreas Piperides, PhD Candidate in International Law at UofG.
We hope to see you there! 🚩 🇨🇾

[Glasgow University Communist Society @GUCommunists]

@swagkongen98 We’ll get back to you on this

[Glasgow University Communist Society @GUCommunists]

Thanks to everyone who made it to our event tonight. A really great presentation from Andreas regarding Britain’s role in Cyprus and its complicity in the Gaza genocide. Some solid discussion and questions from the audience too.

Hope to see you all at the next one!✊
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇾🚩

[Glasgow University Communist Society @GUCommunists]

Join the Glasgow University Communist Society for an educational on Cyprus and the use of British bases as an imperialist launchpad.
Presented by Andreas Piperides, PhD Candidate in International Law at UofG.
We hope to see you there! 🚩 🇨🇾

[Communist Party ☭ @CPBritain]

Peter Mandelson fits in just as well with Britain’s corrupt ruling class establishment as he does with the USA’s.

[Glasgow University Communist Society @GUCommunists]

Reminder for this tomorrow!! Hope to see many of you there 🚩

[Glasgow University Communist Society @GUCommunists]

Join the Glasgow University Communist Society for an educational on Cyprus and the use of British bases as an imperialist launchpad.
Presented by Andreas Piperides, PhD Candidate in International Law at UofG.
We hope to see you there! 🚩 🇨🇾

[Unity Books @unitybookshop]

Our first batch from @iskrabooks sold out fast! But we've restocked and got the collection online and in store. 📚

We've also just got their new books: The Journey of the Farmers' Rebellion in India, the Hampton Reader, and Stalin's Collected Works 3 & 4!

Check 'em out! ✊

[Communist Party ☭ @CPBritain]

Holocaust Memorial Day is observed globally on the 27th of January, marking the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp by soldiers of the Soviet Red Army in 1945.

Nazi-fascism, the ideology which unleashed the most costly war in human history, is the same force which planned and carried out the mass extermination of over 6 million Jews which we know today as the Holocaust.

Fascist death camps were also used in a coordinated campaign of slaughter against Roma, the disabled, ethnic minorities, members of the LGBT community, communists, socialists and trade unionists.

While these crimes are almost unimaginable in their scale and evil, they were not the product of one crazed individual. Fascist parties rose to power first in Italy then in Germany Spain and Japan, as a response of the ruling class in those countries to the advance of left and democratic forces.

Lenin explained that fascism is capitalism in decay. Unable to resolve its own contradictions, when confronted with crisis and the prospect of socialist change or even any erosion of their power, the ruling class will readily utilise fascist movements and an anti-democratic counterattack.

It should be remembered that it was banks and massive multinational corporations, including British ones, that guided the Nazi Party to power in Germany.

The fate of Germany’s Jews, minorities and democratic forces were of no consequence in their drive to retain power. Millions who were not tortured, gassed, beheaded or shot, were worked to death as slave labour for giant corporations like Siemens. The resistance and endurance of Jews and other minorities in the face of this horror is a testament to the indomitable will of working people.

The heroic and decisive role of the Soviet Union in ending the Holocaust and World War II, should serve as a clear lesson to those here in Britain and especially the European Union, who have the audacity to equate Nazi-fascism and Soviet Socialism.

We must oppose gross historical revisionism which is an insult to the memory of millions of Soviet wear dead and all those who ended the Holocaust.
In the current period capitalism is again faced with its own insoluble contradictions, stagnation and crisis.

Capitalism is once again giving rise to and supporting far right forces across Britain, Europe and the United States. The risk to the working peoples of the world, who are always the victims of fascism is clear.

Anti-Semitism remains a stain on society, sustained and propagated by ruling class controlled monopoly media and reactionary political forces.

But working people are not passive in the face of this threat. Working people are the real authors of history. Just as the people of Britain, and across the planet rose to defeat fascism in the last century, it is us who can prevent the crimes of the Holocaust from ever being repeated.

The elimination of anti-Semitism and all racist, xenophobic and divisive ideologies which Capitalism propagates and relies on is more important today than ever before. Working people united are invincible and only through unity can we take the road to Socialism.

Today we remember the countless ordinary people, victims of the Nazi death machine.

We remember the brave ordinary people who were the freedom fighters and the partisans.

In their memory, we say

No Pasaran!

Fascism will not pass!

[Living Rent @Living_Rent]

The climate crisis is only going to make storms like Storm Éowyn more frequent and dangerous. Homes and lives will be lost.

We must organise to keep each other safe.

If your landlord fails to repair your home before or after a storm, get in touch - your union has your back.

[YCL Glasgow @YCLGlasgow]

Today, hundreds of workers are being pressured to attend work despite the Red Weather Warning. Many are risking their lives for low-paying jobs, while those refusing to do so are at the threat of losing pay.

We will not tolerate employers that put profit over people.