Black August: A Commitment to Anti-Colonial Resistance
Speeches from the Protect Trans Youth Coalition’s Rally and Lobbying Effort at the New York State Capitol Building
The following short speeches are transcribed from video taken at the Protect Trans Youth Coalition’s rally and lobbying effort on June 9th, 2025. The speeches are arranged in speaking order. For an overview of the formation of the Trans Youth Coalition, their organizational composition, and their work, including the events of that trip to Albany, keep an eye out for an incoming article in the People’s World.
For Queer Liberation this Pride 2025!
Corporations and even some federal agencies and lawmakers have shown that they cannot or will not stand up to Trump's attacks on the queer and trans communities. Trans people in particular have become subject to increased scrutiny, harassment, and exclusion.
The New York YCL stands with its LGBTQ+ comrades in the militant struggle for queer liberation, an essential aspect of the fight for democracy against this new onslaught of fascist violence and repression.
PRESS RELEASE: Protect Trans Youth! Stop Bills S460 and A8239
ALBANY, New York – The Young Communist League, in a growing coalition with Act Up and New Alternatives will be holding a day of action on Monday, June 9th at the New York State Capitol to ensure transphobic bills S460, also known as the Rhoads bill, and A8239, also known as the Mikulin bill, do not progress any further in the New York State Legislature. We will be holding a rally at the State Capitol on the outside steps with speakers consisting of impacted children – as well as members from Act Up, New Alternatives, the Young Communist League and other progressive groups – as well as public figures…
Young Communist League’s ‘No Exit’: Invoking the radical possibilities of existentialism
Sartre defended existentialism as an optimistic and humanist methodology that might actually complement Marxist theory.
Armed with Paul Bowles’s theatrical translation and a bust of Lenin for a prop, the New York Young Communist League (YCL) is reinvigorating Jean-Paul Sartre’s most renowned play with a distinctly red subtext.
77 Years of Al-Nakba
For the last 2 years the crimes of Zionism have intensified into an accelerated genocide, characterized by the Zionist entity’s targeted destruction of Gaza’s healthcare facilities, their blockage of humanitarian aid, their routine massacres of civilians, their mass sexual violence, and their systemic assassinations of journalists, medics, and aid workers.
Today we reaffirm our commitment, as the NY-YCL, to struggle against every empire, settler-colony, capitalist state, and enemy of the masses of exploited peoples.
The NY-YCL stands with Mahmoud Khalil!
The Trump administration’s repression of Mahmoud Khalil and the student movement comes in response to the strengthening of our popular anti-fascist and anti-colonial movement. This fascist blitzkrieg intends to interrupt our momentum with reactionary terror in an attempt to paralyze us with fear.
The New York Young Communist League asserts that we will not be moved, and that we will continue to stand with other youth movements in the fight for the freedom of Mahmoud Khalil and his homeland in Palestine. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
Temporary Ceasefire Announced!
After 15 months of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the New York Young Communist League celebrates the incoming temporary ceasefire deal, and the victory of the Palestinian people over Zionist aggression, as well as the accomplishments of solidarity movements around the world.
Young Communists Travel to DC for the People’s March
The New York Young Communist League traveled to DC to march in the People’s March with other YCL districts, CPUSA Clubs, and thousands of others to stand in unity against injustice and fight for a better future. We came together to send a clear message: we will always be here to fight against fascism and demand a world where the people—not the corporations—decide what comes next.