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Challenge Magazine

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Challenge Magazine

@ChallengeYCL

Challenge is the publication of the Young Communist League of Britain since 1935! Providing the latest articles & more by Marxist-Leninist youth 🚩 @yclbritain

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Joined April 2020

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Mar 20, 2022
In a livestream last night, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy ordered the banning of the nation's 11 remaining left-wing opposition parties: "Opposition Platform - For Life, Sharij’s Party, Nashi, Opposition Bloc, Left Opposition, Union of Left Forces, Derzhava, (1/6)
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Feb 8, 2022
On this day in 1943, 17-year-old Lepa Radić was sentenced to death by hanging. 1/4
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Sep 2, 2024
Today, we honour Ho Chi Minh: anti-colonialist, leader of the Vietnamese Communist movement, and the driving force behind Vietnam’s victory over French colonial rule. 🕊️🇻🇳 (1/9)
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Feb 8, 2024
Today, we remember Yugoslavian Partisan and Communist, Lepa Radic, who was hanged by Nazi troops on this day in 1943, at the age of only seventeen. 🕊️ (1/8)
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Dec 25, 2022
As it's Christmas we thought we'd give an honourable mention to #GeorgeMichael who died on Christmas Day in 2016 ❤️🎄 In his youth George was a member of the Young Communist League of Britain @yclbritain under his original name, Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou. While not... (1/12)
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Jan 21, 2024
Today, on the centenary of his death, we fondly remember Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the first socialist nation, leader of the Bolshevik Party, and architect of the October Revolution. (1/7)
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Mar 20, 2022
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"Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, Socialist Party of Ukraine, the Socialists, and Volodymyr Saldo’s Bloc" Accusing the now-banned parties as being "pro-Russian", it appears that Zelenskyy has distorted the truth, with some of those parties being anti-war. (2/6)
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Mar 20, 2022
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Zelenskyy's exploitation of Martial Law has enabled him to bypass parliamentary procedures and subsequently ban any political opposition. Despite banning left-wing opposition, the nation's neo-Nazi groups continue to receive praise, honours, (5/6)
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Mar 23, 2022
The Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the 2nd largest party in Germany, has requested to parliament that Ernst Thalman's statue is melted down because of Putin's invasion of Ukraine. 1/3
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Jul 15, 2023
🔥🏠 “We know who said that, and where he fucking lives” - was Hellboy actor Ron Perlman's response to a Hollywood Executive discussing the studios’ negotiating strategy, where they reportedly said “The endgame is to allow things to drag on... (1/4)
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Mar 16, 2023
As the world’s largest and most important socialist state, the People’s Republic of China plays a vital role in advancing the balance of progressive forces worldwide. 🇨🇳 However, the greater the role China plays, the greater the slander, myth, and outright lies it attracts.
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Mar 16, 2023
Paris is currently in uproar 🔥🇫🇷 Amid masses of ongoing industrial action, French President Emmanuel Macron effectively pushed through a highly unpopular bill raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 years of age, in a subversion of democracy. (1/2)
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Mar 20, 2022
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Since 2015, the Communist Party of Ukraine (KPU) has been banned, with it's members facing severe repression. 2015 also saw the banning of communist symbols. (3/6)
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Mar 20, 2022
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The latest banning reflects a continuation of the Ukrianian government's anti-socialist and anti-communist stance. Portrayed by the West as a champion of 'free speech' and 'democracy', (4/6)