Youth and Students

Dynamic is the magazine of the Young Communist League USA. It includes art, politics, and culture written by youth, for youth.

The 2008 Spring Double issues includes articles about the youth impact on the 2008 elections, youth participation in unions, the writer's strike and its impact on a family that struggled through it, and much more!

We are indeed living through a historical moment of global shifts, bringing young people an almost inherent awareness of the world and how it affects us locally. Despite our obsessions with American Idol, P Diddy’s latest discovery, or (my personal favorite) the new Namibian “Brangelina”, today’s youth are connecting the dots faster than ever.

From the schoolhouse to the streets youth are under attack! Despite the best efforts of Bush and his extreme right wing gang, youth are fighting back. We can't defeat the ultra-right without a strong and vibrant youth movement. To do that we need a strong and vibrant Young Communist League. The YCL is the only organization out there that combines a strategy to fight back today and win for the long term!

If you turned on the TV on November 3rd CNN mentioned to you that young people showed up at the polls but it was nothing too impressive. They told you that while the numbers went up, so did all voter-turnout numbers and there was no significant shift or big change in how many young folks showed up as compared to the rest of the population. Some of them even went so far as to blame the youth for not turning out enough to impact the elections favorably for Kerry. But the numbers tell another story.

HARLEM, N.Y. "Drop the Rock, Drop the Rock, Drop the Rock!!!" was the mantra that resonated from 500+ angry voices on a blistery hot day at the Harlem State Office Building on June 15. The Drop the Rock Rally arose from a youth-driven movement in response to the unjust Rockefeller Drug Laws, which impose a 15-year mandatory prison sentence for anyone convicted of selling 2 ounces or possessing 4 ounces of a narcotic substance, without regard to the circumstances of the offense.

Political Affairs interviewed Ali Fischer, President of the United States Student Association's (USSA), on March 11, 2001 during the USSA's annual legislative conference and lobby day in Washington, DC.

After the crisis in the socialist world and the disillusionment in the student movement following the Gulf War, campus and high school movements went through a deep recession. The election of Clinton to the White House also made many organizations complacent. Cynicism ruled the youth movements during the 90s.