The celebration included awarding of prizes for an annual arts and writing competition, a youth panel, African drumming, and a keynote from the YCL.
Issues such as economic inequality, poverty, environmental degradation, and basic civil rights violations affecting local residents were central discussion topics.
To confront MAGA's reactionary and aggressively imperialist agenda, a stronger YCL is needed in the fight for peace, democracy, and socialism.
With Trump's election, the international workers' movement will likely enter a new era of increased class struggle, but the world Communist movement continues to grow.
In the 2024 presidential election, youth voter turnout (ages 18–29) dropped significantly to 42%, a steep decline from over 50% in 2020, according to CIRCLE’s report on The Youth...