Young Communist League of Canada
The Young Communist League of Canada (YCL-LJC) is a Canadian Marxist–Leninist youth organization founded in 1922. The organization is ideologically aligned with, but organizationally independent from, the Communist Party of Canada. The organization's members played a leading role in the On-to-Ottawa Trek and made up a significant portion of the Mackenzie–Papineau Battalion, which fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War.
Strikers from unemployment relief camps climbing on boxcars in Kamloops, British Columbia
A delegation from the YCL travelled to North Vietnam to interview Ho Chi Minh.[when?]
Communist Party of Canada
The Communist Party of Canada is a federal political party in Canada. Founded in 1921 under conditions of illegality, it is the second oldest active political party in Canada, after the Liberal Party of Canada. Although it does not currently have any parliamentary representation, the party's candidates have previously been elected to the House of Commons, the Ontario legislature, the Manitoba legislature, and various municipal governments across the country.
Jack MacDonald is escorted away by police after a failed attempt to hold a free speech rally in Queen's Park, Toronto, 1929.
A member of the CPC's Toronto club is arrested for distributing party literature, August 12, 1929.
Strikers of the On-to-Ottawa Trek
Dr. Norman Bethune in China, 1938