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High point of Young Communist history
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IT WAS so good to see members of the Young Communist League (YCL) pictured in Monday’s (August 3) Morning Star scaling the heights of Kinder Scout in Derbyshire to celebrate the famous Kinder Trespass 89 years ago. That trespass started the campaign for the rights of ordinary people to enjoy the British countryside.
One reason I am so pleased is that despite some elegant airbrushing of history it was the Young Communist League that organised the original trespass. More specifically, it was a large and active branch of the YCL from Cheetham in Mancester.
At the time most ramblers and hiking groups — mostly middle class — totally opposed such militant actions as proposed by the Manchester Young Communists and their leader Benny Rothman.
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