Challenge (Communist journal)

Challenge is the title of organisational publications of two separate communist groups.

Challenge masthead

The first is a magazine produced by the Young Communist League,[1][2] the youth wing of the Communist Party of Great Britain. The first issue was published in March 1935, and it has been produced intermittently ever since. In the mid-1970s while the YCL was influenced by youth trends, the publication was re-designed to give it a punk zine aesthetic.[3] When the Communist Party was re-established in 1988 as the Communist Party of Britain, the YCL published its magazine under the title Young Communist, however in 2000 it was renamed back to Challenge with issue №1 published in November/October that year. An online edition was launched in May 2020.

The aim of the journal is, according to the YCL, to cover

all the latest news and views of the YCL, as well as articles covering important international developments, working-class history, culture, different campaigns and struggles taking place in Britain and the rest of the world, as well as regular features such as the Back 2 Basics series (Marxist concepts made easy), the Industrial Diary, and Uncle Joe's Book at Bedtime (a review of some classic Marxist texts).

— "Challenge". Young Communist League. Archived from the original on 30 October 2008.

The other "Challenge" is the bi-weekly newspaper of the Progressive Labor Party, a transnational communist party based primarily in the United States (but also having several smaller branches in various places in Latin and South America, and laying claim to several very small cells in other select places around the world). Due to its rather large Spanish language readership, the PLP also produces parallel issues in Spanish (Desafio).

Neither publication is to be confused with the historical Challenge which was, in its day, a primary publication of the Young People's Socialist League back when it was associated with the Socialist Party of America (YPSL is now politically and organisationally separate from the SPA).

See also

References
  1. "Towards a Welsh Young Communist League!". Archived from the original on 29 March 2003. Retrieved 13 September 2012.
  2. Frost, Peter (2 May 2018). "Real anti-Semitism" (PDF). The Guardian (1820). Sydney. p. 12. She had come across the YCL in Kilburn High Road at one of those very meetings. She bought their magazine Challenge, liked what she read, and sent off the membership form.
  3. Worley, Matthew (September 2012). "Shot By Both Sides: Punk, Politics and the End of 'Consensus'". Contemporary British History. 26 (3): 337. doi:10.1080/13619462.2012.703013. ISSN 1743-7997.
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