A "time and place" for Stalin-worship?
The Young Communist League (YCL) turned out in some numbers for the TUC’s “cost of living” demo on 18 June, all dressed up in black with oh-so-”militant” red bandanas and flags. This kind of posing has become standard practice for the YCL, but their chants were new: “One solution, revolution!” and “Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh! Che Guevara! Stalin!” These slogans were obviously intended to (1) promote the YCL’s self-image as ever-so-left-wing r-r-evolutionaries; (2) annoy the hated “Trots”; (3) direct a metaphorical two fingers at the adult Communist Party of Britain, whose contingent on the demo was...