''Challenge'' is the magazine of the

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, the

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of the

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. It was originally called ''Young Worker'', and then ''Young Communist'', before being re-established in 1935. The magazine 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

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(YPSL is now politically and organisationally separate from the SPA).

History

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. When the Communist Party was re-established in 1988 as the

, the 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 magazine was sold outside

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and

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, alongside the

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. In 1971, each issue sold around 9000 times, and there were 17000 copies of the

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edition.

Aims

The aim of the journal is, according to the , to cover ''Challenge'' aims to be the voice of Britain’s young communists reporting on the latest domestic and international news from a Marxist-Leninist and

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perspective.

References

External links

Challenge website
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History

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