Connolly Youth Movement

The Connolly Youth Movement or CYM, is an all-Ireland youth organisation affiliated to the Communist Party of Ireland and the World Federation of Democratic Youth. CYM is based on marxism and the political thought of revolutionary James Connolly, from whom the CYM gets its name.

The CYM was founded in 1963 by young republicans who became influenced by the Communist Party during the Dublin Housing Action struggle. The CYM later amalagmated with the Nothern Ireland Young Communist League thus becoming an all-Ireland group.

The CYM still exists today and publishes the quarterly Forward! magazine. It continues struggle for peace, unity, national independance and international socialism. It has good relations with a number of young communist organisations around especially the Young Communist League of Britain and the USA.