The YCL actively joined in the anti-nuclear movement across Canada including Quebec. The League changed the name of its publication to Rebel Youth, following the Cuban revolutionary youth group by that name. At the same time, the Quebec body also began publishing its own French language magazine for youth. The 80s also saw renewal of YCL leadership in many areas, leading to a more open and active approach by the League to youth struggles. The YCL was able to make inroads in places like Alberta, renewing its organization through the student movement, and Nova Scotia as well as reinforce its efforts in Quebec. The YCL also supported the developments in El Salvador and Nicaragua, sending a delegation to help with the 1989 Nicaraguan coffee harvest. The YCL also sent a member on a fact-finding mission to Palestine about the situation in the Gaza strip. Several members also toured the Soviet Union, and the YCL organized for the 1985 and 1989 youth festivals in Moscow and Pyongyang, respectively. These were major expressions of friendship between the youth of the world as well as debate, with the ongoing developments and "changes" in the USSR that ripened into counter-revolution. But the late 1980s were also a time of growing political and ideological disagreement within the League over the new policies of the Soviet Union, with Glasnost and Perestroika. But they were also a time when the YCL began to fight for queer-rights and take a more militant pro-feminist standpoint. It supported linking the ecological or environmental movement's agenda with class politics. Its magazine, Rebel Youth, was active in critiquing and commenting on the Regan-Thatcher-Mulroney era that faced youth people and the economic insecurity that loomed with recession. In this context, the YCL elected a series of General Secretaries from across the country including British Columbia, Quebec, Alberta with background in labour, student, women and queer movements. Ten-year liquidation 1990 saw a major debate develop in the YCL around the changes in the international socialist movement that were taking place at that time. This had also lead to a deep crisis in the CPC that followed the counter-revolution or dissolution of the Soviet Union. The Communist Party of Canada began an internal debate which would latter be described as a struggle for control of the party or a bitter internal factional fight leading to a split. By the end of the split, the group