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4 unusual facts about Socialist Youth


Doris Bures

She became a federal secretary of the Socialist Youth in 1980 and worked in a project with unemployed young people between 1985 and 1986.

Labour Party Young Socialists

The LPYS was the most successful of the youth sections of the Labour Party in the post war period, at one point having nearly 600 branches and attendances at its national conference of nearly 2000 in the mid-1980s, publishing a monthly newspaper Socialist Youth, during which time it was under the leadership of the Militant tendency.

Lars Gule

For a period he was active in Sosialistisk Valgforbunds Ungdom (which later became the Socialist Youth) and Sosialistisk Valgforbund, later the Socialist Left Party (SV), but he was never a member of the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist SUF (m–l) (later Rød Ungdom) or Workers' Communist Party (Arbeidernes kommunistparti (AKP (m–l)).

US Ivry

The club was founded in 1919 by Socialist Youth activists in the name of Union Sportive du Travail d'Ivry (USTI).



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Declan Bree

A member of Ireland's radical socialist youth organisation the Connolly Youth Movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he went on to become National Chairperson of the movement.

Jeff Ooi

This has caused public furore especially from the Muslim community because while Razali is a member of Jemaah Islah Malaysia (JIM), the organisation itself is a registered body and has a close tie with Ooi's party's youth wing, Penang DAP Socialist Youth (Dapsy).

Manuel Tagüeña

Before the Spanish Civil War, he was a member of the socialist youth and studied matemathics and physics at the Madrid University.

Stanisław Saks

He was also an active socialist and a journalist at the Robotnik weekly (1919-1926) and later a collaborator of the Association of Socialist Youth.

Swedish Social Democratic Youth League

In 2006, Anna Sjödin was re-elected Vice-President of the International Union of Socialist Youth Congress in Esbjerg.

Viviana Piñeiro

From a family with a long tradition in the socialism, she began her political life at the age of 12, since her link with the socialist youth activism in the city of Tacuarembó.

Walter Behrendt

From 1945-1947 he was chairman of the regional Socialist Youth for Dortmund, Lünen and Castrop-Rauxel.