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  Young Socialists - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Young Socialists is the name given to the youth sections of several socialist and social democratic political parties.
The Labour Party Young Socialists (LPYS) were renamed as such in 1965 to stress their relationship with the adult party.
"Young Socialists" is also the name of the youth organization of the Socialist Workers Party in the U.S. and theCommunist Leagues in a number of other countries, informally known as the Pathfinder Tendency.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Young_Socialists   (426 words)

  
 Young Socialists - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The national youth section of the British Labour Party was called the Young Socialists from 1960.
Initially it had a flourishing and democratic internal life dominated by competing Trotskyist tendencies but as with earlier Labour Party youth sections this life was gradually stifled as the youth were considerably to the left of the parent party.
Thereafter from 1970 onwards it was under the control of the Militant Tendency acheiving a highpoint of 581 branches in 1985.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Young_Socialists   (424 words)

  
 Post-Election Analysis from the Young Democratic Socialists (YDS) : Utah IMC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
As young democratic socialists we are proud to have been part of the broad-based struggle to defeat Bush.
There is hope in the fact that young voters were the only group to cast the majority of their votes against Bush.
There are many issues that confront young people and motivated them to vote, get involved in their communities and become engaged in the political process.
utah.indymedia.org /print.php?id=9661   (1249 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Young Socialists
Social democracy is a political ideology emerging in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from supporters of Marxism who believed that the transition to a socialist society could be achieved through democratic evolutionary rather than revolutionary means.
The Labour Party Young Socialists (LPYS) were established by the British Labour Party following the collapse of the earlier Young Socialists following the expulsion of the entryist Socialist Labour League (which became the Workers Revolutionary Party) in 1961.
The Socialist Workers Party is a small communist political party in the United States.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Young-Socialists   (987 words)

  
 Frances Curran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
She is a member of the Scottish Socialist Party, and the convenor of its International Committee.
She was formerly a member of the Labour Party while simultaneously denying her actual membership of the Militant Tendency, a separate political party oppearing covertly within Labour's ranks.
As a member of the Labour Party she served as Youth representative on the party's National Executive Committee as a representative of the Militant-dominated Labour Party Young Socialists in the early 1980s.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frances_Curran   (206 words)

  
 Ian Birchall: The Smallest Mass Party in the World 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
It is against the background of the growth of the CND that the decision by the Labour Party, in February 1960, to launch a new national youth movement, the Young Socialists, must be seen.
The typical political evolution of a young comrade at this time was as follows: first get involved in CND demonstrations, then join the Young Socialists, and, via Young Guard, come into IS. It was probably only after this that the comrade was persuaded of the importance of going to his union branch meeting.
Whereas a couple of years earlier the Young Socialists had been a place where young people could receive a first introduction to revolutionary politics, a Young Socialists meeting was now such as to frighten away for life any uninitiated youth who might happen to stray in by accident.
www.marxists.org /history/etol/revhist/otherdox/smp/smp1.html   (9687 words)

  
 Young Democratic Socialists Home
YDS is the youth section of the Democratic Socialists of America.
We are the only US members of the International Union of Socialist Youth, the largest political youth coalition in the world.
We are a broad, diverse network of young activists who share a vision of a more humane future.
www.ydsusa.org   (389 words)

  
 Socialism Today - Labour & the unions
Socialists, while opposing such undemocratic actions, in no way condone the bombers or oppose effective class measures which defend innocent Londoners or assuage their fears.
Socialists, on the other hand, believe that only by changing the system, introducing socialism through the method of the mass mobilisation of the working class, can a fundamental change be carried through.
The proposal of the Socialist Party at the STWC steering committee for this body to organise an emergency demonstration was turned down, with the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) leading the opposition.
www.socialismtoday.org /94/britain.html   (4810 words)

  
 Young Socialists in the SPD - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jungsozialistinnen und Jungsozialisten in der SPD (Young Socialists in the SPD) (generally called Jusos) is the youth organization of the German Social Democratic SPD party.
Generally far more left-wing in their approach to current events than their mother party, Jusos tend to criticise leading politicians whatever their affiliation.
They are decidedly socialist in the traditional sense of the word: in the 1990s there were even some Marxist factions.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jusos   (123 words)

  
 Young Socialists conference held at Coffman - MN Daily Online - 04/08/1996
The Young Socialists National Convention drew between 150 and 200 delegates from the United States, England, Sweden, Iceland, France and Canada.
A high point of the Young Socialists' weekend was the official launch of the Socialist Workers Party's 1996 election campaign Saturday night at the Holiday Inn Metrodome.
The Socialist Workers Party campaign was launched in conjunction with the Young Socialists convention.
www.mndaily.com /daily/1996/04/08/news/soclst   (511 words)

  
 Marxist Theory
What distinguishes socialists from other socially concerned people is that we do not view these problems as normal, natural, eternal, or an inherent feature of the human condition.
We cannot know what the socialist generations will decide to do, but the general lines of development we are able to forecast give us confidence in the wisdom of these decisions.
You need both ingredients in a socialist revolution: the highest level of consciousness possible, and the highest level of self-organization and self-activity by the broadest possible segment of the population.
www.geocities.com /mnsocialist/theory.html   (713 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Europe | French voters dump Chirac party
The socialists and their allies won 50% of the second-round votes, leaving Mr Chirac's centre-right governing UMP party trailing on 36.9%.
The socialists held eight councils and grabbed another 12 from the UMP.
Socialist party leader Francois Hollande says voters have expressed their rejection of both Mr Raffarin's government and Mr Chirac.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/3575779.stm   (425 words)

  
 The Militant - 3/31/97 -- Young Socialists Build Convention   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Young Socialists and communist workers of all ages are using the next two weeks to meet with young fighters interested in attending the convention and firming up plans for the trip to Atlanta.
Jack Willey, the organizer of the National Executive Committee of the Young Socialists, explained that one of the central themes of this convention will be the question of how the YS organizes itself.
Young Socialists in Seattle and Spokane, Washington, will be teaming up to hold a luau on Saturday, March 22.
www.themilitant.com /1997/6113/6113_2.html   (1027 words)

  
 Socialist Party International Socialist Resistance
For most working class young people the only jobs on offer are in low-paid, casual workplaces; fast food restaurants, call-centres etc. Neither do many have the option of continuing their education at either college or university after they leave school.
Socialist Students aims to both campaign on issues such as free education and to raise, discuss and spread the ideas of socialism amongst students.
Socialist Party youth and students are involved in the fight against racism and fascism through the YRE.
www.socialistparty.org.uk /CampaignsYouth.htm   (1960 words)

  
 Young socialists and social democrats: consolidation in the name of future
The Alliance was initiated by the Ukrainian Social Democratic Youth (USDM) and the Socialist Congress of Youth (SCY).
It should be mentioned that on January 12, 2002 the Congress of the Socialist Congress of Youth made a hard decision - to break off partner relations with the Socialist Party of Ukraine.
SDPU(U), the young socialists decided to enforce relations with the young social democrats (USDM), and as a result the Alliance appeared.
www.sdpuo.com /eng/news/sdpuu-news/3c74fd5d   (252 words)

  
 The Militant - 10/2/95 -- (Young Socialists Around The World)
Detroit Strike, Cuba Are Part Of Class Struggle
This column is written and edited by the Young Socialists, an international organization of young workers, students, and other youth fighting for socialism.
This was seen as dozens of young people stopped their normal Saturday night activities to come to the picket line and help to keep the paper from getting out.
Young workers and students went to Cuba to oppose the U.S. government's economic embargo against Cuba.
www.themilitant.com /1995/5936/5936_22.html   (947 words)

  
 The Militant - 11/17/97 -- `Looking To Join The Young Socialists,' Says   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
About a dozen young people who were not members of the YS attended the convention.
Prod'Homme, a high school student, participated together with a Young Socialists member in a lunchtime discussion group.
Young Socialist Kevin Austin found out that Sovran was doing a high school project on Fidel Castro's political history, and invited him to "check out some Pathfinder books." Sovran had scrounged his high school library and read The Communist Manifesto.
wwww.themilitant.com /1997/6140/6140_18.html   (619 words)

  
 Progressive, The: Words of Encouragement - a gathering of socialists includes many young people - Brief Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The gathering was sponsored by the Socialist Workers Party or, as some on the left would caustically call them, "the Trots." And about half of the 6,000 seemed to be trying to sell the party newspaper, Socialist Worker, to the other half.
The next days were filled with dozens and dozens of gatherings, with these young, eager people rushing from one to another, whether the subjects were topical (East Timor, global warming, Kosovo, blues and rock, the arms trade) or theoretical ("is there progress in history?"), or esoteric political economy ("the labor theory of value").
Take the young woman who was born in Vietnam and was transported to the United States at the age of two by her parents.
www.findarticles.com /cf_dls/m1295/9_63/55671580/p1/article.jhtml   (871 words)

  
 Young socialists choose a new strategic partner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
According to the Congress' delegates, the "divorce" between young socialists and their elder comrades came after it became evident that the Party had declared its support to the young socialists only to use them during the election campaign and forget about their problems afterwards.
The socialist youth had nothing to do but to look for a new strategic partner on the eve of the elections.
The Socialist Congress of Youth hopes that after the social democrats create a strong faction in the new Parliament, they will be able to bring social and youth problems on the top of the lawmakers' agenda.
www.sdpuo.com /eng/news/sdpuu-news/3c63a8bc   (331 words)

  
 Socialist Action   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Socialist Action is a nation-wide group of revolutionary socialists dedicated to fighting for a world where people come before profits.
As socialists we seek to learn and understand the theory of Marxism, but as an activist group, we also seek to put those ideas into practice.
The apparent sudden reversal of Marwan Barghouti, a Fatah leader jailed for life by the Zionist rulers, who has now allowed his relatives and supporters to register him as a candidate for president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), is a new upset in the tumultuous search for a successor to Yasir Arafat.
www.geocities.com /mnsocialist   (516 words)

  
 Socialists and the origins of Labour
Many of these new young socialists were discovering for the first time the writings of the previous generation of socialists who had formed the local and national leadership of the Chartism of the 1850s.
The eddies of socialist thinking that were developing within the working class movement by the late 1880s and the organisations which were growing with them were soon to be tested by the actions of workers themselves.
In June 1888 young women workers at the Bryant and May match factory in east London began a militant strike wave which was to electrify the working class movement and shake the confidence of the employers.
www.isj1text.ble.org.uk /pubs/isj87/obrien.htm   (9295 words)

  
 Chicago Socialist Party (CSP)
(David McReynolds, a member of the Socialist Party’s National Committee, was in Iraq in 1991 as part of a delegation from the Fellowship of Reconciliation, seeking possible ways of avoiding the first Gulf War.
The insurgents are a mixed group, some supporters of Saddam, some from the Sunni, some simply Iraqis fed up with the humiliation of being occupied, and a relatively few young men who have come into Iraq because this is their chance to fight what they see as the enemies of Islam.
*David McReynolds, a member of the Socialist Party USA, was in Iraq in 1991 as part of a delegation from the Fellowship of Reconciliation, seeking possible ways of avoiding the first Gulf War.
www.chicagosocialistparty.com   (1949 words)

  
 Tony Cliff: A World to Win (Introduction by Paul Foot)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
This issue may seem arcane, almost irrelevant in the 1990s, but to a young socialist at the beginning of the 1960s it was utterly crucial.
For those of us young socialists of the time to whom the theory was entirely new, the effect was the very opposite of transitory.
This is why the most fundamental issue of all is the building of a socialist organisation which takes its cue from the workers’ battles against their rulers, and can unite in disciplined action the resources not just of those who want to change the world but of those prepared to do something about it.
www.marxists.org /archive/cliff/works/2000/wtw/intro.htm   (2481 words)

  
 Young Democratic Socialists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Our mission is to educate and organize students and young people, and to play a helpful and principled role in the movement for social justice.
Within and throughout this struggle, we will articulate and defend the idea that true human liberation is impossible under capitalism.
All young people who want to work for a better world are welcome in YDS.
democratic-socialists.uchicago.edu /wherewestand.html   (199 words)

  
 About the Young Democratic Socialists of JMU
In just one short year, the Young Democratic Socialists of JMU grew to become the third-largest DSA Youth Section Chapter and the second largest political group on campus (eclipsing the College Democrats and the Young Libertarians).
ABOUT D.S.A. The Young Democratic Socialists of America is the youth affiliate of the Democratic Socialists of America.
The Democratic Socialists of America is the largest Socialist organization in America and is the U.S. affiliate (along with the Social Democrats) in the Socialist International.
www.jmu.edu /orgs/youngdemsoc/aboutus.htm   (790 words)

  
 SCOTLAND: SSY: giving voice to young socialists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
From its formation, the SSP was clear that the number of young people interested in the alternatives to the established parties and established politics was growing.
Young people around the world are radicalising around a range of issues and Scotland's not sheltered from it.
No-one goes to an anti-war demo to listen to three, five, seven different socialist factions go on about how much better the nuances of their program is than all the others.
www.greenleft.org.au /back/2003/545/545p19.htm   (963 words)

  
 Ian Birchall: From Theory to Practice (1975)
So the bureaucrats gritted their teeth and launched the Young Socialists-and moreover gave it a relatively liberal constitution.
At the very same time, since the opportunities for trade union work were very limited for most comrades, the Labour Party-and especially the Young Socialists-had been seen as a milieu where revolutionaries could operate, and make contact with at least some of the more class conscious workers who were around.
The IS Group rejects the Labour Party as an instrument for social change; rejects it as a milieu for mass conversion to socialist consciousness; and sees in it primarily an arena for ideological conflict, a link to a living working-class audience and a source of individual recruitment to a revolutionary programme.
www.marxists.de /intsoctend/birchall/theoprac.htm   (8696 words)

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