Young Socialists Switzerland
| Young Socialists Switzerland | |
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| Establishment date: | 1906 |
| Ideology: |
Social Democracy , Democratic Socialism |
| Presidium: | Ronja Jansen |
| Secretary General: | Muriel Günther, Mathilde Mottet |
| Members: | approx. 3600 (as of 2019) |
| National Council: | 5 |
| Party structure: | 47 sections (as of 2016) |
| Home address: | Theaterplatz 4 3011 Bern |
| Website: | www.juso.ch |
The Young Socialists Switzerland (short: Juso , or proper spelling : JUSO Young Socialists Switzerland ; French Jeunesse Socialiste Suisse , Italian Gioventù Socialista Svizzera , Romansh Giuventetgna Socialista svizra ) is the young party of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP). Despite its ties to the SP, JUSO is independent and determines how it gets involved politically. At the same time she tries to influence the political orientation of the SP. She sees her position in the union-oriented left wing of social democracy . The sections of JUSO Switzerland have a high degree of autonomy vis-à-vis the parent party, which is also due to the federal structure of Switzerland.
The name Young Socialists Switzerland is spelled by the party with the so-called gender star , which is supposed to represent gender equality inside and outside the binary gender system.
Positions
JUSO calls for a solidary society in which everyone has equal opportunities, regardless of personal background such as skin color, gender and origin. For this it is officially committed to the "overcoming of capitalism" and for "democratic socialism". It traditionally pursues this goal through its commitment to the democratization of the economy and distribution policy and regulatory initiatives such as the 1:12 and the speculation freeze initiative. She also campaigns against rayon and exit bans . In the summer of 2008, the Young Party called on the organizers of botellones to disregard the bans issued by cities like Bern.
The JUSO has a critical to negative attitude towards the army, which is expressed, for example, by participating in the referendum against the procurement of new combat aircraft . She is committed to climate protection and calls for nuclear energy to be phased out.
In education policy, the JUSO calls for the abolition of grades, which should be replaced by “qualitative assessments”. She also calls for an increase in the teaching staff, as she hopes that this will provide better learning conditions for students. Your educational paper also calls for a minimum wage for learners; Scholarships should be standardized nationally and at least guarantee the subsistence level.
organization
The JUSO is registered as a permanent youth organization in the statutes of the SP Switzerland, but is organizationally independent. It is organized in cantonal sections and subsections. Statutory organs of JUSO are the delegate assemblies, which are convened at least four times a year, the annual assembly, which has the main competence to elect the management and the presidium, and the management with the presidium itself. The management is made up of nine people, administrative tasks are handled by the central secretariat. Important decisions (e.g. position papers and resolutions) are generally made by a delegate or annual meeting.
The JUSO is part of the international labor movement and the worldwide socialist youth movement and is therefore united with its sister organizations in the International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY). Since Switzerland is not a member of the EU, the Swiss JUSO were only an associated member of the Young European Socialists (YES) for a long time . At the beginning of November 2012, after a brief discussion, the youth organization was granted full membership.
history
Predecessor groupings 1900–1971
The first historically documented establishment of a socialist youth group took place with the "Young Socialists" in Lucerne in 1894. Two similar groups were then founded in Bern and Basel, but they were unsuccessful due to a lack of members. In Zurich, on March 25, 1900, some young men founded the "Association of Like-Minded Young Workers for the Purpose of Instruction and Friendship" (young boys). In 1906 the Young Socialists formed the “Association of Swiss Young Boys”, the real pioneer of the Young Socialists in Switzerland. The organization grew rapidly and founded sections in many places in German-speaking Switzerland, in which it promoted and trained the members.
Willi Munzenberg played a central role in the social democratic youth movement when he became the first federal secretary of the young socialists in Bern. In Zurich, the young boys met in the “Pockenhüsli” in Aussersihl, where, in addition to the young boys, political emigrants also met. From 1911, women were also able to join the organization for the first time, which is why the young boys re-founded the “Social Democratic Youth Organization in Switzerland”. In 1913 the organization had around 750 members, in 1917 there were 5,000 members, around a fifth of them girls. In the interwar period, the Social Democratic Party split off and founded the Communist Party. When the Communist Youth International was founded in 1919, the social democratic youth organization joined it and changed its name to «Communist Youth Association of Switzerland (KJV)». The social democratic youth organization only resumed its work in 1922, when the “Federazione Giovanile Socialista Ticinese” was founded in Ticino. She campaigned in the Italian-speaking part of the country against the emerging Italian fascism.
At the beginning of the 1950s, the socialist youth was renamed the "Social Democratic Youth (SDJ)". During the 1950s, the SDJ had around 1,200 members and published the newspaper “New Switzerland” six to twelve times a year. In 1946 the SDJ joined the newly formed International Union of Socialist Youth . The SDJ named the situation of apprentices and young workers as a central topic. She advocated the forty-hour week and three weeks of paid vacation for apprentices. Furthermore, the organization occupied itself with the education of the members and was involved in the youth parliaments of the big cities. In 1961 the "Association of Young Social Democrats (VJS)" was founded, which arose from the social democratic parliamentary groups in the youth parliaments. It replaced the SDJ as the SP's official youth organization, but it all but dissolved in the early 1970s.
Foundation of the Young Socialist Party
The later National Councilor Andreas Gross was not involved in the reconstruction and founding of the “Swiss Young Socialists” in 1971 . The first president was the later well-known Zurich business lawyer Peter Nobel in 1971 . Andi Gross became involved with the Zurich Jusos from 1974 and only from 1977 on the Swiss level for the Jusos, first as editor of the newly launched “Infrared”, then on the board and from 1979 to 1983 as Juso President. During this time, the idea of a “Switzerland without an army” was developed and first made public in 1981. This idea was then decoupled from the Jusos and a separate organization, the GSoA, was founded in 1982 to launch the corresponding popular initiative. Gross was replaced in 1983 by a three-person co-presidium. Its current structures are largely from the "year of the new Juso" 1991: The board of directors at that time and the co-presidium were replaced by a management team that was responsible for the media / advertising, international affairs, contacts with the SP Switzerland, finance, education and domestic contacts includes. Juso finances its activities from contributions from the SP, federal subsidies and membership fees.
Towards the middle of the 1990s, the conflict between the individual sections that were occupied between the reformist and Marxist wings intensified. The 1993 annual report states: “Both groups worked and each worked on a policy paper which should do justice to their positions. The two papers were presented and discussed to interested JUSOs at a conference. Backgrounds were pointed out and middle ground sought. Finding this turned out to be increasingly unlikely. " At an extraordinary annual meeting, the Young Socialists decided in favor of the “reformist paper”, whereupon some members of the management resigned.
In the 1999 National Council elections , Juso ran for the first time in ten cantons with its own lists and places on the SP election lists. The candidacy of Jean Ziegler from Geneva on the list of Juso Zurich, who ran for the first time with its own list, made headlines across the country. Ursula Wyss from Bern was the first Juso representative to enter the National Council on October 24, 1999.
Reintroduction of the Presidium
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At the beginning of the 21st century, as the disputes within the party were settled, their style changed. The Young Party became more professional and achieved political success. In May 2007, the Glarner Landsgemeinde approved the Juso application to reduce the voting age to 16. At the 2007 annual meeting, the Young Socialists decided to introduce a presidium, whereupon Cédric Wermuth was elected party president. With the election of the new management, an “Agenda 2011” was formulated with the aim of making JUSO the strongest young party. In addition, further sections were created in several cantons. The Young Socialists got more and more into the media again, be it through positions and actions on current issues, but also through discrepancies with their parent party: For example, the Young Party criticized the SP's security paper, which in particular provided for begging and district bans and video surveillance. The differences could not be resolved, but many of the criticized points were changed. At the same party congress of the SP Switzerland Cedric Wermuth was elected to the Vice Presidium of the SP. The party also drew attention to itself by smoking a joint of vermouth at the party convention of the SP, by squatting the Aargau section or by a large demonstration against variable wage components ("bonuses") in front of the UBS on Paradeplatz in Zurich.
During Wermuth's term of office, the number of members rose from 1,500 to 3,000. On September 5, 2010, President Cédric Wermuth , Central Secretary Tanja Walliser and the two management board members Marco Kistler and Sebastian Dissler announced their resignations. The reason given by the management was that they wanted to achieve a generation change. At the annual meeting of JUSO on March 12, 2011, David Roth was elected as Wermuth's successor, and Kristina Schüpbach took over the central secretariat. Florian Sieber and Meret Herger were elected as successors to Kistler and Dissler , the previous ones were re-elected. At the annual meeting of JUSO on March 17, 2012, the Presidium and the other members of the nine-person management were re-elected by the members for a further term. In addition, it was decided in the course of the year to launch a new federal popular initiative. The delegates at the delegates' meeting on May 19, 2013 in Frauenfeld spoke out in favor of an initiative which provides for a ban on speculation with food.
On March 16, 2014 Fabian Molina was elected to succeed David Roth . During his presidency in 2015, JUSO carried out a campaign for more rights for apprentices and held a referendum against the new intelligence service law passed by parliament. The referendum was submitted on January 14, 2016 with 56,055 valid signatures. He also successfully brought the food speculation stop initiative to a vote.
Also at the 2014 annual meeting, the management proposed a change in the gender quota in the management due to a male majority. The reduction of the quota from 50% to a third was rejected by the grassroots after heated discussion. As a result, Florian Vock, as a male member of the executive board, had to leave the executive board with the fewest votes. Andrea Scheck was elected as his successor in May 2014.
In 2014, François Clement was elected as the new Vice Central Secretary, and instead of an initiative, a campaign on the subject of learners was decided as a project for 2015.
In 2016 Tamara Funicello was elected President of JUSO. She resigned from office at the end of August 2019. Since then, JUSO has been chaired by Ronja Jansen .
Initiatives
The 1:12 initiative
On October 6, 2009, JUSO Switzerland launched the 1:12 initiative under the presidency of Cédric Wermuth . The initiative was able to prevail against other proposals at the regular party congress in March 2009. The referendum, which was officially launched on October 6, 2009, provided for a limitation of the wage gap, in which the lowest and highest wages within a company could not differ by more than twelve times. Around 130,000 signatures were collected for the initiative and submitted on March 21, 2011. The vote took place on November 24, 2013. The initiative was rejected by 65.3% no against 34.7% yes and by all stands.
The speculation stop initiative
At the delegates' meeting in spring 2012, the Young Socialists decided to collect the speculation stop initiative. This should in future prohibit financial institutions and asset managers from investing in financial instruments that relate to agricultural raw materials and food. The ban should also apply to the sale of so-called structured products. It is also required that the federal government campaigns against speculation in food internationally. JUSO makes those who speculate with food jointly responsible for hunger in the world. With this initiative they want to ban speculation in food in Switzerland. After the start of collecting in autumn 2012, it was submitted on March 24, 2014 under the direction of incumbent party president Fabian Molina with 116,000 certified signatures. The Swiss population voted on the initiative on February 28, 2016. This was rejected with 40.1% yes votes against 59.9% no votes. Only the cantons of Jura and Basel-Stadt accepted the initiative.
Well-known former members
- Willi Münzenberg (* 1889; † 1940)
- Peter Nobel (* 1945)
- Andreas Gross (* 1952)
- Ueli Leuenberger (* 1952)
- Stephan Klapproth (* 1958)
- Bastien Girod (* 1980)
See also
Web links
- juso.ch: Website of the Young Socialists
- Holdings: Swiss Social Democratic Youth Organization in the finding aids of the Swiss Social Archives
- Holdings: JUSO Zurich in the finding aids of the Swiss Social Archives
Individual evidence
- ↑ juso.ch: [1]
- ↑ news.ch: JUSO: Call to disregard the botellón ban , August 21, 2008
- ↑ juso.ch: Position paper "No to buying new fighter jets!" ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ juso.ch: Position paper on the army ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ juso.ch: Position paper «Fight climate change!» ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ juso.ch: Position paper on education ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Announcement from November 5, 2012 on 'juso.ch' about the recording ( memento of the original from January 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ [The oldest «Young Socialist»] in: Neue Luzerner Zeitung of July 21, 1999, page 32
- ^ Ziegler and Zurich. In: Der Bund of July 21, 1999, p. 11
- ↑ Ursula Wyss says goodbye in: Berner Zeitung of December 14, 2012
- ↑ tagesanzeiger.ch: Cédric Wermuth moves to Bern on September 5, 2010
- ↑ bk.admin.ch: Archive link ( Memento of the original from April 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ By Andreas Käsermann: The Juso men lever women out: The gossip about the quota. February 23, 2014, accessed July 6, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c Annual Report 2014 of JUSO Switzerland - Free Download PDF. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Tamara Funiciello is the new JUSO President: JUSO Switzerland. Retrieved on July 7, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Tamara Funiciello resigns. In: srf.ch . April 6, 2019, accessed April 6, 2019 .
- ↑ Juso: Ronja Jansen takes over the Presidency of Funiciello. In: watson.ch . August 31, 2019, accessed September 1, 2019 .
- ↑ juso.ch: 1:12 initiative submitted! ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , dated March 21, 2011
- ↑ Voting templates for November 24, 2013 ( Memento of the original from April 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on admin.ch
- ↑ 65.3 percent say no to the 1:12 initiative on Swiss radio and television , accessed on November 24, 2013
- ↑ http://www.blick.ch/news/schweiz/nahrmittelspekulation-juso-reich-initiative-gegen-spekulation-mit-nahrungsmittel-ein-id2748407.html , from March 24th, 2014
- ↑ [2]
