International Union of Socialist Youth

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Basic data
Chair: Johanna Ortega (JPS Paraguay)
Secretary General: Ana Pirtskhalava (YS Georgia)
Seat: Vienna
Members: 129 full member associations,
25 observing member associations
(February 2010)
Website: www.iusy.org

The International Union of Socialist Youth ( IUSY , German: International Union of Socialist Youth ; formerly: Socialist Youth International ) is the union of socialist and social democratic youth organizations from more than 100 countries around the world. The IUSY belongs to the Socialist International .

Member organizations in German-speaking countries are the Jusos in the SPD , the Socialist Youth of Germany - Die Falken , the Socialist Youth of Austria (SJÖ), the Association of Socialist Students of Austria (VSStÖ) and the Young Socialists Switzerland .

IUSY President has been Johanna Ortega (JPS Paraguay) since February 2018, Secretary General Ana Pirtskhalava (YS Georgia). Mia Thiel from the German Jusos and Matthias Krainz for the Socialist Youth Austria are two of the 18 vice-presidents.

history

On August 24, 1907, the International Association of Socialist Youth Organizations was founded in Stuttgart as part of the International Socialist Congress . The South German Association of Young Workers in Germany had invited . 20 delegates from 10 European countries and one Australian took part in the congress. Karl Liebknecht was elected first chairman and Hendrik de Man (Belgium) became first secretary. The seat of the rather loose association became Vienna .

The split in the labor movement in the course of the First World War did not stop at the youth organizations. In 1919 the International of the Communist Youth was founded in Berlin , in 1921 the International Working Group of Socialist Youth Organization in Vienna and also in 1921 the social democratic International of the Working Youth in Amsterdam . The latter two united in 1923 in Hamburg to form the International of the Socialist Youth , based in Berlin. Piet Voogt (Netherlands) and Leopold Thaller (Austria) were elected chairmen, Erich Ollenhauer secretary of the organization - a position he held until the Second World War .

After the end of the war, on September 30, 1946, delegates from 22 youth organizations met in Paris to found the International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY) . Bob Molenaar (Netherlands) was elected Chair and Per Haekkerup (Denmark) General Secretary. Initially Copenhagen was the seat of IUSY, in 1954 it was moved to Vienna .

By standing up against colonialism and working with liberation movements from Asia, Africa and Latin America, IUSY managed to develop from an initially almost exclusively European organization into a real world organization. In 1954 the Indian Nath Pai was the first non-European to be elected chairman of the IUSY.

In 1968 it became known that the IUSY for propaganda against communism since the 1950s was funded by the CIA. This sparked a wave of discussion and resignations within the Union.

In 1993 the association received the special consultative status in the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations .

Member organizations

Africa

  • Algeria - Jeunesse du Front des Forces Socialistes
  • Angola - Juventude do Partido MPLA
  • Botswana - Botswana National Front Youth League
  • Ivory Coast - Jeunesse du Front Populaire Ivoirien
  • Gabon - Union des Jeunesses Joseph Rendjambe
  • Gambia - Youth of the United Democratic Party
  • Cameroon - Social Democratic Front - Youth
  • Cape Verde - Juventude do Partido Africano da Independencia de Cabo Verde
  • Mali - Jeunesse ADEMA / PASJ
  • Morocco - Shabibet Ittihadia
  • Mozambique - FRELIMO-Youth
  • Niger - Organization de Jeunesse du Taraya
  • Senegal - Mouvement National des Jeunesses Socialistes
  • South Africa - African National Congress Youth League
  • Swaziland - Swaziland Youth Congress
  • Western Sahara - UJSARIO

America

  • Argentina - Franja Morada, Juventud Partido Socialista, Juventud Radical
  • Barbados - League of Young Socialists of the Barbados Labor Party
  • Bolivia - Juventud del Movimiento de la Izquierda Revolucionaria, Juventud Movimiento Bolivia Libre
  • Brazil - Juventude Socialista PDT
  • Chile - Juventud del Partido por la Democracia, Juventud Radical Socialdemócrata de Chile, Juventud Socialista de Chile
  • Costa Rica - Juventud Liberacionista
  • Curacao - Movementu Antiyas Nobo
  • Dominican Republic - Juventud Revolucionaria Dominicana
  • Ecuador - Juventud de Izquierda Democrática
  • Honduras - Juventud Pinuista
  • Jamaica - People's National Party Youth Organization
  • Canada - New Democratic Youth of Canada
  • Colombia - Organización Nacional de Juventudes Liberales
  • Mexico - Juventud Demócrata PRD
  • Nicaragua - Juventud Sandinista 19 de Julio
  • Panama - Frente de la Juventud del PRD
  • Paraguay - Juventud Revolucionaria Febrerista
  • Peru - Juventud Aprista Peruana
  • Puerto Rico - Juventud del PIP
  • Uruguay - Juventud Nuevo Espacio, Juventud Socialista del Uruguay
  • USA - Young Democratic Socialists
  • Venezuela - Juventud de Acción Democrática

Asia

  • Bhutan - Youth Organization of Bhutan
  • India - Rashtra Seva Dal, Yuva Janata Dal (Secular)
  • Israel - Mishmeret Tse'irah schel Mifleget haAwoda, Tse'irei Meretz-Jahad
  • Japan - Shakai Minshutō - Youth Bureau, Young Japanese Socialists
  • Lebanon - Progressive Youth Organization
  • Malaysia - Democratic Action Party Socialist Youth
  • Mongolia - Mongolian Democratic Socialist Youth Union
  • Nepal - Nepal Students Union, Nepal Tarun Dal
  • Palestine - Shabibet Fatah
  • Philippines - Akbayan Youth

Europe

Oceania

Observing members

  • Argentina - Youth of the Frente Grande
  • Benin - Youth of the Social Democratic Party ( Jeunesse Parti Social Democrate )
  • Benin - ASD Youth ( Jeunesse ASD )
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina - The SNSD Youth League
  • Burkina Faso - Youth of the Party for Democracy and Progress / Socialist Party ( Jeunesse du Parti pour la Democratie et le Progresse / Parti Socialiste )
  • Burma - All-Burmese League of Students
  • Tibet - Tibetan Congress of Youth
  • Colombia - Youth of the Liberal Party of Colombia
  • Guyana - People's Labor Alliance of Youth
  • Cyprus - Democratic Movement for Cypriot Students (AGONAS)
  • Equatorial Guinea - Convergence for Social Democracy ( Convergencia para la Democracia Social )
  • Eritrea - National Union of Eritrean Youth and Students
  • Guinea-Bissau - African Youth of Amílcar Cabral ( Juventude Africana Amílcar Cabral )
  • Mali - Union of the Youth Rally for Mali ( Union de la Jeunesse Rassemblement Pour le Mali )
  • Montenegro - Social Democratic Youth of Montenegro (Socijaldemokratska omladina Crne Gore)
  • Great Britain - SDLP Youth
  • Palestine - General Union of Palestinian Students
  • Russia - Russian Social Democratic Union of Youth (RSDUY, RSDSM)
  • Serbia - League of Social Democratic Youth of Vojvodina (Lige Socijaldemokratske Vojvođanske Omladine)
  • Turkey - Democratic People's Party (DEHAP)
  • Uganda - Young Democrats
  • Ukraine - The Social Democratic Perspective
  • Ukraine - Union of Young Social Democrats (SMS)
  • Venezuela - Youth of the Movement on Socialism ( Juventud del Movimiento al Socialismo )

Current presidium

  • President: Johanna Ortega (JPS, Paraguay)
  • General Secretary: Ana Pirtskhalava (YS, Georgia)
  • Vice Presidents: Minetu Larabas Sueidat (UJSARIO, Western Sahara); Hend Mgaieth (JSD, Tunisia); Amed Tiendrebeogo (UNJ-MPP, Burkina Faso); Benedicta Lasi (NDC, Ghana); José Julio Gómez (JRM, Dominican Republic); Rodrigo Munoz Baeza (JS, Chile); Agustina Rodríguez Biasone (JS, Argentina); Justine Raphael Luis C. Balane (AY, Philippines); Madan Bhandari (NSU, Nepal); Omar Anguita Pérez (JSE, Spain); Caterina Cerroni (GD, Italy); Mia Thiel (Jusos, Germany); Ingrid Endrerud (AUF, Norway); Matthias Krainz (SJ, Austria); Nikola Pesic (DPS Youth Forum, Montenegro); Andrea Törnestam (SSU, Sweden); Noa Neumark (YM, Israel); Ghassan Gharzeddine (PYO, Lebanon)
  • Participants in the meetings without voting rights are: IUSY Control Commission President Roland Gúr; YES President Alícia Homs Ginel

List of IUSY chairs

IUSY congresses

The world congresses take place every two years. The presidium is elected here every time. In the intervening years, smaller committees ( World Council ) take place to advise the Presidium.

International youth meetings

The major international youth meetings, at which up to 50,000 young people met (1929 in Vienna), were already the focus of activities in the previous organizations of the IUSY. In 1952, this tradition was resumed with the IUSY Camp in Vienna, which - with an interruption in the 1970s - is continued as the International Socialist Youth Meeting or IUSY World Festival and reaches several thousand young people each time.

The IUSY World Festival 2011 at the Attersee was marked by the memory of the comrades murdered in the attack on the summer camp of the Norwegian member organization AUF .

literature

  • Heinrich Eppe: The power of solidarity. 80 years of the Socialist Youth International . Ed .: Dirk Drijbooms. Vienna 1987.
  • Radomír Luža : History of the International Socialist Youth Movement . AW Slithoff, Leyden 1970

Web links

Commons : International Union of Socialist Youth  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Dead rats . In: Der Spiegel . No. 31 , 1968 ( online ).
  2. ^ Judith Klose: The history of the socialist youth international. (PDF; 2.3 MB) (No longer available online.) In: IUSY World Festival 2011 (Arguments 2011/2). Federal Association of Young Socialists in the SPD at the SPD party executive, 2011, p. 26 , archived from the original on February 13, 2017 ; Retrieved on February 12, 2017 : "In 1968, however, it became known that the IUSY had been financially supported by the CIA for propaganda purposes since the early 1950s."
  3. ^ List of non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council as of September 1, 2011 . (PDF; 338 kB) of April 5, 2013, p. 50; last accessed June 20, 2013
  4. Presidium. IUSY, accessed on August 23, 2020 .