The International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY) encompasses socialist and social democratic youth organizations from more than 100 states of the world. IUSY is a member of the Socialist International.
The president of IUSY is Fikile Mbalula, from the South African ANC Youth League, and the general secretary is Enzo Amendola from the Italian Sinistra Giovanile .
History
In 1907, the International Union of Socialist Youth Organisations had been founded in Stuttgart. Its first president was Karl Liebknecht.
After the First World War the split of the worker's movement was also a split of the youth organisations. In 1919 the International of the Communist Youth was founded in Berlin. Two organisations founded in 1921, the International Working Group of Socialist Youth Organisation and the social democratic International of the Working Youth, merged as International of the Socialist Youth in 1923 in Hamburg.
After the Second World War, IUSY was founded on 30 September 1946 in Paris.
IUSY presidents
IUSY Congresses
International Youth Meetings
The international youth meetings with up to 50,000 participants (1929 in Vienna) are a important tradition of socialist youth organisations. In1952, IUSY reconvened this tradition with the first IUSY Camp in Vienna.
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