International Union of Socialist Youth
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Template:Socialism 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.
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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
- 1946 Bob Molenaar (Belgium)
- 1948 Peter Strasser (Austria)
- 1954 Nath Pai (India)
- 1960 Kyi Nyunt (Burma)
- 1966 Wilbert Perera (Ceylon)
- 1969 Luis A. Carello (Argentina)
- 1973 Raphael Albuquerque (Dominican Republic)
- 1973 Luis Ayala (Chile)
- 1975 Jerry Svensson (Sweden)
- 1977 Alejandro Montesino (Chile)
- 1979 Hilary Barnard (United Kingdom)
- 1981 Milton Colindres (El Salvador)
- 1983 Kirsten Jensen (Denmark)
- 1985 Joan Calabuig (Spain)
- 1989 Sven Eric Söder (Sweden)
- 1991 Roger Hällhag (Sweden)
- 1995 Nicola Zingaretti (Italy)
- 1997 Umberto Gentiloni (Italy)
- 1999 Alvaro Elizalde (Chile)
- 2004 Fikile Mbalula (South Africa)
IUSY Congresses
- 1946 Paris
- 1948 Leuven
- 1951 Hamburg
- 1954 Copenhagen
- 1957 Rome
- 1960 Vienna
- 1963 Oslo
- 1966 Vienna
- 1969 Rome
- 1973 Malta
- 1975 Brussels
- 1977 Stuttgart
- 1979 Frankfurt
- 1981 Vienna
- 1983 Jørlunde (Denmark)
- 1985 Sevilla
- 1987 Brussels
- 1989 Bommersvik (Sweden)
- 1991 Seč (Czechoslovakia)
- 1993 Montevideo
- 1995 Modena
- 1997 Lillehammer
- 1999 Hamburg
- 2001 Johannesburg
- 2004 Budapest
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.
- 1952 IUSY Camp Vienna
- 1954 IUSY Camp Liège
- 1956 IUSY Camp Tampere
- 1959 IUSY Camp Berlin
- 1962 IUSY Camp Copenhagen
- 1965 IUSY Camp Carmel (Israel)
- 1968 IUSY Camp Vierhouten (The Netherlands)
- 1977 Internationales Sozialistisches Jugendtreffen Stuttgart
- 1981 Internationales Sozialistisches Jugendtreffen Vienna
- 1985 IUSY Festival Luxembourg
- 1987 IUSY Festival Valencia
- 1992 IUSY Festival Porto
- 1996 IUSY Festival Bonn
- 2000 IUSY Festival Malmö
- 2003 IUSY Festival Kamena Vourla (Greece)
External link
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