The Young Socialists is the name given to the youth sections of several socialist and social democratic political parties. The color red and particularly the red flag are traditional symbols of Socialism. ... 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. ... A political party is a political organization subscribing to a certain ideology or formed around very special issues. ...

The national youth section of the British Labour Party was called the Young Socialists from 1960. Initially it had a flourishing internal life dominated by competing Trotskyist parties practising the tactic of entryism but as with earlier Labour Party youth sections this life was gradually stifled as the parent party sought to remove the Trotskyists. The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. ... Entryism (or entrism or enterism) is a political tactic by which an organisation encourages members to infiltrate another organisation in an attempt to gain recruits, or take over entirely. ...

Most important of the various tendencies in the Young Socialists in the early 1960s was the Keep Left tendency organised around the paper of the same name. This grouping was allied to the Trotskyist party the Socialist Labour League and took its supporters out of the Labour Party in 1966. The SLL and its succesor the Workers Revolutionary party maintained their own Young Socialists until that group finally fell apart in 1985. The 1960s, or The Sixties, in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ... Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. ... The Workers Revolutionary Party was a Trotskyist political party in the United Kingdom. ... 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ... 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The Labour Party Young Socialists (LPYS) were renamed as such in 1965 to stress their relationship with the adult party. However the domination of Keep Left was replaced by the domination of Young Guard a paper supported by both the International Socialists (IS) and the Revolutionary Socialists although the former contribute little material and quit to found their own paper, The Militant, in 1964. Before Young Guard the IS had supported a smaller publication called Rebel and the RSL had organised around Rally, th title coming from an earlier era stood for Read all About the Labour League of Youth. By 1968 Young Guard was discontinued as IS supporters drifted out of the labour Party and LPYS. 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. ... 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ...

From 1970 onwards it was under the control of the Militant Tendency achieving a highpoint of 581 branches in 1985. In 1987 the Neil Kinnock Labour Party leadership removed the LPYS's leadership and effectively closed it down down by dissolving most of its elected structures and reducing its upper age limit from 26 to 23. This followed violence at that year's LPYS conference and a 1986 conference decision to rfeorganise the LPYS. By 1990 the number of LPYS branches had fallen to 52. In the mid-1990s a new youth movement called 'Young Labour' was launched. 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... The Militant Tendency was a Trotskyist faction within the Labour Party in the UK, accused of entryist tactics. ... 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lord Kinnock The Right Honourable Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock, PC (born 28 March 1942) is a British politician. ... 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... // Events and trends The 1990s are generally classified as having moved slightly away from the more conservative 1980s, but keeping the same mind-set. ...

"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. The Socialist Workers Party is a small communist political party in the United States. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations by or about: United States Wikinews has news related to this article: United States United States government CIA World Factbook Entry for United States House. ... See Communist League (disambiguation) for other groups of the same name. ... The Pathfinder tendency is the unofficial name of the group of organizations, each known as the Communist League grouped around the Socialist Workers Party of the United States. ...