Young People's Socialist League
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Young People's Socialist League
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Young People's Socialist League
Young Socialists (U.S.)
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Young Socialists (U.S.)
YPSL
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YPSL
Young People's Socialist League of America
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Young People's Socialist League of America
Socialist Party (U.S.). Youth Section
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Socialist Party (U.S.). Youth Section
YS (Young Socialists)
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YS (Young Socialists)
Socialist Party (U.S.). Young People's Department
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Socialist Party (U.S.). Young People's Department
Young People's Socialist League of the United States of America
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The Young People’s Socialist League (YPSL) has been the name of the youth section of the Socialist Party USA (SP). It originated in New York City in 1907 as the Young People's Socialist Federation, however, by 1918 it became known as the YPSL (members were often referred to as Yipsels). In the 1930s, the majority of the YPSL membership sided with the Militant faction within the Socialist Party, led by Norman Thomas, against the more moderate "Old Guard" linked to the garment industry unions, the Rand School, and the SP's periodical, the New Leader, which withdrew from the SP in 1936 to form the Social Democratic Federation. In that same year, U.S. Trotskyists entered the SP and the YPSL en masse in an attempt to win them to their political program, and within the YPSL, they had considerable success. A number of Yipsels, such as sociologist Daniel Bell, would go on to become prominent intellectuals, in particular within the anti-communist left. The YPSL continued to exist, with some periodic mergers with other organizations and related name changes, into the 1980s, with Trotskyists, and former Trotskyists, playing an important role.
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https://viaf.org/viaf/262114027
https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n88057383
https://id.loc.gov/authorities/n88057383
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Communism
Press, Socialist
Socialism and youth
Socialism and youth
Trotskyism
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