Young Left (Sweden)

Young Left
Ung Vänster
ChairpersonAva Rudberg[1]
Secretary GeneralMika Brovall[2]
Founded1903; 121 years ago (1903)
1970; 54 years ago (1970)
HeadquartersKungsgatan 84, Stockholm
Membership1,739 (2020)
IdeologyCommunism[3]
Revolutionary socialism[4]
Feminism[5]
Marxism[5]
Mother partyLeft Party (formally independent)
International affiliationNone; former member of the YCI, WFDY and ENDYL
Nordic affiliationSocialistisk Ungdom i Norden (SUN)
Websitewww.ungvanster.se

Young Left (Swedish: Ung Vänster [ˈɵŋː ˈvɛ̌nːstɛr] ) is a socialist, Marxist, and feminist youth organisation. It is the official youth wing of the Swedish Left Party. The organisation calls themselves a "revolutionary youth organisation with roots in the communist part of the labour movement, anchored in the women's movement and influenced by the environmental- and peace movement."[6]

  1. ^ Brask, Christofer; Brath-Kron, Viktor; Strömberg, Maggie. "30 mäktigaste under 30 – morgondagens ministrar och partiledare". Expressen (in Swedish). Retrieved 2021-01-08.
  2. ^ "Förbundsstyrelsen" (in Swedish). Young Left. Archived from the original on 2023-02-21. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  3. ^ Ung Vänsters principprogram (in Swedish)
  4. ^ Principprogram Antaget på Ung Vänsters 44:e kongress Arboga 20-23 mars 2008, s. 45
  5. ^ a b Program, s. 5
  6. ^ Principprogram (PDF). Ung Vänsters 47:e kongress (in Swedish). Karlstad. 14–17 May 2015. Archived from the original on June 1, 2016. Retrieved March 4, 2023.{{cite conference}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)