Young Socialist League Explained

Country:	the United Kingdom
Young Socialist League
Foundation:	1911
Dissolved:	March 1921
Newspaper:	Red Flag
Successor:	The Young Workers' League

The Young Socialist League was a British radical political youth group founded in 1911. The group was mostly active in London, where it also had the majority of its members. According to the Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations, the group probably had its roots in the Socialist Sunday Schools. The League was linked to the British Socialist Party, a small Marxist party, also founded in 1911, who were supporters of the Bolshevik Revolution. It published a paper called the Red Flag.^[1]

In March 1921 the Young Socialist League merged with a section of the Young Labour League to form the Young Workers' League, a forerunner of the Young Communist League.^[1]

Members

Several of the so-called Whitechapel Boys, including John Rodker, Isaac Rosenberg, Joseph Leftwich, Samuel Winsten, Lazarus Aaronson and David Bomberg were among the members of the League.^{[2] [3]}

Notes and References

1. Encyclopedia: Peter . Barberis . John . McHugh . Mike . Tyldesley . Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations: Parties, Groups and Movements of the Twentieth Century . 571: Young Socialist League . revised . 2000 . Pinter . 173 . 1-85567-264-2 .
2. Book: Patterson, Ian . Beasley . Rebecca . Bullock . Philip Ross . 2013 . Russia in Britain, 1880-1940: From Melodrama to Modernism . The Translation of Soviet Literature . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-966086-5 . 189.
3. Book: Moorcroft Wilson, Jean . Jean Moorcroft Wilson . 2009 . Isaac Rosenberg: The Making of a Great War Poet: A New Life . Northwestern University Press . U.S. . 978-0-8101-2604-6 . 85, 98, 101, 181.