Socialist and Communist Youth Organizations collection HLL.2019.041

Allison Ransom

Holt Labor Library at CSU Dominguez Hills

April 2022

Contributing Institution: Holt Labor Library at CSU Dominguez Hills

Title: Socialist and Communist Youth Organizations collection

Creator: Young People's Socialist League

Creator: Young Communist International

Creator: Young Communist League of the U.S.

Creator: American Student Union

Identifier/Call Number: HLL.2019.041

Physical Description: 1 box

Date (inclusive): 1920-1959, 1970, undated

Abstract: The collection comprises subject files related to or published by socialist and communist youth organizations including Young People's Socialist League; Internationalist Socialist Youth; Young Communist International; Young Communist League; and American Student Union. It includes leaflets; resolutions; bulletins; pamphlets; reports; bulletins; and one song book.

Language of Material: Materials are in English.

Content Description

The collection comprises subject files that include leaflets, resolutions, bulletins, pamphlets, reports, bulletins, and one song book.

Preferred Citation

For information about citing archival material, see the Citations for Archival Material guide, or consult the appropriate style manual.

Custodial History

The Socialist and Communist Youth Organizations Collection was donated to the Holt Labor Library in San Francisco, California between 1992 and 2019, and was acquired by the Gerth Archives and Special Collections at California State University, Dominguez Hills, in 2019.

Conditions Governing Access

There are no access restrictions on this collection.

Arrangement

The collection is alphabetically arranged in one series.

Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Director of Archives and Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical materials and not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Processing Information

Allison Ransom processed the collection and wrote the finding aid in March 2020.

Biographical / Historical

The Young People's Socialist League (YPSL), 1907-1972, was the youth organization of the Socialist Party of America; International Communist Youth (ICY), 1919-1943, was the youth organization of the Communist International (Comintern); American Student Union (ASU), 1935-1941, was an anti-war student organization comprising socialist and communist members.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Communism

Socialism

Fourth International

box 1, folder 1

American Student Union undated (ca. 1940)

box 1, folder 2

International youth groups 1920, 1923, undated (ca. 1940, 1970)

Scope and Contents

Comprises bulletins, reports, flyers, leaflets, and one class syllabus related to or published by Young Communist International, Russian Young Communist League, and Young Socialist Alliance, among others.

box 1, folder 3

Socialist Youth Club and Internationalist Socialist Youth 1946, 1949, undated

Scope and Contents

Includes Young Militant, Vol. 1, No. 2, May 15, 1946 and The Young Marxist, published by Internationalist Socialist Youth, Fall 1949.

box 1, folder 4

Young Communist League undated (ca. 1940)

box 1, folder 5-6

Young People's Socialist League 1938-1939, 1959, undated

Scope and Contents

Includes "International Youth Bulletin," No. 2; "Internal Bulletin. Organizing Committee for the Socialist Party Convention," No. 3. Young Socialist Review, YPSL Discussion Bulletin, Vol. 1, No. 2-4 and Vol. 2, No. 1, May-June, August, November 1959; Soapbox, published by the student section of the Young People's Socialist League, Vol. 1, No. 2-6, January-April 1939; one "Young People's Socialist League" songbook and one promotional leaflet.