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Revolutionary Communist Youth and Spartacus Youth League Bulletins
HLL.2019.039
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Contributing Institution:
Holt Labor Library at CSU Dominguez Hills
Title: Revolutionary Communist Youth and Spartacus Youth League Bulletins
Creator:
Revolutionary Communist Youth (U.S.)
Creator:
Spartacus Youth League of America
Identifier/Call Number: HLL.2019.039
Physical Description:
1 box
Date (inclusive): 1972-1983
Abstract: The collection contains Internal Discussion Bulletins and Pre-Conference Discussion Bulletins published by Revolutionary Communist
Youth (RCY), and Internal Discussion Bulletins and one Young Communist League Bulletin published by the Spartacus Youth League
(SYL). Both organizations served as the national youth group for the Spartacist League of the U.S., a Trotskyist political
organization, from 1971-1986.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
The collection comprises Internal Discussion Bulletins and Pre-Conference Discussion Bulletins published by Revolutionary
Communist Youth, and Internal Discussion Bulletins and one Young Communist League Bulletin published by the Spartacus Youth
League.
Allison Ransom processed the collection and wrote the finding aid in April 2022.
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The collection is arranged alphabetically in one series.
The Revolutionary Communist Youth and Spartacus Youth League Bulletins were donated to the Holt Labor Library in San Francisco,
California between 2001 and 2019, and were acquired by the Gerth Archives and Special Collections at California State University,
Dominguez Hills, in 2019.
There are no access restrictions on this collection.
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.
Revolutionary Communist Youth (RCY) began as the Revolutionary Marxist Caucus within Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
in 1969. It later changed its name to Revolutionary Communist Youth when it became the national youth group of the Spartacist
League, a Trotskyist organization, from 1971-1974. From 1974- when it . The group later changed its name to Spartacus Youth
League from 1974-1986.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Communism
Socialism
Trotskyism -- United States