Origins
The Labour Party made several attempts to set up a viable youth section. In the 1930s the Labour League of Youth rose to 30,000 members, and took a highly critical stance toward the leadership of the Labour Party, but was closed down by the Labour Party nationally in 1954.
Local "Youth Sections" continued, however, in the local constituencies, for instance in Walton Constuituency in Liverpool, in which there was a long standing Marxist tradition, and where the local youth section published Rally.
In 1960 a new national Labour Party youth organisation was set up called the "Young Socialists". In 1965 this was renamed the Labour Party Young Socialists.
Read more about this topic: Labour Party Young Socialists
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