Socialist Youth League Karl Liebknecht, (German: Sozialistischer Jugendverband Karl Liebknecht) was a left-wing youth organization in West Berlin during the Cold War. It was the youth organization of Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin. It was a member of World Federation of Democratic Youth.
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