Red Youth (Norway)

Red Youth Rød Ungdom
Leader	Linn-Elise Øhn Mehlen
Deputy Leader	Tobias Lund, Tomine Sandal
Secretary General	Anja Ariel Tørnes Brekke
Founded	1963
Headquarters	Oslo
Ideology	Communism Feminism Revolutionary socialism
Mother party	Red Party
Website
Official Website

Red Youth (Bokmål: Rød Ungdom, Nynorsk: Raud Ungdom, shortened RU) is a Norwegian revolutionary youth league. It is the youth organization of the Red party, a merger of the former Red Electoral Alliance and the Workers' Communist Party. The current leader of Red Youth is Linn-Elise Øhn Mehlen.

It is an organisation with three main principles: revolutionary socialism, feminism and anti-racism. Their goals are typically communist; they aim to organise the working class in preparation for an eventual overthrow of the capitalist system.

RU wants to increase democracy in Norway by banning far-right parties that attack democracy from being formed while distancing themselves from the Communist regimes in the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. The Red Youth is active on several political fronts, supporting the Palestinian resistance and opposing racism, sexism, and the European Union.

Since the election of the Red-Green government in 2005, Red Youth has been working to push the Labour Party (Norway) and the Socialist Left Party in a more leftist direction. In August 2008, a faction of communist dissidents left the youth organization to form Revolutionary Communist Youth, the youth affiliate of Serve the People.

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