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28-595: Red Youth may refer to: Red Youth (Norway) Red Youth (Netherlands) Red Youth (Marxist–Leninist) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Red Youth . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Red_Youth&oldid=1010408751 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

56-554: A communist society, however women’s liberation does not happen by itself. Women must organize together and fight for liberation both today under capitalism and under socialism. It is therefore that we want a society where the socio-economic differences between both genders are abolished. The organization has participated in annual 8 March demonstrations, typically under the slogan of anti-imperialism and women's liberation through socialist revolution. It has also published criticism of liberal feminism and radical feminism , saying that

84-459: A logical consequence of their anti-Maoism. Serve the People has summarized its position on the women's liberation movement as follows: As long as the class system has existed, women have been especially oppressed. We support women’s rights against discrimination, against low wages based on gender and against the sexualization of women through media. We can only be fully liberated when we create

112-413: A market economy leads to a situation where a minority gains the right to own society's most important resources, resulting in private profit being prioritized over human needs. They argue that the exclusion of the economy from democratic control means that important decisions in economic policy are left to the market rather than to elected representatives. Red Youth believes that a capitalist society leads to

140-472: A situation where the ballot must yield to money, and democracy gives way to plutocracy. For Red Youth, communism is a social system aimed at abolishing both the state and private property in favor of the collective. The organization views communism as a society where classes and social gender roles are unnecessary. Their vision is for society to be organized as a community of free interests, collectively deciding how humanity's creative potential can be utilized in

168-423: Is Amrit Pernille Kaur. It is an organisation with three main principles: revolutionary socialism , feminism , and communism . Their goals are typically communist; they aim to organise the working class in preparation for what they perceive as an eventual overthrow of the capitalist system. Red Youth believes that capitalism is primarily responsible for oppression, class divisions, and hunger. According to RU,

196-669: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Red Youth (Norway) Red Youth ( Bokmål : Rød Ungdom ; Nynorsk : Raud Ungdom ; abbr. RU ) is a Norwegian youth organisation. It is the youth wing of the Red Party , which was formed from a merger of the Red Electoral Alliance and the Workers' Communist Party in March 2007. The current leader of Red Youth

224-639: Is extreme, then Valen and Solberg are the real extremists". Serve the People's former spokesperson Henrik Ormåsen was a member of the Red Electoral Alliance (later the Red Party ) for several years. In 2008, he was expelled due to the Serve the People's criticisms of the Red Party. Ormåsen claims that the allegations were incorrect and that the decision to exclude him were wrong. In June 2008, 12 others were expelled from Red Youth , also on

252-414: Is the only means by which socialism and communism can be established. It is open to the use of violence as a means to protect the proletariat against reprisals from the bourgeoisie. It regards Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Vladimir Lenin , Joseph Stalin , Mao Zedong and Chairman Gonzalo as the six leading communists who developed Marxism–Leninism–Maoism. Serve the People – A Marxist–Leninist Group

280-524: The Progress Party , to leave the country in response to her own party's proposal to offer immigrants the same sum to go back to their own countries. At the end of the 1990s and the early 2000s, Rød Ungdom (Red Youth) campaigned for free school textbooks. In the fall of 2001, Rød Ungdom made 14 school textbooks available for free download on the internet. Serve the People (Norway) The organization supports people's war and claims that this

308-805: The parliamentary elections in 2009 , 2013 , and 2017 , as well as local elections in 2011 and 2015 . Serve the People offer three main reasons for boycotting the election: Serve the People has criticized several communist organizations in Norway, claiming that they are revisionists . The most notable example is its youth group's split from Red Youth. Serve the People have also criticized Hoxhaist tendencies within Marxist-Leninist Group Revolution (Norwegian: ML-Gruppa Revolusjon ) and Communist Platform (Norwegian: Kommunistisk plattform, KP ) for their reformist positions, and characterize those groups' reformism and revisionism as

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336-587: The Norwegian law that secondary education must be free since students were still required to buy textbooks. The Red Youth also built a refugee asylum in the garden of the Conservative Minister of Local Government, Erna Solberg , in 2008, as a protest against her immigration policies. In 2010, the Red Youth launched a campaign to collect 100,000 NOK to offer Siv Jensen , party leader of

364-672: The People . Red Youth is an activist organisation, and has performed political actions and media stunts directed towards Norwegian politicians. Red Youth interrupted the Christian Democratic Party 's national meeting in 2004 in an attempt to expose and highlight what they perceived as the Christian Democrats' anti-homosexual attitude. Also in 2004, members attempted to 'arrest' the Conservative Minister of Education, Kristin Clemet , for allegedly breaking

392-463: The People described as a "public attack against Serve the People" by KPml. A cooperation between Serve the People and Communist Group in Bergen (Norwegian: Kommunistisk gruppe i Bergen , KGB) ended a year later as a result of a difference of opinion regarding political platforms, including their positions on Stalin as a leader. In 2010, several media outlets reported that many leaders and employees in

420-428: The People has since publicly apologized for the incident and excluded Frantzen from the organization. In 2012, a former spokesperson and member of Serve the People and RKU, Kim Kopperud published a harsh criticism of the organization with another former member. It outlined a lack of membership democracy, and Kopperud resigned from the organization in protest the same year. In October 2012, four former members of Serve

448-509: The People, SOS, and the associated organization Indiasolidaritet reportedly engaged in a fist fight with members of Serve the People in a meeting room in the Oslo Public Library . There are conflicting reports as to who started the fight. In early 2018, Serve the People published an article where it apologized for having provided "a platform for dangerous persons". In August 2018, the organization published an article outlining

476-475: The anti-racist organization SOS Racisme were associated with Serve the People. Some outlets alleged that public funding allocated to SOS was being used for Serve the People's activities. This has been denied by both Serve the People and SOS. All three persons registered as leaders of Serve the People in the Entity Registry as per 2017 were in the central leadership of SOS Racism: Henrik Ormåsen as

504-400: The basis of their alleged association with Serve the People. Later, other members of Serve the People would be excluded or freely withdraw from the Red Party. After Communist Platform (KPml) was established in 2007, a polemic arose between the organizations. Serve the People claimed that KPml had never intended to work with Serve the People. The polemic ended shortly thereafter in what Serve

532-402: The best possible way. As expressed in their program, they believe that such a society will not be without contradictions and problems. They argue that communism will not necessarily eliminate gender oppression, racism, and the waste of natural resources, but that the conditions for the structures that oppress people today will disappear. Red Youth does not believe that a communist society will mark

560-546: The development of human society , and the idea that through praxis , humans can influence this societal development: Marxism is our science to make the world a better place. We need Marxism to understand how capitalism works and how to abolish it. On its website, Tjen Folket summarizes its "Marxism-Leninism" with three fundamental principles governing the communist party: The organization sees Maoism as not only "Marxism for China", but offers "many teachings for international communists." Other central sources of inspiration that

588-606: The end of human development, but rather the end of oppression based on social and economic status. Since the election of the Red-Green government in 2005, Red Youth has been working to push the Labour Party and the Socialist Left Party in a communist direction. In August 2008, a faction of communist dissidents left the youth organization to form Revolutionary Communist Youth , the youth affiliate of Serve

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616-426: The former simply reinforces a class system that perpetuates the oppression of women and that the latter fails to recognize the primary contradiction in a class system and therefore does not address the core of the problem. In their stead, the organization offers proletarian feminism as a line for women's liberation. This divergence has manifested itself most prominently as a disagreement with other feminist movements on

644-702: The league refers to in its theoretical and political foundation besides AKP and the "five classics" are the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (France), the Communist Party of Peru – Shining Path , the Communist Party of India (Maoist) , the Communist Party of the Philippines , and the Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist , among others. Serve the People has called for a boycott of each local and parliamentary election held in Norway since 2009, including

672-463: The question of prostitution, which Serve the People rejects as an oppressive practice. The organization has been criticized on several occasions as being Stalinist and left-extremist, which the organization has denied. In response to allegations of extremism levied by then Prime Minister Erna Solberg , Tjen Folket wrote in an August 2017 editorial that "Violence can oppress, but it can also smash oppression and it can liberate", and that "If violence

700-437: The working committee's deputy between 2008 and 2010, Kjell Gunnar Larsen as the chief treasurer, and Bjarne Stokke as a national leadership member. In 2011, former Serve the People member Nora Warholm claimed that Serve the People abused SOS Racism in order to advance its own interests. Another former central member in Serve the People, Bård Frantzen, harassed Warholm with sexist slurs and encouraged her to commit suicide. Serve

728-600: Was a great theoretician. According to Red leader Torstein Dahle , Ormåsen has "harmed the party and brought into question what the party stood for." Serve the People launched an ideological campaign with the task of starting a new communist party after the collapse of AKP and changed its subtitle from "A Marxist-Leninist Group" to "Communist League" in 2009. Serve the People bases its political theory on Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and states that contemporary Marxism has been developed through three stages. The original stage of Marxism

756-411: Was developed by Marx and Engels in the 19th century. The second stage is Leninism as developed by Lenin and Stalin. The third stage is Maoism , "the most advanced form of revolutionary theory today", according to the organization's program. According to Serve the People, Marxism distinguishes itself from other forms of socialism (e.g. utopian socialism ) by building on scientific theories regarding

784-530: Was established in 1998 as a splinter group from AKP. Serve the People claim that the cause of the split was rightism within AKP's leadership. Several members of AKP and its youth organization, Revolutionary Communist Youth (RKU) were consequentially expelled from AKP, Red Electoral Alliance (RV) , Red, and/or Red Youth. Henrik Ormåsen, the spokesperson for Serve the People, was expelled from AKP and Red Youth in 1997 and from Red in 2008 when he said that Joseph Stalin

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