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Youth League (other)
Youth League may refer to any of the following Organizations * Youth Leagues (Ceylon), societies of young people, mainly intellectuals, who wanted independence for Sri Lanka * A-League National Youth League, an Australian national football (soccer) league * African National Congress Youth League, the youth wing of the African National Congress * City Youth League, a defunct organization that participated in nonviolent resistance against the government in Rhodesia * Coalition Party Youth League, the youth wing of National Coalition Party in Finland * Communist Youth League of China also known as the China Youth League, a youth movement of the People's Republic of China * ESC Youth League, a shooting competition for national teams created by the European Shooting Confederation * General Dutch Youth League, a political youth movement in the Netherlands * Gilette National Youth League, a British rugby league tournament at under-18 level * Kuomintang Youth League, is a youth group ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Youth Leagues (Ceylon)
The Youth Leagues were societies of young people, mainly intellectuals, who wanted independence for Sri Lanka. The first of these organisations was the Jaffna Students’ Congress, founded in 1924 and renamed the Jaffna Youth Congress (JYC) in 1926. It had its base amongst educated middle-class Tamil youth, especially and young graduates from Indian Universities and from the newly founded University College, Colombo. It drew enthusiasm and morale boosts from visits of leading Indian personalities, such as Gandhi and Nehru. In 1931 Kamaladevi Chattopadyaya addressed the opening session of the All-Ceylon Youth Congress, which brought together the Youth Leagues in the All-Ceylon Youth Congress. A group of young intellectuals who had returned to the island in the early thirties, having completed their studies abroad where they had been influenced by the Marxist and labour movements, enthusiastically participated in the radical activities of the newly formed Youth Leagues, which b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |