The Left Youth (''Vasemmistonuoret'' in

Finnish Finnish may refer to: * Something or someone from, or related to Finland * Culture of Finland * Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland * Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people * Finnish cuisine See also ...

, ''Vänsterunga'' in

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

) is a political youth organization in

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...

. It is considered the youth wing of the Left Alliance, but it is not officially affiliated with the party - members of the Left Youth are not automatically members of the Left Alliance. The organization was founded in 1944. Until 1998, it was known as the Finnish Democratic Youth League (SDNL, ''Suomen demokraattinen nuorisoliitto'') and until 1990 it served as the youth organization of the now-defunct

Finnish People's Democratic League Finnish People's Democratic League ( fi, Suomen Kansan Demokraattinen Liitto, SKDL; sv, Demokratiska Förbundet för Finlands Folk, DFFF) was a Finnish political organisation with the aim of uniting those left of the Finnish Social Democratic P ...

(SKDL). SDNL was a founding member of

World Federation of Democratic Youth The World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) is an international youth organization, and has historically characterized itself as left-wing and anti-imperialist. WFDY was founded in London in 1945 as a broad international youth movement, o ...

, but its main international frame used to be the

European Network of Democratic Young Left The European Network of Democratic Young Left (ENDYL) was an independent network of left-wing democratic socialist political youth organisations in Europe. ENDYL was open to European youth organisations of the democratic left that neither foll ...

until its dissolution.https://de-de.facebook.com/Endyl-European-Network-of-Democratic-Young-Left-143775598983791/ post of March 22nd 2016

Chairpersons

* Liban Sheikh 2020– * Hanna-Marilla Zidan 2017-2019 * Anni Ahlakorpi 2015-2017 *

Li Andersson Li Sigrid Andersson (born 13 May 1987) is a Finnish politician who has been serving as Minister of Education since 2019. The leader of the Left Alliance, she has been a Member of Parliament since 2015. She is also the city councilor of Turku a ...

2011–2015 *

Dan Koivulaakso Dan or DAN may refer to: People * Dan (name), including a list of people with the name ** Dan (king), several kings of Denmark * Dan people, an ethnic group located in West Africa **Dan language, a Mande language spoken primarily in Côte d'Ivoi ...

2009–2011 *

Jussi Saramo Jussi Antero Saramo (born 9 July 1979 in Porvoon maalaiskunta) is a Finnish politician who serves in the Parliament of Finland for the Left Alliance (Finland), Left Alliance at the Uusimaa (constituency), Uusimaa constituency. He was elected to ...

2005–2009 *

Paavo Arhinmäki Paavo Erkki Arhinmäki (born 13 December 1976, in Helsinki) is a Finnish politician, a member of the Finnish Parliament and a former Minister for Culture and Sport, representing the Left Alliance, a party whose leader he was from 2009 to 2016. H ...

2001–2005 * Sanna-Kaisa Cortés Téllez 1997–2001 * Marjo Katajisto 1995–1997 * Marko Autio 1991–1995 * Leena Ruotsalainen 1987–1991 * Rauno Merisaari 1985–1988 * Harri Moisio 1982–1985 * Markku Kärkkäinen 1976–1982 * Pekka Saarnio 1970–1976 * Ossi Sjöman 1964–1970 * Anna-Liisa Tiekso-Isaksson 1955–1964 *

Markus Kainulainen Markus Kainulainen (9 August 1922, Helsinki – 30 August 2017) was a Finnish communist politician. He was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Finland (SKP) and served as a Member of the Parliament of Finland from 1975 to ...

1952–1955 * Toivo Karppinen 1947–1952 * Yrjö Ahomaa 1945–1947

References

External links

* Finnish People's Democratic League Left Alliance (Finland) Youth wings of Party of the European Left member parties Youth wings of political parties in Finland {{Youth-org-stub