The Unified Socialist League ( ja, 統一社会主義リーグ, Tōitsu Shakaishugi Dōmei, abbreviated ''Tōshadō'') was a pro-

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organization in

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, founded on May 3, 1962. The Unified Socialist League was led by Kasuga Shōjirō, formerly a leading figure in the

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. Makoto Omori was the general secretary of the organization. The organization emerged from a split from the Preparatory Communission for a Socialist Reform Movement (a.k.a. the 'Socialist Renovation' group). The membership of the Unified Socialist League (numbering around 600) was dominated by students, and the organization had a student wing called the Socialist Student Front.

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The Japanese Communist Movement, 1920–1966
'. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967. pp. 144-145 The Unified Socialist League published a monthly journal, ''Kōzō Kaikaku'' ('Structural Reform'). It had a circulation of around 2,200. ''Kōzō Kaikaku'' was published between May 1962 and December 1963. In May 1964 the Unified Socialist League launched a new publication, ''Heiwa to Shakaishugi''. The Unified Socialist League repeatedly attacked the Communist Party of Japan, arguing that the party lacked internal democracy and that it was subservient to

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interests. The Unified Socialist League did not put forth candidates in national elections.Staar, Richard Felix, Milorad M. Drachkovitch, and Lewis H. Gann.
Yearbook on International Communist Affairs
'. Stanford, Calif: Hoover Institution Press, 1966. p. 341 (

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