Revolutionary Youth Movement

The Revolutionary Youth Movement was a radical student organization formed following the splintering of the Communist Student Union of America in 1960. Formed by students who believed that the mainstream communist parties in North America had ceased to be revolutionary and were now unresponsive to the mass line, the RYM grew rapidly as generational gaps grew between the post-revolution generations now entering adulthood and the older generations. The movement's growth outside of traditional student venues formed a pillar of the enduring counterculture growing in the United Republics. After a period of forming alliances with the General Union of Anarchists as well as other ultraleft fractions, the Revolutionary Youth Movement merged into the Social Ecology Union in 1977.