Resistance: Young Socialist Alliance (RYSA) was the youth wing of Socialist Alliance, an Australian eco-socialist and anti-capitalist political party. With membership automatic for all party members up to the age of 26, RYSA has had a long history, both as a Socialist Alliance affiliate and independent socialist organisation. Resistance, as it was originally known, was founded in 1967 by left-wing students, eventually growing to have large influence on campus politics, helped by its commitment to demonstrations and activism, and not just electoral activity. Resistance remained a youth socialist organisation, maintaining close links with the Democratic Socialist Perspective party, the predecessor of the modern Socialist Alliance. Resistance became the youth wing of the latter in 2014, in order to "strengthen ... organisation overall and provide a solid framework to recruit and integrate youth to radical politics moving forward". RYSA maintains a presence throughout every state and territory of Australia, based in the local Resistance Activist Centres, where local party and Green Left Weekly branches are also headquartered. RYSA organises an annual youth socialist conference, known as "Radical Ideas", with the 2017 edition held in North Melbourne from 18–20 August. Campaigns Resistance campaigns on many social justice and environmental issues. Current national campaigns include: action on climate change, equal marriage rights, rolling back the Northern Territory Intervention, ending mandatory detention for asylum seekers, equal rights for women, Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel, and stopping cuts to tertiary education. Resistance also campaigns around international issues such as ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, ending the occupation of Palestine, support for the Venezuelan and Cuban revolutions, and support for Tamil self-determination in Sri Lanka. Green Left Weekly Resistance members help to write for and produce Green Left Weekly, and each edition includes one page dedicated to articles written by Resistance members about youth issues or movements Resistance is involved in. In the past, Resistance has organised a multi-page magazine insert into Green Left Weekly and periodically organises lift-out sheets. History Resistance was formed in 1967 out of the Sydney University Labor Club and the Vietnam Action Campaign. This was a time when students were being radicalised by the Vietnam war. Throughout the late 1960s, Resistance struggled with members of the ALP and CPA for the anti-Vietnam War movement to call mass demonstrations; these experiences formed the basis of Resistance's opposition to Stalinism and emphasis on mass action in social movements. In late