left-wing faction within the party took the initiative to form a new party, Sverges socialdemokratiska vänsterparti (Social Democratic Left Party of Sweden). SDUF became the youth wing of the new party. SSV joined the Communist International in 1919, and was renamed to Sveriges kommunistiska parti (Communist Party of Sweden). Following that, SDUF was renamed to Sveriges Kommunistiska Ungdomförbund (Young Communist League of Sweden), and became the Swedish section of the Communist Youth International. In 1952, Democratic Youth was founded on the initiative of the party, in order to be a broader youth movement. Until 1958, SKU and DU existed as parallel organisations. In 1958, the two organisations merged and took the name DU. In 1967, ultra-left elements took over the organisation, and broke away to form Marxist-leninistiska kampförbundet (Marxist–Leninist Struggle League). Reconstruction work started rapidly. In 1970, the organisation was re-baptised as Kommunistisk Ungdom (Communist Youth). By 1973, there was a national organisation in function, and, by 1975, an ordinary congress was held. Young Left have published the youth magazine Röd Press since 1982, when Young Left lost the rights of its magazine Stormklockan to the Maoist MLK in a trial. In Sweden, Young Left was one of the many forces behind the large 15 February 2003 anti-war protest. Under the later years of the 2010s, different members of the Young Left have been excluded because of strong couplings to the Revolutionary Front and the AFA. The national executive board have been doing both official exclusions and cut-offs in these cases. This is because these groups are not deemed compatible with the democratic socialism and anti-racism fight that the Young Left are driving. The party board of the Left Party has also been strongly advising for hard consequences in these situations. After having had a stable membership of between 1,500 – 2,800 for a number of years, the membership of the youth organisation had declined to 964 in 2016 according to the Swedish Agency for Youth and Civil Society. Chairpersons 2021– 2017–2021 2015–2017 2011–2015 2005–2011 2004–2005 Tove Fraurud 2001–2004 Ali Esbati 1996–2001 1993–1996 1989–1993 1980–1989 Stellan Hermansson 1975–1980 Lars Johansson (sv) 1973–1975 Bengt Karlsson 1970–1973 Spokespersons: Bengt Karlsson, Urban Herlitz 1967–1970 Anders Carlberg 1964–1967 1962–1964 1957–1962 Rolf Utberg (DU) 1951–1958 (SKU) 19??–1951 Axel Jansson ? 1935–1939 Filip Forsberg ? 1921–1924 Nils Flyg 1909–1921 Zeth Höglund 1908–1909 Per Albin Hansson 190?–190? Fabian Månsson 1903– Name changes 1903 Socialdemokratiska Ungdomsförbund (SDUF, Social