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{{short description|Youth organization of the German political party The Left}}
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{{Infobox political youth organization
 | name = Left Youth ['solid] 
 | native_name = Linksjugend ['solid] 
 | colorcode      = Red
 | logo           = [[File:Linksjugend Logo.svg|250px]]
 | chairperson    = 
 | founded = {{Start date|1999}} ('solid) <br/>20 May 2007 (Left Youth Solid)
 | split from     = 
 | headquarters   = Berlin, Germany
 | international  = 
 | regional1_type = European
 | regional1_name = 
 | mother party = [[The Left (Germany)|The Left]]
| ideology = [[Democratic socialism]]<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=http://miriamstrunge.de/jugendverband/linksjugend-solid-bremen/|title=linksjugend ['solid] Bremen}}</ref><ref name="auto1">{{cite web |url=http://s144731316.online.de/wp-solid-fr/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Theoriereader.pdf |title= Editorial|date=2013 |website=s144731316.online.de |access-date=2021-01-12}}</ref><br>[[Marxism]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Positionen – Linksjugend ['solid] |url=https://www.linksjugend-solid.de/inhalte/ |access-date=28 September 2024 |language=de-DE}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Politische Bildung – Linksjugend ['solid] |url=https://www.linksjugend-solid.de/politische-bildung/ |access-date=2024-09-28 |language=de-DE}}</ref> <br>[[Communism]]<ref>{{cite web |date= 23 April 2017 |url=https://www.linksjugend-solid.de/beschluss/gegen-die-regierungsbeteiligung-fuer-den-kommunismus/ |title = Gegen die Regierungsbeteiligung, für den Kommunismus! – Linksjugend ['solid] |language=de-DE}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date= 15 April 2018 |url=https://www.linksjugend-solid.de/beschluss/fuer-einen-emanzipatorischen-kommunismus/ |title = Für einen emanzipatorischen Kommunismus! – Linksjugend ['solid]|language=de-DE}}</ref><br /> [[Anti-fascism]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.linksjugend-solid.de/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/blockfascism-reader.pdf |title=Block Fascism|website=linksjugend-solid.de |access-date=2021-01-12 |language=de-DE}}</ref> <br /> [[Grassroots democracy]]<ref name="auto"/> <br /> [[Feminism]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.linksjugend-solid.de/positionen/feminismus/|title=Feminismus &#124; linksjugend ['solid] |language=de-DE}}</ref>
 | position       = [[Left-wing politics|Left-wing]]<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/256222/1/ZORA_Ohmura_2023_Power_seeking_2C_networking_and_competition__28published_version_29.pdf |first1=Ohmura |last1=Tamaki |first2=Stefanie |last2=Bailer |year=2022 |title=Power-Seeking, Networking and Competition: Why Women Do Not Rise in Parties |journal=West European Politics |volume=46 |issue=5 897–927. |doi=10.1080/01402382.2022.2097442 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |page=911 |quote="The following analysis of the choice experiment presents the results for left-wing (Young Socialists, Green Youth and Left Youth Solid)..."}}</ref> to [[Far-left politics|far-left]]<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/256222/1/ZORA_Ohmura_2023_Power_seeking_2C_networking_and_competition__28published_version_29.pdf |first1=Ohmura |last1=Tamaki |first2=Stefanie |last2=Bailer |year=2022 |title=Power-Seeking, Networking and Competition: Why Women Do Not Rise in Parties |journal=West European Politics |volume=46 |issue=5 897–927. |doi=10.1080/01402382.2022.2097442 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |page=921 |quote="Number of respondents in brackets: Junge Union (Young Union): 102,069 (307), Jusos (Young Socialists): 70,000 (509), Junge Liberale (Young Liberals): 10,300 (47), Grüne Jugend (Green Youth): 9221 (139), Linksjugend/'solid' (Extreme-Left): 6441 (121), Junge Alternative (Extreme-Right: 1655 (70)."}}</ref>
 | magazine       = 
 | website        = {{Nowrap|http://www.linksjugend-solid.de/}}
}}
The '''{{lang|de|Linksjugend ['solid]}}''' ''(en: Left Youth ['solid])'' is a political youth organisation in [[Germany]]. It is the official youth wing of the political party [[The Left (Germany)|The Left]]. It was formed in 2007 as the legal successor to '''{{lang|de|['solid] – die sozialistische jugend}}''' (en: Solid: the socialist youth) which was the unofficial youth wing of the [[Left Party (Germany)|Left Party]] and its predecessor [[Party of Democratic Socialism (Germany)|PDS]]. The name "solid" comes from {{lang|de|'''so'''zialistisch, '''li'''nks, '''d'''emokratisch}} ''(socialist, left, democratic.)''

== History ==
[[File:Linksjugend solid Logo.svg|thumb|Old logo]]
''Solid: the socialist youth'' was formed in [[Hanover]] in June 1999 and was accepted by the Party of Democratic Socialism as a youth organisation "close to PDS" in March 2002. Membership is for people between the ages of 14 and 35 and in March 2005 they had 1,500 members.

Before 1999 the PDS's youth organisation was {{lang|de|[[Arbeitsgemeinschaft Junge GenossInnen]]}}; since then, most young members of the Left-Party have concentrated within ['solid]. But due to differences, other young members formed the "PDS Youth", a youth organisation integrated within the party and by self-definition of the group serving to form future cadres for the full-fledged party. The PDS-youth was small compared to ['solid] and only represented in a small number of the federal [[States of Germany]].

On Solid's federal delegate congress on 20 May 2007, the organisation reorganised to the present structure including the former PDS Youth and the youth organisation of [[Labour and Social Justice – The Electoral Alternative|WASG]]. This was a response to the fusion of the Left Party/PDS and WASG.

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.linksjugend-solid.de/ Website]

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