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Vasemmistonuoret - Left Youth of Finland

National Network

Finland

Address

Hämeentie 29, 6th floor 00500 Helsinki Finland

Country

Finland

City

Helsinki

Street address 2

Hämeentie 29, 6th floor

Telephone

+358-9-77474620

E-Mail

toimisto@vasemmistonuoret.fi

Website

Click Here

Year of Establishment

1944

Contact Person1

Antti Kettunen

Job Title 1

General Secretary

Organisation Type

Non-Governmental Organization

Fields of Activity

Youth and education

General Information

The Left Youth of Finland (Vasemmistonuoret) is independent nation-wide political youth organisation. Left Youth consists of nine district organisations, which have some 40 local branches. As a whole, The Left Youth of Finland has almost 5000 members. The organisation is lead by a chairperson who is elected for a two-year term in Left Youth's national assembly. Left Youth has six permanent employees working for the national organisation. The district organisations have about one employee each. There are also temporary employees in our campaigns, but most of the organisations work rest on the voluntary work by hundreds of activists. Left Youth has a yearly budget of about 600 000 EUR. Roughly half of the income is government funding for national youth organisations, the other half consists of private grant.

Mission and Objectives

The Left Youth of Finland is a political youth organization and a civic organization. Its central values are socialism, democracy, feminism, red-green environmentalism and internationalism. These goals are not considered to be separate, but rather form a comprehensive view of a freer, more humane and more equal world. We in The Left Youth consider an ideal society - an ideal world - to be a place, in which every individual can live without fear and in which every individual is granted the right, as well as the possibility, to study and work. In addition, healthy and clean environment should be considered a right everyone is entitled to in a society.

Main Projects / Activities

To achieve its objectives The Left Youth promotes various forms of political activity: demonstrations are regarded as equally worthwhile as operating within the limits of party politics. The Left Youth organises national campaigns concerning issues important for us. The Left Youth also holds seminars and courses on politics and organisations work. The Left Youths campaigns have recently been about feminism, worker's rights, against racism and for immigrant rights and against NATO.