Resistance: Young Socialist Alliance

Resistance: Young Socialist Alliance (RYSA) is 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".^[1]

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.