The Radical Students Union (RSU) organised an all-India seminar in Madras in August 1981 to discuss the nationality question in India.
The Revolutionary Students' Organisations Co-ordination Committee (RSOCC) was formed as a follow-up step.
Four years later, in 1985 the All India Revolutionary Students' Federation held its first conference in Hyderabad.
[1] Yalavarthi Naveen Babu, later to become a senior Naxalite leader, became editor of the AIRSF magazine Kalam in 1990.
[4] After Congress legislator C. Narsi Reddy was killed, on 17 August 2005 a ban was re-imposed in Andhra Pradesh on the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and its frontal organisations including the AIRSF and the Radical Youth League.