This attack resulted in four fatalities: two Viennese Nazis, the socialist policeman and member of the "Republikanischer Schutzbund" (English: Republican Protection League), Karl Tlasek, and an unsuspecting passerby named Therese Scherbaum.

On October 6, 2024, the state conference of the Socialist Youth Vorarlberg decided to separate from both the SPÖ and the SJÖ and to join the Revolutionary Communist Party (RKP), which is set to be founded on November 9, 2024.

The fundamentally Marxist orientation regained dominance in 2000, prevailing over those parts of the organization that considered Marxism outdated and advocated for a "modernization", meaning a social-democratization of the SJÖ.

The SJ officially supports a two-state solution in the Middle East conflict, with a strong emphasis on Palestinian self determination and borders regulated by United Nations Resolution 181 (II).

On June 3, 1894, a founding assembly was held in Ottakring, leading to the formation of a committee tasked with drafting statutes and obtaining approval for the association's establishment from the authorities.

Young activists protested against the mistreatment of apprentices, facing opposition through the creation of "Black Lists" by guilds and the exclusion of prominent speakers and politically active individuals from apprenticeships.

[19] As there was no dedicated means of relaying information, the association was forced to hand out laboriously crafted and manually reproduced pamphlets, limiting the potential of rapid expansion.

It successfully engaged prominent party leaders, including Leopold Winarsky, for popular "commemorative articles" or short biographies of great figures in socialism.

Despite prioritizing the fight against militarism at the forefront of the political agenda, the youth organizations, including the Austrian and German Social Democrats, were unable to prevent the outbreak of the First World War.

With attacks on the social achievements of the labor movement, the capital targeted the socialist youth, and during this time, a significant number of SAJ members faced unemployment.

A telling example of the reactionary nature of Austria's bourgeois parties at the time is the ban of the screening of Erich Maria Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front" in 1931.

As a successor organization from the prohibited SDAPÖ, and from the SAJ, on February 19, 1934 the "Revolutionäre Sozialistische Jugend" (RSJ) (English: Revolutionary Socialist Youth) emerged.

Josef Gerl, a Viennese RSJ functionary, was executed on July 24, 1934, due to a denied pardon request by Austrofascist Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss.

Particularly, the material assistance generously provided by the Sudeten German and other associations, along with the diverse ways of political and moral support, proved to be extremely valuable.

Against the dominance of the right-wing majority in the SJl (Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Germany, Czechoslovakia, and others), which also included the chairpersons (Koos Vorrink 1932-1935, Hans Christian Hansen 1935-1939, Torsten Nilsson from 1939), the secretary (Erich Ollenhauer), and most of the Bureau and Executive Committee members, a radical opposition formed primarily around France and Belgium.

"The Belgian comrades", declared their representative at the Executive Committee meeting on March 31 and April 1, 1937, in Brussels, "miss the necessary initiative in the leadership of the International and regret the lack of revolutionary solutions.

In 1936, when oppositional associations from France, Belgium, and Italy convened a special conference in Toulouse, proposing the formation of a working group of revolutionary socialist youth (a so-called Left bloc) and suggesting the division of the SJI into political and cultural sections, a split was narrowly avoided with the approval of other organizations.

Austrian representatives strongly opposed this stance, arguing that the German working class did not anticipate liberation from fascism through a new war, but demanded that powers refrain from aiding Hitler's further expansion.

Following the eruption of the military uprising, the socialist workers' movement, including the SJI and its affiliated associations, swiftly initiated extensive political and material support measures for the legal republican government.

In pursuit of the Spanish struggle for freedom, the SJI leadership transcended its anti-communist stance and unanimously integrated the United Socialist Youth of Spain.

Its predecessor, "Stimme der Jugend" (English: Voice of the Youth), first appeared immediately after the end of World War II but was banned after several warnings by the Soviet occupying forces.

During a large demonstration by the Austrian Resistance Movement, which was also supported by the SJ, KPÖ member Ernst Kirchweger was killed by violent young fascists.

Key issues at that time included reducing working hours, addressing peace concerns, and positioning against the construction of the Zwentendorf nuclear power plant.

On other issues as well, the SJÖ positions itself much more radically than the parent party, advocating for the abolition of the Austrian Federal Army and the legalization of soft drugs (cannabis), for example.

After the coalition agreement between the SPÖ and ÖVP was concluded in January 2007, the SJ strongly opposed the party leadership, criticizing the lack of a social-democratic influence in the government document.

With the initiative "The Rich Must Pay", the SJ focused on advocating for wealth taxes in response to the global financial crisis, seeking allies and applying internal party pressure.

Just days before the festival, the right-wing extremist attacks on the summer camp of the Norwegian sister organization Workers' Youth League (AUF) took place.

In mid-2014, the SJ succeeded in bringing the issue of cannabis legalization back into the public debate with the relaunch of the campaign "Better to Get High and Make Love than to Drive Drunk".

There, chairwoman Julia Herr called for an end to the Black-Blue coalition government and new elections, arguing that Sebastian Kurz had made the corruption possible.

Following ongoing internal disputes within the SPÖ and significant losses in the state elections in Lower Austria and Carinthia, SJ chairman Paul Stich was the first to call for an early party congress to "clarify the leadership issue" and restore credibility.