I wonder if anyone from the DSA or YDSA has thought about re-establishing the Red Falcons of America. It was a scout-like organization established in the 1930s by the Socialist Party of America as a member of the German-founded International Falcon Movement, and was expressly purposed to be a non-sectarian, social justice-oriented alternative to both “militaristic” Boy Scouts and “fatalistic” Sunday schools.

This was intended to fill the age gap between the Socialist Sunday schools movement (up to 10yo) and the Young People’s Socialist League (from 14yo up), and to engage children between 8 and 15 years old with athletics, songs, campfires, games, art and study.

Of course, the Red Falcons likely died out between the 1930s and 1940s and the , while the International Falcon Movement’s other member scout-like organizations have expanded their curriculum to include renewable energy and environmental consciousness. Today, the premiere socialist organization in the United States is the DSA, the premiere socialist youth activism organization is YDSA, but what is the premiere socialist youth volunteerism/education organization?

The closest progressive-oriented scout-like organization I’ve encountered is Navigators USA, which was established as an all-gender, secular alternative to BSA which the Unitarian Universalist Association would be okay with recommending (yes, it still exists). But a socialist equivalent to Navigators USA would, IMO, teach what Navigators USA is teaching plus what (Y)DSA is teaching.