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The Republican Socialist Youth Movement is the youth-wing of the Irish Republican Socialist Party.

Originally formed in the Market area of Belfast in 1981, with the name the 'Patsy O'Hara Youth Movement' after the 1981 Hunger striker. The Patsy O'Hara Youth Movement published a news-sheet called 'Venceremos' between 1981 and 1982. Some future leading members of the IRSP such as Thomas "Ta" Power, John O'Reilly and Gino Gallagher were previously members. By the mid-1980s the group had a presence in the Market, Lower Ormeau, Short Strand and the Divis Flats.

By the 1990s, it had become inactive, and was re-established with the current name in 2005.

In 2021, following a canvas by the far-right Síol na hÉireann in Creggan, the RSYM painted graffiti in the area attacking it's leader, Niall McConnell, describing him as a racist and accompanied by a statement on their social media telling him he "would not be welcome back in the area".

In 2022, members of the RSYM erected Soviet flags in Derry and posed at the Free Derry corner with their own flag alongside the a flag of Lenin and a flag of the breakaway Donetsk People's Republic. Signs were also attached to lamp posts opposing NATO. It was condemned by a local SDLP councillor.

In August 2023, the RSYM worked with the Bogside Republican Youth to replace the annual anti-internment bonfires at Meenan Square in the Bogside with community events instead to prevent anti-social behaviour and fighting among youths.

In October 2023, the Free Derry Corner was repainted with Palestinian flags by the RSYM, accompanied by "Ireland supports Palestinian resistance". Later that month, members of the RSYM projected lights reflecting the Palestinian national colours onto the walls of Derry to show their support for the "Palestinian resistance" during the Gaza offensive.