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Membership card of the Italian Socialist Party

At the beginning , due to the characteristics of the Italian socialist movement, tied up to the municipalism, there were no real membership cards of the Party, because usually Circles and regional and provincial federative structures would distribute their own membership cards.
Only with the 1905 Statute the adhesion becomes a personal, centralized fact .
Since 1905, membership cards were printed by the Direction of the Italian Socialist Party, they had a one-year validity and they were very accurate in graphics.

Swiss Communist Youth Association

Mitgliedskarte für Walter Weber, Bern. Die schweizerische Arbeiterjugendbewegung hatte ihren Höhepunkt während des Ersten Weltkriegs, als sie von Willi Münzenberg organisiert wurde. 1920 schloss sich die SJO der Kommunistischen Jugendinternationale an und änderte ihren Namen in Kommunistischer Jugendverband der Schweiz. Der KJV bildete eine kleine, aber aktive Kampfgemeinschaft.