On September 1, the majority of the Syriza Youth‘s leadership signed the following statement. Eight out of the eleven Left Platform members in the organization’s leadership had already resigned by that point.

While the Syriza Youth was always affiliated with its namesake party, it maintained organizational and political autonomy. And despite its modest size — fluctuating between 2,000 and 2,500 members — it was a force in Greece’s influential student movement.

Rifts developed between the Youth and its parent formation over Syriza’s handling of eurozone negotiations, particularly in the wake of the July 5 referendum. After Alexis Tsipras opted to call a snap election, ignoring the party’s desire for a conference before such a decision, approximately 500 former members of the Youth signed the statement signaling the “end of the Youth Branch as we know it.”