The League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class (LSEWC) was a Marxist group in the Russian Empire. It was founded in St. Petersburg by Vladimir Lenin, Julius Martov, Gleb Krzhizhanovsky, Anatoly Vaneyev, Alexander Malchenko, Pyotr Zaporozhets and Vasily Starkov in the autumn of 1895. It united twenty different Marxist study circles, but Lenin dominated the league through the 'central group'. Its main activity was agitation amongst the workers of St. Petersburg and the distribution of socialist leaflets to the factories there.
- Headquarters
- Russian Empire, Saint Petersburg
- Inception
- 1895
