labor. In March 1918, the socialist Workers Youth Central (Dutch: ArbeidersJeugdCentrale, AJC) emerged, which was founded as a youth organization by the
organisation VARA and the paper Het Vrije Volk. The youth organisation Arbeiders Jeugdcentrale (Workers' Youth Central, AJC) was a large youth organisation
more for social democracy. In 1925 she became a member of the ArbeidersJeugdCentrale, the youth movement of the Social Democratic Party. Shortly thereafter
De Raat joined the socialist Workers Youth Central [nl] (AJC, ArbeidersJeugdCentrale), the youth wing of the Social Democratic Workers' Party, becoming