THE RIGHT TO A DECENT JOB FOR ALL, WITH A LIVING WAGE OF AT LEAST £8 AN HOUR
NO TO CHEAP LABOUR APPRENTICESHIPS! ALL APPRENTICESHIPS TO PAY AT LEAST THE MINIMUM WAGE, WITH A JOB GUARANTEED AT THE END
NO TO UNIVERSITY FEES. SUPPORT THE CAMPAIGN TO DEFEAT FEES
Fightback! Join the day of action on 20 October
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Youth Fight for Jobs, photo Paul Mattsson |
Our future under attack: It seems that £30,000 a year can almost guarantee you top grades in your A-levels. This year, students from private schools were more than twice as likely to get the new A* grades as those from comprehensives.
Suraj Shah and Ben Robinson, Youth Fight for Jobs
Of course, life is different for the overwhelming majority who go to state schools. Here, the reality of the government's cuts make academic achievement much harder.
The Con-Dem coalition is proposing savage attacks on further education colleges which will probably be increased in the October spending review. The cuts across the sector are set to be £343 million. The lecturers union, UCU, thinks this will amount to 34,000 job losses.
We won't be a lost generation, fight for jobs and education!
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Youth march for education |
The statistics range wildly but one thing is obvious - young people's plans for the future are being dashed, writes Ben Robinson.
Tens of thousands of college leavers are having the university door slammed in their faces. Not because they can’t perform in exams. Not even because they’re not prepared to get into the huge amounts of debt demanded by the fees system.
No to privatisation of our universities
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Marching for free education, photo Paul Mattsson |
As well as huge cuts, the Con-Dem government's agenda for higher education includes throwing open the doors to the creation of private universities.
Private company, BPP which already has sites across the country running business and law degrees, has now been awarded university college status.
For real jobs, not slave labour
The Tories' new youth service plan is the latest attempt to use young people as free labour. Billed as "non-military national service", it will offer 16 year olds an eight week programme of volunteering...
Harder work, longer hours... all part and parcel?
"ENOUGH IS enough" by Donna Summer and Barbara Striesand may not be the greatest song ever but the title illustrates the mindset of many a modern day worker, writes Martyn Yates.
No to higher university fees! For a fighting strategy
To all campaigns, activists and student unions fighting cuts and fees,
Our generation faces unprecedented attacks on education. Already the cuts slaughter began by New Labour in universities, is being extended by the new CON-DEM government.
Future Jobs scam: attacks on young unemployed
The Future Jobs Scheme is the government's new initiative aimed at getting young people back into work. But it appears to be more about driving the young unemployed off benefits, writes Vincent Leonard.
Rebuilding traditions of struggle
May Day march in Hull: Hull Youth Fight for Jobs will call a march through the city centre to mark May Day. It has been many years since May Day was last celebrated in Hull and the demonstration is the culmination of the efforts...
Unite and UCU add their support to Youth Fight for Jobs
Both UCU, the union for academic staff in universities and colleges, and Unite, Britain's biggest trade union whose British Airways members are currently on strike, unanimously agreed to back the Youth Fight for Jobs campaign at their annual conferences.
Will new government halt unemployment?
The latest unemployment figures saw those looking for a job top 2.5 million, 16-17 unemployment rise by 4.4%, and the number of economically inactive reach its highest ever levels. But neither the Conservative or Liberal Democrat wing of this new government has proposed serious measures to provide jobs for workers and young people, facing the brunt of this ongoing crisis. Instead the headlines are £6 billion cuts in public services to reassure the ‘markets’, code for multi-billionaires like George Soros and co.
Youth speak for jobs at UCU union rally
I was invited to address the UCU union's day of action rally in Nottingham on Sunday on behalf of Youth Fight for Jobs, writes Jethro Waldron.
RMT union challenges far-right in Barking
THE RMT rail workers' union called a meeting in Barking on Sunday 11 April. The aim was to convince people in Barking, who are understandably angry with New Labour's cuts record, not to vote for the far-right, racist British National Party in protest...
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New pamphlet: Our education under attack: This is a new pamphlet on how to fight the cuts and increases in fees by members of socialist students and youth fight for jobs...
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