The Socialist 4 February 2009

Workers show their strength

Lindsey refinery: workers show their strength

Firm strike leadership gains results

Organising real trade unionism

Response from Italy

Staythorpe power station: "It's all about money"

The diary of a striker

Striking at Fiddlers Ferry

United action needed to save education

Youth Fight for Jobs campaign

Gaza protests: Police attacks show stewarding vital

May Day: Lords judgement backs police

Corus steal jobs: Workers must fight back

Weather chaos exposes cutbacks

Car industry bailout plan

Wirral: Stop the cuts and closures

Fast news

Liverpool: Far right BNP exposed

Sri Lanka: Stop the slaughter!

Sri Lanka: Thousands trapped in war zone

France: millions strike against Sarkozy's policies

Economic crisis - cracks appear in the bosses' EU

Iceland: Devastated by global crisis

Lessons of the Jarrow Crusade: no return to the 1930s!

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Youth Fight for Jobs campaign

Good response in Bridgend

Three, let's be generous and say, more 'mature' Socialist Party members, launched the 'Youth Fight For Jobs' campaign on our stall in Bridgend on 31 January.

The response was tremendous, with 37 papers sold, £32 fighting fund raised and one potential member. Parents as well as young people took away our jobs leaflets and everyone was nodding their approval of our slogans - Fight for jobs, support the workers not the bankers!

The media propaganda about keeping out foreign workers and having British jobs for British workers was raised at the stall but we responded by saying there were no jobs available for any workers because of the bosses' crisis.

We were selling opposite a closed Woolies and pointed out that foreign workers were not to blame for the 30,000 jobs lost there recently. Similarly foreign workers are not responsible for the redundancies and lay-offs in Corus or Fords in Bridgend. It's the system that's wrong and that's why we are fighting for socialist nationalisation and a socialist answer to the capitalist crisis.

Our arguments received a positive response, especially when we raised about the need to fight for young people to have a future with decent jobs and a proper wage.

This campaign is going to get a big echo in the coming months as the Socialist Party takes the fight for jobs into every town and city in the country.

Alec Thraves

Building trade union support in Newcastle

Newcastle Socialist Party branch has acquired support from trade unionists for the Youth Fight for Jobs campaign. This includes newly elected North West and Manchester RMT national executive member Craig Johnston who is also now openly supporting the Campaign for a New Workers Party.

Other Youth Fight for Jobs supporters include civil service union PCS national executive member Kevin McHugh, North East RMT national executive member Bob Potts and North East RMT regional organiser Stan Herschel.