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Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
15 December 2009
Video: Out on the stones - saving Deptford Job Centre
Lewisham Socialist Party councillors Ian Page and Chris Flood came to the aid of the unemployed of Deptford, London, and the job centre workers at Deptford Job Centre, organised in the civil servants union, the PCS (Public and Commercial Services union)...
Youth Fight For Jobs march 2 April 2009, photo Paul Mattsson
24 November 2009
Young people fight for a future: All parents hope that their children will have better opportunities than were available to them. Today, for millions of working and middle class families, those hopes lie in ruins. The bleak and insecure...
22 November 2009
1 million unemployed young people: Demonstrate this saturday!
Youth Fight for Jobs - for real jobs Assemble 12 noon, Malet Street, central london, WC1E. Nearest tube Euston / Russell Square.
Youth Fight For Jobs march 2 April 2009, photo Paul Mattsson
4 November 2009
1,000,000 young unemployed: It is hard to imagine what was going through the heads of the producers of ITV's Tonight show when they decided the best person to 'advise' unemployed youth on how to improve their job prospects was... Lord Alan Sugar! Sean Figg, Youth Fight for Jobs national organiser, writes.
4 November 2009
Trade unionists must fight for decent benefits for all
Sick and disabled under attack: THE PRO-big business parties, New Labour, Tories and LibDems, vied with each other at their party conferences with zealous plans to make the working class pay for the economic and financial crisis, writes Jim Horton, welfare rights adviser, north London.
21 October 2009
Giant energy company hounds unemployed electrician
Blacklisted electrician and Unite member Steve Acheson has been protesting outside Fiddlers Ferry power station, Warrington, since his unfair dismissal by contractors in December 2008, writes A Merseyside Socialist Party member.
22 September 2009
Youth unemployment hits record level
THE ANNOUNCEMENT by the government on Wednesday 16 September of 2.5 million unemployed was met by public protests organised by Youth Fight for Jobs (YFJ)...
Youth Fight For Jobs march 2 April 2009, photo Paul Mattsson
9 September 2009
One million unemployed young people: 'We demand real jobs!'
The head of the International Monetary Fund told a recent meeting of G20 finance ministers that the economic crisis has shifted from finance to a "third phase" of high unemployment, writes Ben Norman, Portsmouth Youth Fight for Jobs.
8 July 2009
Private companies caught in jobcentre scam
The recent media coverage of the fraud of the private sector companies who are being paid to provide help to the long-term unemployed comes as no surprise to PCS union members working in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), writes Katrine Williams, PCS DWP group vice president, personal capacity.
5 February 2009
Lessons of the Jarrow Crusade: no return to the 1930s!
Economic recession with growing unemployment, poverty and deprivation - these are some of the spectres facing working-class and young people across Britain and the world. These problems were also faced by workers and youth in the 1930s.
Greg Maughan looks at the great Jarrow Crusade of the unemployed and draws out some of the lessons for fighting job cuts today.
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