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Youth Fight for Jobs march
3 March 2011
Jarrow to London: March for jobs
Join the march! Youth Fight for Jobs is organising a march in the footsteps of the Jarrow crusaders, to demand decent jobs and the right to education for all.
23 February 2011
Youth unemployment: No return to the 1930s!
THE LATEST figures show youth unemployment rose by 66,000 in the three months to last December. This means that more than 20% of 16-24 year olds are currently unemployed, a new record. As more central...
21 February 2011
Restaging of Jarrow March for Jobs on 75th anniversary: October 2011 will mark the 75th anniversary of the Jarrow march against unemployment
Young people march
16 February 2011
Youth unemployment figures leap up again to 965,000
Press release: Workers and students will demonstrate outside Connexions in Lewisham on Friday 18 March against youth unemployment and the closure of Connexions and Opening Doors.
9 February 2011
Volunteering 'plaster' for unemployment
On 7 February the government approved plans for charities including the Prince's Trust to set up stalls in Jobcentre Plus offices across the country...
The campaign built by Liverpool city council in 1983-87 to win extra funding inspired thousands of workers, photo Militant
2 February 2011
'Struggle or starve!' 1932 - when Birkenhead workers beat the means test
To the present generation of workers and young people, the phrase 'means test' probably means little, writes Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary.
26 January 2011
No to sky-high youth unemployment!
The recent announcement of the latest unemployment figures confirmed what most of us already knew. The number of people out of work jumped by 49,000 to 2.5 million in the three months to November 2010...
26 January 2011
As Unemployment figures jumped again, Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) civil servants in the PCS union were taking strike action to provide a decent service to claimants...
Tunisians defied the repressive forces of the state to overthrow the dictator, president Ben Ali
19 January 2011
WIDESPREAD PROTESTS over unemployment, high food prices and a lack of democratic rights has resulted in a popular uprising in Tunisia and the overthrow of its hated dictator, president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.
Chahid Gashir, a member of the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI), reports on the uprising, its international impact and what programme is necessary to take the revolution forward.
19 January 2011
Urgent action needed to end youth unemployment
As the Con-Dem coalition and Labour engage in pointless bickering over who "caused" the current problem with youth unemployment, the fact remains that nothing is being done to combat it...
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