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Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
For Real Jobs not Workfare - Youth Fight for Jobs protest outside Tesco, photo by Suzanne Beishon
22 February 2012
Main parties have no solution to youth unemployment
An audience of 200 gathered in Salford recently to discuss and debate the latest unemployment figures on BBC Radio 5 Live, writes Matt Whale, YFJ unemployed organiser and Jarrow marcher.
20 February 2012
Mass anger forces more companies to abandon workfare schemes
After protests hit London, Manchester and Leeds at the weekend, alongside an onslaught upon Tesco's presence in social media the company and others are feeling the squeeze
17 February 2012
Slave labour retail jobs scandal
Over the past few months the government's work experience scheme has come under increasing scrutiny. It attempts to introduce slave labour for the young unemployed
25 January 2012
Official figures show that in the three months up to November last year unemployment rose by another 118,000 to break the 2.5 million mark, writes Jaime Davies, South East Wales youth organiser.
11 November 2010
Stop the Con-Dems' slave labour scheme
Fight for real jobs! On 7 November the Con-Dem government leaked its plans to force the unemployed into unpaid slave labour, writes Paul Callanan, Youth Fight for Jobs.
7 July 2010
Housing benefit cuts - increasing homelessness
The budget changes to housing benefit will make the mass of working and middle class people far more insecure in their homes, writes The idea that 'an Englishman's home is his castle' clearly doesn't impress George Osborne!.
10 December 2008
Welfare 'reform' - fight these attacks
Editorial: The 'reforms' to welfare benefits announced in the Queen's Speech last week are an attack on some of the poorest people and families...
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