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8 October 2011
Tories and their yes-men - can they walk the walk on the Jarrow march?
Media attacks Jarrow March 2011 Sarah Sachs-Eldridge, editor of the Socialist newspaper, lays down a challenge to Tory MP Robert Goodwill, and journalists Richard Alleyne from the Telegraph, Mark Branagan from the Independent and Robin Pierre of the Sun: Join the Jarrow march!
Youth Fight for Jobs Jarrow March 2011 launch demonstration in Jarrow, photo Paul Mattsson
5 October 2011
Danger: young people's futures at risk
As a gesture to battling rising youth unemployment, the previous Labour government launched the Future Jobs Fund (FJF) in 2009...
4 October 2011
On 1 October, Youth Fight for Jobs (YFJ) activists started a 330 mile march from Jarrow to London. See jarrowmarch11.com for daily reports. There follows a filmed interview on 1st October with the YFJ national organiser, and an article by the YFJ national chair that was carried in the Socialist before the march set off
Fighting fees - student demonstration in central London, photo Rob Sutton
28 September 2011
£6,000 uni fees? An offer we can refuse!
Students starting university this year face many obstacles to getting the most out of their time in higher education
28 September 2011
Today we are facing the same questions concerning jobs and living standards as they did 75 years ago, writes Dylan Hussey, college student, Hertfordshire.
28 September 2011
Why are you supporting the march?
Three-quarters of a century on, the young people recreating this famous march are sending an important message that our communities must never again be abandoned to pay for an economic crisis they did not cause, writes Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the PCS civil servants union.
27 September 2011
MEP to join Jarrow march against unemployment
Paul Murphy (Socialist Party MEP for Dublin) will be joining the Jarrow march for jobs for its final leg going into London at the end of its 330 mile journey from South Tyneside
26 September 2011
Stop council imposing £2,500 charge for the Jarrow March
South Tyneside council wants to charge young, unemployed people £2,500 to re-enact the Jarrow March 75 years on...
21 September 2011
Save Devon youth service: "time for young people to stand up"
An interview with Christi Kelly, organiser of 'Help Save Devon Youth Service'
21 September 2011
University - pay more, receive less
I was pained to learn that I would be saddled with £20,000 worth of debt when I leave university, when previous generations had been able to study effectively for free, writes Alex Wortley, Bristol.
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