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Croxteth Comprehensive School (1)
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Youth Fight for Education (12)
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Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
8 February 2012
The Olympics will be staged in London this summer. The Con-Dems and their big business friends expect that the Games and the Queen's Golden Jubilee in June will bring tourists, consumer spending and profits
November 24th student demonstrations against tuition fees rises and the abolition of the EMA, photo Senan
8 February 2012
Students drop out of college without EMA
In late 2010, as thousands of college students took to the streets against the vicious scrapping of weekly EMA payments for 16-19 year old students, the government insultingly labelled the grant as 'frivolous', writes Claire Laker-Mansfield, Socialist Students national organiser.
1 February 2012
Save Derbyshire youth services!
On the afternoon of Monday 30 January over 100 people held a rally and march in Chesterfield before the first consultation meeting into the future of youth services in Derbyshire, writes Becci Heagney.
18 January 2012
Anger swells in 'lost generation'
Ian Pattison, Youth Fight for Jobs spokesperson said "Young people struggling to find work have again been dealt a devastating blow..."
The Jarrow March for Jobs 2011 ends with a demonstration in London on 5 November , photo Sujeeth
11 January 2012
Reject slave labour for young unemployed
"Thanks but no thanks": In October, Youth Fight for Jobs (YFJ) activists, marched over 300 miles from Jarrow to London to hand a petition into Downing Street demanding job creation instead of workfare, bringing back EMA student payments, scrapping tuition fees, saving youth services and building affordable housing...
Bankers are the real looters: placard on Hackney - Tottenham demo after the riots , photo by Paul Mattsson
14 December 2011
Unacceptable! Draconian sentences for Dundee 'Facebook riot' teenagers
There is anger and disbelief in Dundee at the jailing of teenagers who were involved in joke Facebook pages 'organising riots', writes Matt Dobson, Socialist Party Scotland, Dundee.
7 December 2011
A Guardian/London School of Economics study has shown that Britain's summer 'riots' were fuelled by anger at injustice, the lack of money, jobs and opportunity, and how young people "felt they were treated compared with others", writes Suzanne Beishon, Youth Fight for Jobs.
30 November 2011
Usdaw: Fighting against the policies of 'social partnership'
Activist is the paper of Socialist Party members in the shop workers' union Usdaw. Recently it carried an article explaining how, after 12 years, Robbie Segal has decided not to stand for re-election...
Youth Fight for Jobs Jarrow March 2011 launch demonstration in Jarrow, photo Paul Mattsson
30 November 2011
Preparing the ground for a mass movement of young people: On 1 October a group of young people from every corner of the country - mostly strangers to each other - gathered in Jarrow, just south east of Newcastle, writes Sean Figg, Jarrow marcher.
Jarrow March for Jobs
23 November 2011
Millions unemployed - workers and students must unite and fight!
Unemployment is now 2.62 million in the UK, and youth unemployment stands at 1.2 million - the highest number since records began, writes Alex Moore, Jarrow marcher.
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