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Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
29 February 2012
Student walkout - build mass action
The National Union of Students (NUS) has called a walkout against cuts and privatisation for 14 March, writes Claire Laker-Mansfield, Socialist Students national organiser.
29 February 2012
Interview with a jobcentre worker
What workfare really means: Workfare is a catch-all term used to describe the various unpaid work schemes the government operates through the Department for Work and Pensions
29 February 2012
'We want jobs - not slave labour!'
Paul Callanan, YFJ national organiser, explains YFJ's campaign for investment in real jobs and its opposition to the government’s slave labour schemes
29 February 2012
Workfare? Fair it's certainly not! The bankers help cause the biggest economic crisis in generations and get rewarded with billions. Yet ordinary people are now being told to work for free.
29 February 2012
A4e: workfare vultures in crisis
On Friday 24 February, as a storm of public anger grew around the Con-Dem government's cheap slave labour workfare schemes, Youth Fight for Jobs protested outside the office of A4e in Westminster armed with chants of "A, A, A4e, tell them we won't work for free!", writes Ian Pattison, Youth Fight for Jobs.
29 February 2012
Vested interests: Sometimes it seems strange that the government continues to railroad its most unpopular policies - like the move towards NHS privatisation - through...
28 February 2012
YFJ expresses solidarity with Occupy London
In the early hours of Tuesday 28 February riot police brutally evicted the peaceful Occupy London protesters from their camp outside St Paul's Cathedral, which was set up on 15 October last year...
28 February 2012
PCS says Barclays tax could fund proper jobs for youth
The £500 million in avoided tax that Barclays bank will now have to pay could fund full-time jobs above the living wage for all the young people who have been working for free under the government 'work experience' scheme...
27 February 2012
Protests saying 'no' to slave labour workfare
Lewisham Socialist Party members held a very lively protest outside McDonalds on Saturday. Other protests took place in Cardiff and elsewhere
27 February 2012
Fighting workfare - YFJ to target McDonalds
Paul Callanan, national organiser of Youth Fight for Jobs said: "After the success of the demonstration at Westfield shopping centre in East London on Saturday we are now going to step up the action...
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