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Youth Fight for Jobs, photo Sarah Mayo |
1 September 2010
Our future under attack
Fightback! Join the day of action on 20 October It seems that £30,000 a year can almost guarantee you top grades in your A-levels. This year, students from private schools were more than twice as likely to get the new A* grades as those from comprehensives.
Suraj Shah and Ben Robinson, Youth Fight for Jobs, say life is different for those who go to state schools...
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19 August 2010
We won't be a Lost Generation: Protest: Saturday 21 August 2010
Youth Fight for Jobs is calling a demonstration on Saturday 21 August against the government's brutal attacks on access to education.
It will be at 4pm, outside the department for Business, Innovation and Skills, 1 Victoria Street, London SW1H OET.
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18 August 2010
Student demo should be start of the fightback
With thousands of young people being denied a university place, facing a substandard education, forced into low paid work or left on the scrapheap of unemployment, a nationally organised fightback is essential, writes Claire Laker-Mansfield, Socialist Students national organiser.
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12 August 2010
'Lost generation' forced on dole and excluded from university
Youth Fight for Jobs - Press Release: The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has warned that there is a "risk of a crisis legacy of a lost generation", writes Paul Callanan, 23, unemployed and a member of the national steering committee of Youth Fight for Jobs said:.
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13 July 2010
Merseyside Youth Fight For Jobs Campaign meeting
Date - Tuesday 13th July:
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7 July 2010
Youth Fight for Jobs Protest!
Youth Fight for Jobs will be protesting outside the Department for Business Innovation and Skills against the brutal attacks that young people face and to demand real jobs and free education.
Saturday 21 August 4pm
Department for Business Innovation and Skills
1 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0ET
Call 07716 610893 for details
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Youth Fight for Jobs demo in Barking, East London, photo Paul Mattsson |
7 July 2010
NUS anti-cuts conference
Action needed: On 29 June, the National Union of Students (NUS) held a hastily organised conference to discuss the massive cuts looming in higher education...
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7 July 2010
Hull: Rallying against the austerity budget
AROUND 100 trade unionists gathered in Hull city centre on Saturday 3 July to protest at the shocking cuts coming to the public sector following the Con-Dem budget, writes Jack Walker.
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23 June 2010
Young people: fight for your future!
The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show that unemployment has risen by 23,000 since April. On average there are five benefit claimants for every one job vacancy throughout the UK. This is the grim reality of how ordinary people are being affected by the crisis, writes Mark Nicholson.
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23 June 2010
Youth speak for jobs at UCU union rally
I was invited to address the UCU union's day of action rally in Nottingham on Sunday on behalf of Youth Fight for Jobs, writes Jethro Waldron.
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