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Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
10 October 2012
Youth Fight for Jobs and Education fortnight of action 13-27 October
Join the hot autumn of protest!: We're in for the fight of our lives. Fee hikes, EMA scrapped, youth services cut to the bone, housing benefit cut and attacks on our democratic rights...
8 October 2012
YFJE condemns proposal to stop housing benefit for under 25s
Youth Fight for Jobs and Education plans a fortnight of protest against Tory cuts from 13th October 2012...
3 October 2012
Youth Fight for Jobs Scotland, together with the PCS Young Members Network, is organising a March for Jobs and Public Services against Austerity...
26 September 2012
Andrew Mitchell, the government chief whip who ranted at the police officer outside Downing Street has so far resisted calls to resign, but his lack of punishment puts into stark contrast the very different treatment the rich receive from the police compared to the rest of us...
12 September 2012
Youth Fight for Jobs in action! Coming events
March for a future!: In October 1932, thousands of outdoor relief workers in Belfast went on strike to fight for their dignity
12 September 2012
Global youth unemployment rises
Since the end of the Youth Fight for Jobs 2011 Jarrow March, youth unemployment figures have continued to rise internationally, currently standing at 13% overall; the highest rate in Europe is Spain at 52%, writes Lizi Gray, 2011 Jarrow marcher.
4 September 2012
YFJE hits back at Boris Johnson and DWP workfare scheme
Paul Callanan, YFJE (Youth Fight for Jobs and Education) national organiser said: "Having faced the wrath of young people over the work experience scheme, the government and the bosses are coming back for another crack at the whip...
22 August 2012
Bring back EMA: In Chelmsford, on Saturday 18 August, 400 trade unionists, socialists and other anti-racist campaigners marched around Chelmsford town square in protest at the English Defence League presence in the town that day, writes Sean Figg.
22 August 2012
Tottenham: a year since the riots
A year after the riots in London, the promised money agreed by London Mayor Boris Johnson and local government minister Eric Pickles to regenerate the riot areas has not materialised, writes Jane James, Haringey and Enfield Socialist Party.
8 August 2012
End the insane cycle of youth joblessness
In a dazzling display of talent a new generation of Olympians is breaking records. By brutal contrast, 75 million 16 - 24 year olds globally have been thrown on the scrapheap of unemployment
26 July 2012
YFJ protests against big business takeover of Cardiff
The 2012 Olympic games opened in Cardiff and anti-cuts campaigners were there to oppose the big business jamboree at a time when public services are being cut
24 July 2012
Austerity Games highlights plight of young people
As the world's eyes focus on the Olympics, young people from across the country arrived on Hackney Marshes, east London, to compete in the alternative Austerity Games.
Photo Paul Mattsson
11 July 2012
Fight for a future for the 99%
No jobs, no education, no future - that's the grim vision that the establishment politicians have for young people...
27 June 2012
Protest for affordable housing - join the Austerity Games
Claire Laker-Mansfield, Youth Fight for Jobs, said: "Cameron's latest comments on housing benefit for under 25s represent a cruel and vicious attack on young people...
Youth Fight for Jobs national meeting 10 June 2012, photo Socialist Party
13 June 2012
Youth Fight for Jobs national meeting
Organising the 'lost generation': On 10 June 50 young trade unionists, unemployed people and students from all over the UK attended a national meeting of Youth Fight for Jobs (YFJ), writes Helen Pattison.
13 June 2012
'Austerity Games' to highlight young people's plight
Young people and trade unionists from across the country will be sending teams to Hackney Marshes to compete in the 'Austerity Games' in the week before the Olympics
6 June 2012
Campaigning for EMA and youth services
Recently complaints have been made to local police about young people hanging around outside shops on King Street, Kidsgrove, near Stoke...
6 June 2012
YFJ condemns use of slave labour during Jubilee weekend
30 unpaid workers and another 50 on just £2.80 an hour were forced to work 14-hour shifts in illegal conditions on the day of the Jubilee Thames flotilla
25 May 2012
Youth unemployment sky-rocketing
According to the latest United Nations International Labour Organisation (ILO) report (Global Trends for Youth) the number of unemployed young people worldwide has risen by four million since 2007...
23 May 2012
Stockland Green march for jobs
Stockland Green Against the Cuts (SGAC) organised a successful protest and march for youth jobs in Erdington, Birmingham, on 19 May, writes Ted Smith.
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