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1 September 2020
No Covid penalty on our future
With youth unemployment expected to skyrocket, Young Socialists and Youth Fight for Jobs will be out once again on Saturday 12 September
18 April 2018
It's one world for the super-rich, and another for the rest of us. World's first billionaire; banker frets about Marx; paupers' funerals; fake apprenticeships
29 March 2017
Ferrybridge workers protest against 'race to bottom'
Construction workers protested outside Ferrybridge power station, Yorkshire on 29 March.
26 October 2016
Jarrow March: an inspiring show of solidarity between workers and youth
Five years ago, marking the 75th anniversary of 200 unemployed workers marching from Jarrow to London, Youth Fight for Jobs followed in their footsteps
30 September 2015
Lessons from the past: Liverpool City Council 1983-87
From 1983 to 1987 Liverpool was led by supporters of Militant (predecessor of the Socialist), who at the time were members of the Labour Party. When faced with cuts from central government, they refused to pass them on.
9 September 2015
Workers racked by 19% rise in zero-hour contracts
Many workers don't know how much work they will get from each week to the next.
8 July 2015
Stop hammering low-paid - £10 an hour now!
"David Cameron claims that he wants a high wage, low tax economy. If that's the case, he has a funny way of showing it," writes bakers' union BFAWU president Ian Hodson.
25 February 2015
With the approaching general election, many young people, like me, are looking for answers to the multitude of problems over jobs, pay, housing, and education, etc, writes Tanis Belsham-Wray, Leeds Socialist Party
21 January 2015
Youth unemployment: anxiety and anger
A new report by the Prince's Trust shows the devastating impact of unemployment on young people in Britain
5 February 2014
Osborne claims recovery - super-exploitation is reality
In October last year I began my apprenticeship as a spray painter. This has not offered a route out of poverty. With an hourly wage of £3.52 an hour, it has just been a route to super-exploitation
16 January 2013
Tory minister lies about 'lategate'...
... and offers no solution to youth joblessness: Well-rested Tory Business Minister, Matthew Hancock, who overslept and missed a TV debate with Youth Fight for Jobs supporter, Ian Pattison, has lied about how late he actually was...
22 August 2012
Doors close after A-level results
In mid-August thousands of young people received their A-level results. These young people will be the first to pay the higher £9,000 tuition fees and so it's no surprise that applications by English...
9 May 2012
I am a young mother with two beautiful children and have decided to join the Socialist party. I was brought up by my family with socialist views and ideas.
22 February 2012
As unemployment rises the vultures are circling. Among the biggest is Tesco. But they met huge opposition when they advertised a full-time, permanent position for which you would receive a meagre dole payment plus expenses
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...
2 November 2011
Liverpool council 'does its best' for the bankers
In rejecting the option to stand up and fight for Liverpool's hard-pressed working families, council leader Joe Anderson, at Liverpool council's Question Time public consultation on 27 October, claimed that he was doing his best for the people of the city, writes Tony Mulhearn.
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...
Youth Fight for Jobs :: March for Jobs :: Jarrow to London :: October 2011
7 September 2011
75 years ago 200 unemployed men from Jarrow marched from their home in the North East to London to demand jobs and an end to their poverty conditions. Youth Fight for Jobs is marching their route again
We won't be a lost generation
31 August 2011
We won't be a lost generation - fight for jobs and education
March for jobs: "Jobless figures show the real risk of creating a lost generation," read a headline in the Evening Standard on 17 August
9 September 2010
No to slave labour apprenticeships!
The lack of college places means that those young people who find themselves among the 150,000 failed university applicants will now start looking for alternatives...
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