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New GCSE’s will penalise dyslexic students

February 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Dyslexia groups have condemned a government proposal to improve ‘communication skills’ by awarding 5% of marks for spelling, punctuation and grammar.

Charities and campaigners say the move will make it harder for hundreds of thousands of young people with a genuine learning disability to get the grades they need.

The government said the new marking scheme – due to come into effect from September – will make no allowances for students with dyslexia.

Furthermore, many teachers and parent are becoming concerned at the exodus of specially-trained teachers and assistants from our schools. While students with recongnised learning disabilities can get up to 25% extra time in exams, the application process is complicated and without specialist staff in schools, many students do not benefit.

A £10m scheme launched by Labour in 2009 to train 4000 specialist dyslexia teachers has been shredded by the coalition. Many of the teachers are being made redundant from new ‘academies’ and ‘free schools’ who don’t want the cost of shelling out for specialist teaching.

Government policy is fusing perfectly with the interests of big business who want to exploit the profit potential within the education system.

Paying for the intensive, specialist services that a proper education requires is not a priority for these businesses. Instead they want to cream off the top students, packing them into grade-factories, whose schools hover at the top of the league tables, ensuring plenty of cash-flow and credibility for the ‘sponsor’.

We oppose the government’s attempts to dump its responsibility for education. We have a social responsibility to provide the best education possible. To do that we need to put our schools, curriculum and exam boards under the democratic control of teachers and students – not subjecting education to the profit-logic of the market.

 

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Disability in an age of austerity

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NUS ducks united action – we can make it happen

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Barclays sinks millions into education gold-rush

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Homeless youth have no stake in Big Society

December 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment

A recent study found that 13,000 young people went to local authorities in October to declare themselves homeless; this number will be higher as there will be some who didn’t declare themselves.

In addition to this the number sleeping rough inLondonalone since April is already up 32% on the whole of last year.

This is in line with last month’s unemployment figures which showed that over a million 16-24 years old are unable to get a job. Without an address it is near-impossible to receive any Job Seekers Allowance or to be able to look for a job.

As benefits are also being cut and jobs are been lost, many teenagers are been asked to move out of their family home with nowhere else to go.

The true extent of this grim problem is that a lot of youth who are sleeping rough won’t seek help. Family breakdown, usually due to financial problems is the main cause of youth homelessness and that they’re too embarrassed or ashamed to go and seek help, or else think there isn’t any help available.

At the same time, youth have seen the EMA lifeline scrapped, tuition fees tripled and housing benefit and Child Support Allowance cuts. This puts huge pressure on families who are facing serious wage cuts, job losses, and home repossessions. The outcome is that young people with nowhere to go are turfed out onto the streets.

We have also seen massive decreases of youth services as councils are been made to make harsh cuts, leading to 75% cuts in youth service funding in many of Britiain’s most deprived boroughs. When services for the most vulnerable get cut, it makes it difficult for youth to receive services and help they need, especially if they can’t turn to their family. This simply makes a bad situation worse.

Young people living on the streets, particularly women, are incredibly vulnerable and rising cases of rape are the tragic consequence of the Tories austerity, which punishes young people for a crisis we didn’t cause.

Many of these attacks aren’t reported to the police as victims believe there is nothing they can do and that it could make their situation worse.

We need to end this situation now. We demand that youth are freed from the pressure of being a financial burden on their parents, by providing a living wage.

We need real investment in education, training and jobs – not token schemes forcing youth into unpaid shelf-stacking work.

Housing benefit must be available to all those over the age of 16 to enable young people to gain independence from the family and start making their own decisions about their career options.

We demand a reversal of the cuts to the connexions service, which has decimated on the few areas of support providing invaluable advice and guidance for young people.

We fight for an end to the discriminatory minimum wage which allows employers to pay young workers less than their co-workers for the doing the same job.

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Apprenticeships – who benefits?

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Apprenticeships – who benefits?

November 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Official figures put the number of 16-24 year olds not in education, employment or training at 1,163,000. The government has blamed this crisis on the previous government, the crisis in the Eurozone, the minimum wage and leaves on the track.

Youth unemployment has been stuck at more than a million for over a year, despite a barrage of government schemes to fiddle the figures and get young people into work.

The government has announced several ‘apprenticeship’ drives aimed at getting companies to invest in recruiting young people.

But last week revealed the truth behind these schemes amounts to little more than a government-backed subsidy for Britain’s richest companies – jobcentres rounding up young people and forcing them to work unpaid for 30 hours a week or face losing their jobseeker’s allowance.

Still, it’s well known that the Tories have extensive experience on boosting youth unemployment – Thatcher pioneered the tactic during the 80s, leaving a legacy which media pundits came to call the ‘lost generation’. A romantic epithet for a generation of young people blighted by criminalisation, drug addiction, poverty and precarious work.

In this article, Sally Turner examines the reality of apprenticeships in 21st century Britain – what are they, and who do they really benefit?

The Direct Gov. website puts it as ‘apprenticeships give you the chance to learn – and gain nationally recognised qualifications – while getting a weekly wage.’ Yet the £2.60 an hour wage for apprentices makes a mockery of the work done and ensures young people remain financially reliant on their parents.

If you apply to receive Job Seekers Allowance (JSA), as well as agreeing to look for work, you also have to sign up on the National Apprenticeships website where companies can view your profile and select you to work for them up to 40 hours a week. This does not take into account the individual circumstances, experience or qualifications of the applicant – it’s about ‘bums on seats’, providing cheap labour and manipulating jobless statistics.

The majority of the government’s new ‘apprenticeships’ don’t involve doing any trade work; they’re often simply doing an adult-training scheme within a supermarket or admin work, lasting just a few weeks with no job, qualifications or prospects at the end of it. However by branding it as apprenticeships, they can pay you way below the minimum wage, dictate your hours and show you the door whenever they like, so you’re back to the dole queue, and the company takes on its next batch of ‘apprentices’.

Of course, many apprenticeships are valuable opportunities for young people who can’t afford or don’t want to go to university and want to learn a trade or a qualification; however the amount of places to do a decent apprenticeship these days is completely insufficient; for example, each year British Gas provides so many places for apprentice to become gas fitters, and the ratio of applicants to places is higher than Oxbridge.

The lack of opportunities for skilled apprenticeships is the inevitable consequence of Thatcher’s de-industrialisation and Labour’s drive to get 50% of young people into university – the aim of which was to disguise the fact that youth unemployment has been unsustainably high for a generation, rather than investing in properly funded, suitable career guidance for young people. After all, the City of London which Cameron would have us believe is Britain’s salvation makes it money gambling on government debt – and it needs an army of low-paid, unqualified staff to grease the wheels, while a tiny minority of traders take home six-figure bonuses.

The Government’s new £1.4bn training scheme, intended to ameliorate youth unemployment, has seen a near 900% increase in the number of apprenticeships begun by those aged 60 and over.

This shocking figure shows the plight of older workers approaching retirement, who are sacked, and then unlikely to find new employment, but cannot survive on the meagre state pension, so forced to take up apprenticeships meant for young people just starting their working lives.

Meanwhile, graduate schemes and courses run by public sector bodies like the NHS intended to get young people with few qualifications and experience into secure, well-paid jobs are being taken up by over-qualified university graduates who can’t find employment matching their qualifications.

The same day that the ‘1 million youth unemployed’ hit the headlines (although it has been more than a million for over a year), Vince Cable pushed for more youth to get into apprenticeships – well show us the magic jobs tree, Vince!

Forget about the government’s announcements of ’25,000 new apprenticeships’, the real problem is 500,000 public sector job cuts, and the knock-on effect which will cost a million or more jobs in the private sector.

The answer to youth unemployment is real jobs, paying a real wage which enables young workers to set out on a career, pay rent and take home a decent living wage.

No-one is condemning shelf-stacking as menial or demeaning work, but when Tesco’s announces record profits of £3.5 billion, it’s clear that they’ve got the cash to employ workers and pay them a living wage. Instead their mates in government arrange an endless supply of free workers – paid for by the taxpayer.

The governments schemes forcing young people into useless ‘skills courses’ are simply a desperate attempt to massage the unemployment figures so that youth unemployment appears to decrease, rather than investing in the future by providing secure, well-paid work.

But the Tories can’t even fudge their own figures;  youth unemployment is rising month-on-month, and tens of thousands of young people are being rotated through demoralising, temporary ‘work placements’ which have no value to employers and do not give the applicant any new experience or skills – taxpayers pick up the tab, and big business pockets the profit.

What we need is massive government investment in the work which our society badly needs – a million new council homes could stop the housing crisis and provide employment for hundreds of thousands. We’d pay for it now by taxing the obscene wealth of the 1% and it would pay for itself many times over in the future when we are living in decent homes, in communities with decent infrastructure and facilities.

The Tories announced a scheme to subsidise mortgages, in order to get giant construction companies to build ’30,000 homes’ on land which they are refusing to build because its ‘not profitable’. At the same time these companies are slashing the wages of electricians by 35% – why would young people want to take up an apprenticeship in a trade which is seeing its working conditions wrecked by Tory party donors?

This is just one example of the millionaire government’s determination to look after its own class at our expense. From construction to the NHS, to education, the millionaire’s coalition is waging a class war to make ordinary people pay for the economic crisis. Young people are in the frontline, and far from having a solution, the government is determined to make us pay the most. They are spinning us a line, while selling our future.

 It’s time to organise our resistance.

  •  All apprenticeships to be paid the national minimum wage £6.08 an hour, or the trade union rate for the industry.
  • No to workfare – real jobs, not free labour
  • Free education for all
  • Massive investment in housing, education and training paid for by taxing the rich

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Youth unemployment must lead to rebellion

November 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment

CAPITALISM has proved itself unable to provide for young people across the world. Since the bailout of the banks and the beginning of the recent crisis young people have been forced to face the brunt of the bosses’ assault. In every country being young means you are more likely to be unemployed. There are almost a million young unemployed in Britain and in countries like Spain almost 40% of young people are out of work. The jobs available are often low paid, casual and temporary, meaning they are not enough to live off never mind enough to become an independent member of society.

Discriminatory laws have also eroded young workers rights, allowing us to be fired easier and often paid less. The failure of the trade union movement to include and organise young people has meant we have fallen easy prey when it comes to the rich deciding which section of the working class to target.

Yet, there has been fantastic resistance led by youth across the globe; young graduates rioting sparked the Arab spring, youth have occupied European town squares and last winter British students led the way in the fight back against ConDem austerity. Young people have shown they are willing to fight against this injustice and when they have fought back they have inspired the rest of the working class. By uniting with older workers; organising alongside them in assemblies and anti-cuts groups and joining with them in unions and on the street, the youth can oppose the austerity being forced upon them.

Youth and workers need to work together; by uniting the youth’s willingness to fight with the strength of the working class mobilised in strikes we can knock back the bosses and start working towards a better society in which the wealth, taken back off the millionaires, can create the decent, secure and useful jobs that young people deserve.

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Internships: a great opportunity (for the 1%)

November 5, 2011 By 1 Comment

We’ve all been in the unemployment trap at some point. Nobody will hire you unless you have ‘experience’, and you can’t get experience unless someone employs you. The longer you are unemployed for, the worse the problem becomes.

That’s why there’s increasing pressure for us to do internships. This is often unpaid work for a company with the ‘possibility’ of being hired at the end. However the vast majority of us don’t end up with being employed and a recent survey by Interns Anonymous found that half of interns have completed two or more internships previously. It is clearly just a way of companies using young people to get free work.

Internships can work quite well for the better off. You live off Daddy’s income for a while and get fastracked to a nice job in his PR company. But for the 99% it’s a different story.

Since its inception in 2009 the Government’s graduate talent pool website has listed more than 29,000 internships, however analysis by The Guardian suggests that more than half of these have been paid below minimum wage.

A growing number of companies are holding onto interns far longer than what ‘work experience’ would traditionally cover, yet still refuse to pay them.

Employment laws are clear; if people are adding to value of a company they are deemed workers and should be paid at least the national minimum wage. Which currently stand at £6.09 for workers aged 21 or over, £4.98 for 18-20 year olds and just £3.68 for 16 and 17 year olds. So how are companies allowed to get away with this? One said:

MadBid offers internships to people who would like to experience life in a fast-growing internet startup for a period of time. Interns receive a payment to help cover expenses. An internship in a young internet company can provide unique and valuable work experience in an exciting area of business.

An ‘exciting area of business?’ Who says? Increasingly, internships are being offered in some of the worse paid and most dull jobs in administration and direct sales. This isn’t about furthering careers, it’s about exploiting young people desperate for work.

Even the government’s own lawyers believe most interns are workers and deserve to be paid, but a recent survey found that the majority of interns only receive expenses and very few were paid on or above the minimum wage for their age group.

In the first of two briefings dated 15 July and 15 September 2010 advisers say ”the concept [of internships] has become endemic”. The documents were addressed to higher education minister David Willetts and Lib Dem junior minister Ed Davey, who is in charge of employment relations at BIS. Of the arts internships on the BIS website, a massive 92% were unpaid.

The TUC fears that internships are replacing paid work for young people and pushing down pay for those in work.

The Department for Work and Pensions has confirmed that government-run job-centres are recommending that unemployed youth take up long-term “work experience”, including positions at supermarkets, to help them gain further skills.

Legality

However two recent intern victories in employment tribunals suggest that those seeking back-pay for work done as an interns have a strong case for claiming hundreds of pounds in back pay.

At the same time, the Tories and businesses are calling for the scrapping of minimum wage as they believe it’s ‘too high’ and this is the reason young people don’t get employed.

This is meant to be the reason we have working tax credits, because people working in minimum wage jobs don’t earn enough to live off, so the government gives them subsidies – WTC – which in reality are subsidy from the taxpayer for mean bosses who don’t pay their workers enough.

What the Tories are suggesting is even worse – a race to the bottom and dire working poverty.

The richest people in the UK have seen their wealth double in the past year, while over a million young people are unable to find work and others are forced into unpaid internships or badly paid dead-end apprenticeships.

We say:

  • For a 99% tax on the 1%, funding decent, well paid and socially benefitial jobs.
  • If there’s not enough work, then cut the hours and not the jobs (with no loss of pay). Give youth a chance!
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Tories and media mock Jarrow marchers

October 8, 2011 By 1 Comment

On the 75th anniversary of the Jarrow march, a Tory MP has used Conservative Party rag the Daily Telegraph to mock unemployed youth in general and those taking part in the commemoration march organised by Youth Fight for Jobs.

The ‘journalists’ Richard Alleyne from the Telegraph, Mark Branagan from the Independent and Robin Pierre from the Sun have also joined in this despicable mocking of those who dare to take a stand against the attacks on young people which have seen funding for youth services slashed by 75%, university fees tripled and youth unemployment approaching 1,000,000.

In October 1936, during the Great Depression, 200 unemployed men marched from Jarrow to London to highlight the plight faced by those living in the North East of England. At that time, the town of Jarrow suffered an unemployment rate of 70%. The marchers carried a petition demanding support from the government signed by 12,000 people. On reaching London, the Tory Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, refused to see the marchers, claiming it would set a ‘dangerous precedent’. It is in this spirit which some journalists and MPs today mock those carrying out a second march.

The Tory MP for Scarborough, Robert Goodwill, said that the re-enactment was “an insult to the memory of the [original] Jarrow Marchers”. It beggars belief that any Tory MP dare to talk about respect for the Jarrow Marchers considering the complete disrespect shown by the Conservative Party of the day.

Goodwill then goes on to mock unemployed youth in general saying “”It must have been a big shock having to get up in the morning and march rather than watch Jeremy Kyle.” This from a man who has swindled the taxpayer out of nearly £150,000 in expenses, and who, during his time as an MEP, described it as a “challenge” to extract as much money as possible from the expenses system.

The so-called journalists who have covered the march in the Independent, Sun and Telegraph have filled their pieces with the kind of deliberate misinformation, falsification and outright lies that are usually the preserve of Fox News. For example, Richard Alleyne in the Telegraph tries to imply that because the march left Jarrow supported by a rally of 500 people, the fact the numbers of actual marchers is much lower signifies that young people in general are lazy, unmotivated and incapable of doing any kind of work. Nevermind that it was always the case that the entire length of the march would only be undertaken by a token number of marchers, who have nevertheless been met by large rallies in every town they have passed through.

The comments of this MP and journalists are as revealing as they are appalling. David Cameron crows about providing 200,000 apprenticeships – but neglects to point out to aspiring young people that these are not gateways to well-paid, skilled jobs, but actually training in shelf-stacking and cashier work for adults in supermarket jobs.

The situation of young people in this economic crisis is only getting worse. Of course this is not the 1930s – young people in Britain have running water, mobile phones and watch TV. But any idiot can point out the obvious – what we need is not mockery and disdain from thieving MPs and an overpaid, underworked media elite – but real solutions to a crisis caused by the capitalist system. A crisis which sees education, youth services and hospitals broken up, privatised and sold off to the same speculators and parasites who caused the crisis in the first place.

Youth Fight for Jobs have challenged Goodwill, Alleyne, Pierre and Branagan to join the march to demonstrate their commitment to highlighting the blight of youth unemployment. We at Revolution are not holding our breath, nor do we place any confidence in the token crocodile tears of this elite who are daily profiting from the poverty and misery of millions of ordinary people who have seen their jobs, pensions and living standards shredded during the government’s ‘austerity’ programme.

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Cuts and criminalisation

June 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Last year over 250,000 young people were arrested in Britain, including 22,135 10-13 year olds.

This comes at the same time as a study published by the Howard League for Penal Reform, which states that over 53,000 under-16s were held overnight in police cells between 2008-2009 (including 13,000 10-13 year olds), largely for minor offences such as shoplifting or drinking.

Even more worrying is the fact that only half of Britain’s police authorities actually responded to the Howard League’s Freedom of Information requests.

Frances Crook, director of the Howard League, said that “it appears children are being held in police cells for child protection reasons … This could be an increasing response to children in need as local authorities face cuts to children’s services.”1

Further research by the Howard League has shown that staff in privately-run Secure Training Centres, which are designed to “house vulnerable young people who are sentenced to custody or remanded to secure accommodation … [and] provide a secure environment where they can be educated and rehabilitated”, have been viciously assaulting young people in their care. There have been reports of officers in these centres attacking people in their care, resulting in broken wrists, elbows and teeth.

These incidences demonstrate the effects of the savage Con-Dem cuts on some of the most vulnerable people in society.

You only have to see the deplorable conditions in care homes which are almost entirely privately run to imagine what ‘competitive tendering’ will do for the weakest in our society.

With properly funded Children’s Services departments young people could receive the kind of care and support they need instead of being criminalised. Private control of Secure Training Centres means the managers are only accountable to shareholders, and more importantly, profit margins.

The brutal treatment of young offenders must stop. Yet the Con-Dem’s casual butchering of support services for parents and young people will  make a bad situation worse. Stopping the coalition’s offensive is therefore a vital step towards reversing the criminalisation of young people.

REVOLUTION is clear that the only way to do this is through a general strike to bring down the government.

Sign the call for a general strike here

 

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Youth take a hit for the bosses – time to fight back

June 17, 2011 By 1 Comment

As the government ramps up its slash-and-burn austerity, the numbers out of work are hitting the highest levels for decades. Among the millions for whom capitalism can find no useful work are more than 1 million 16-24 year olds, with 50% of young Black people unemployed.

A recent report revealed that there are only 3 regions in the country keen to increase employment for young people.

As hundreds of thousands of students return home looking for summer work, many employers have other ideas – fighting rising costs and low sales by cutting wages and jobs.

The survey found that West Yorkshire is the worst region for employing young people, with nearly two-thirds of companies saying they would not recruit within the age range of 18-24. This is incredibly worrying as the Tories cut EMA, triple tuition fees and yet young people can’t get the work to fund their education.

Recent data shows that tens of thousands of older workers are putting off retirement by remaining in employment beyond the state retirement age; this is due to pensions being cut massively, the pension age raised and wage-freezes which have meant in reality a 10% real-terms pay cut for millions of workers.

The effects of cuts to pay and pensions alongside profiteering by energy companies has contributed to a sharp rise in the number of workers taking on two or more jobs simply to earn enough money to feed their families. This means that around 25% of  people in Britain are regularly working more than 50 hours a week.

However we should not blame older workers for taking up jobs instead of retiring. Vicious cuts to education and jobs have left a million 16-24 year-olds not in education, employment or training. With universities slowly becoming the privilege of the rich and working for your dole a harsh reality for youth, it is clear that the blame lies squarely with the bosses and their 18% pay rises.

Apparently “employers blamed a lack of experience and poor timekeeping. They also said poor verbal and spoken communication skills, a lack of drive and commitment, poor written skills and inappropriate dress and appearance were other factors.”

Of course, without opportunities to get experience and develop in a working environment they’re not going to be able to excel.

Work for young people under capitalism means call-centres, check-outs and shelf-stacking. It is no surprise that young people don’t reach their full potential when faced with menial work in bad conditions with worse pay.

All this is to say nothing of the unacceptable age discrimination -  the consequences of stereotyping disabled people as “inarticulate, lazy and unmotivated” are rightly serious.

Yet employers are allowed to discriminate against young people and their work ethic using the most disparaging terms. This attitude is made official through the lower minimum wage rates for younger people doing the same work.

Ultimately this serves to reinforce young people’s dependence on their parents, which limits their ability to leave home to find work or study.

The credit crunch generation faces a job market which is ruthlessly shedding as many ‘surplus’ workers as possible as capitalists cut costs to protect their profits. Instead of gaining skills and experience, young people are swelling the ranks of the unemployed millions.

The Con-Dem’s way out of the crisis will come at the expense of our schools, jobs and public services – and young people have shown that we will fight back by any means necessary.

The Con-Dems are trying to wreck our services, our lives and our futures. In Egypt, Tunisia, Spain, France, Greece, Portugal, trade unions have organised general strikes supported by millions of people.

We believe it is time for a general strike in this country too, with the aim of stopping the cuts and breaking the ConDem coalition.

Add your name to the call here

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Spanish youth recreate Tahrir Square

May 18, 2011 By 1 Comment

The revolutionary spirit of Cairo has reached Madrid, where thousands of Spanish youth have been camping out in the city-centre in a protest against youth unemployment.

Spain has the highest unemployment rate in Europe – 21.3% – and like other European countries, young people make up the majority.

Starting on Sunday, the protest has grown in size after initially being dispersed by police. Protesters have set up tents, and organised the distribution of food and supplies.

The protests are directed against the country’s political establishment, with slogans like “the guilty ones should pay for the crisis” and “violence is earning 600 euros” – a reference to the low wages which prevents young people from gaining financial independence.

Spanish media reports that the protests are not linked to any one political party, but the demonstrators are getting more organised – setting up citizens’ committees to provide food, communications, cleaning and security democratically.

While the Madrid protests are taking place in a very different climate to the occupation of Tahrir Sq which triggered the overthrow of longtime Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak, they represent the anger of millions of young people across Europe who are seeing their education, jobs and futures destroyed in the economic crisis.

Like the protests in North Africa which were sparked by mass mobilisations of unemployed youth, the key to victory for the Spanish youth is to build practical and political links with the organised working class. Solidarity between the youth who have no future and the workers resisting attacks on their jobs and pensions can strengthen unity between young people, workers and the unemployed.

The demands of the Spanish youth for jobs, better living conditions, and a fairer system of democracy are echoed by young people across Europe and the Middle East.

Youth unemployment in the UK stands above 20%, with more than 50% of young black people out of work or education. The unemployment rate for university graduates has reached 1 in 5.

From London to Tunis young people are being made to pay the price of capitalism in crisis – while the millionaires have seen their wealth increase by 20% since the start of the recession.

Across the world young people are being radicalised through resistance to attacks on our jobs and education. The revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia showed that young people have a vital role to play in resisting and, ultimately, overthrowing the capitalist elites who use us as cheap, expendable labour in the good years, and throw us onto the scrapheap when their system crashes.

Young people have nothing to gain from defending capitalism – the mass protests in Spain proves that more and more youth are recognising this.

There is only one alternative to capitalist crisis – socialist revolution. Join REVOLUTION and unite with young people across the world in resisting the bosses’ austerity and fighting for socialism.

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19 Shorefields students suspended after Anti-academy protest

May 11, 2011 By 1 Comment

Resistance to the privatisation of education centres around the struggle against Academies. The Tories are increasing their efforts to flog our schools to their rich mates, and protests, strikes and walkouts have been the method of resistance.  [Read more...]

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