Youth
Youth
Education under attack!
Written by Paddy Meehan Thursday, 10 June 2010 09:30
For a one day school and college strike - for real jobs and training
Seven campuses of the Northern Regional College are set to close as a result of the Assembly Executives cuts. They are located at Portrush, Ballymoney, Ballymena, Larne, Antrim and Newtownabbey. This is a serious attack on the people of the North East, especially for young people who will be deprived of local access to education. It will mean only four campuses stretching from Coleraine, Magherafelt, Ballymena and Newtownabbey will remain to cater for 15,000 students, with fewer staff as a result of job cuts.
No school closures
Written by Patrick McGeown, Craigavon school student Monday, 19 April 2010 08:30
Fight the minister’s attacks on young people
In recent months, there has been much speculation on the coming budget cuts imposed by the winners of the general election and the Northern Ireland Assembly. Cuts are likely to affect most areas of the public sector, costing countless jobs and damaging our public services. One of the areas likely to see major cutbacks is education.
Youth Fight for Jobs tells Minister, "We demand jobs not excuses!"
Written by Paddy Meehan Wednesday, 17 March 2010 08:30
Representatives from the Youth Fight for Jobs campaign met Minister for Employment & Learning, Reg Empey, on 18 February to challenge him on the Executive’s failure to create jobs.
Youth Fight for Jobs put to the Minister, concrete initiatives which could immediately be implemented to create jobs. We showed how a programme for building social housing, a publicly owned IT sector and how an expansion of the NHS could immediately create thousands of jobs, while at the same time provide much needed services.
Youth Fight for Jobs picket Minister over Vampire comments
Written by Youth Fight for Jobs Monday, 25 January 2010 16:43
The Socialist Party and Youth Fight For Jobs came together in December to protest against Ulster Unionist Party's Sir Reg Empey's comments about young people who are unemployed being vampires, they supposedly "suck the lifeblood out of the System."
The Socialist Party and Youth Fight For Jobs in Fermanagh decided that this attack on young people needed to be challenged.
KICK THE BNP OUT
Written by Patrick Leathem-Flynn Monday, 05 October 2009 08:30
Shut down BNP ‘call centre’
The BNP is operating from a secret office in Dundonald in Belfast. Located at a business park this ‘call-centre’, as they describe it, is used to recruit people. They also use it to distribute their far-right propaganda and spout their racist rhetoric around the Britain.
The BNP has recently made an electoral breakthrough by winning two seats in the recent European elections in England. In recent years the BNP have relied on using far-right populism, and have tried to disguise their fascist past. It would be a mistake to confuse the protest vote the BNP are receiving (as a result of the lack of a genuine mass socialist alternative) with a shift in support for fascism. But it would also be a mistake not to recognise the BNP have been strengthened by these electoral victories.
