For Workers' Unity and Socialism
The Latest

Youth campaign for jobs to picket bosses’ federation luncheon

Picket: Confederation of British Industry NI Luncheon11.30am Friday 8th OctoberBack Entrance, Belfast City Hall THE FACTS – The CBI have called for:£1.1 billion-worth of cuts to devastate our public servicesClosing of 450 schoolsCuts to the child benefit and winter fuel allowance
byArchive
October 5, 2010
1 minute read
Total
0
Shares
0
0
0

Youth Fight for Jobs spokesperson Paddy Meehan called on young people and workers to tell the politicians and fat cats that we demand jobs, not cuts to our services.

“Over 1 in 5 young people are out of work in Northern Ireland. The CBI’s proposals to massively cut public services, including the closure of schools and a moratorium on public sector recruitment, will push official unemployment up to an estimated 70,000 in Northern Ireland.

“Youth Fight for Jobs stands for massive investment into a public job creation scheme. This could provide tens of thousands with work, carrying out jobs like renovating social housing and expanding our NHS.

“Workers and young people didn’t cause this crisis. It was the bankers and the rich, represented by the CBI, who created the crisis and now they are asking us to pay for it. We won’t let this happen.

“Tell the fat cats and the politicians we won’t accept a future on the dole. We demand jobs now.”

Total
0
Shares
Share 0
Tweet 0
Pin it 0
Author
Archive
Previous Article

Stop closure of Sydenham House Women’s Refuge Centre

byArchive
Next Article

Fight the cuts - Make the bankers & rich pay

byArchive
Related Posts

We need jobs, not to be patronised!

Paddy Leathem Flynn outlines some of the ways which the unemployed are forced to take part in useless “back-to-work” schemes.

Steps To Work
An introduction to enslavement for the unemployed this “training” scheme includes practices such as creating a chair made from blown up balloons and telling your fellow victims something about yourself which is embarrassing. This type of humiliation and patronising of the working class is deemed “preparation for the world of work”.

 

byArchive

Building new workers’ parties and the tasks of socialists

European CWI Summer School Report

On Tuesday 13 July, attention at the European Summer School, held by the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) last week in Belgium, with over 400 attending, turned to the question of building new mass-based workers’ parties. The call for the building of new mass workers’ parties has been a vital part of our political programme for almost 20 years in many CWI sections. The summer School was an ideal arena to share the varied experiences of our sections so far, discuss the perspectives for the development of new parties and draw the key lessons to assist our dual tasks of building revolutionary Marxist forces and assisting the development of new mass parties.

 

byArchive

Get your new copy of ‘The Health Worker’

The Health Worker
Written for health workers by health workers - August 2010

In this issue:
- Stop the health cuts - Staff say "We've had enough!"
- Crisis in Nursing
- Unions must call major demo

Have you any issues for The Health Worker?
If you would like to highlight an issue or you would like copies to distribute at work, then contact Pat Lawlor on 07810522111 or email - lawlorsrus@aol.com

Click here to download your copy

 

byArchive

Justice for the sacked NCP workers

 

CHRIS O’KANE, one of the leading organisers of the sacked traffic wardens who are fighting to be re-instated spoke to The Socialist about their struggle.

“In April, 26 of us took part on a half day stoppage after our employer, National Car Parks, refused to deal with a mountain of grievances we had raised over months.

byArchive