Socialist Students at Young Greens convention
Socialist Students member in Young Greens Over the weekend, the Young Greens held their national convention where motions are deliberated and voted on and internal elections are held alongside discussion sessions and knowledge-sharing between activists and groups. Outside the convention, members of Socialist Students held a stall where we had an overwhelmingly positive response from…
School students getting organised
Hackney linking socialism to everyday issues Saad H, Hackney Socialist Students Socialist Students members organised a campaign stall near Stoke Newington School & Sixth Form, speaking to students about the issues affecting them. Large groups of students stopped to ask questions, discuss politics, and find out more. Conversations focused on lack of job opportunities, pressures…
Fight for real jobs and decent pay
Youth walkout 20 November Mila Hughes, West Midlands Socialist Students Young people can’t afford to wait around to see whether a new face in Downing Street changes anything. We have a new Labour prime minister, Andy Burnham, but we still have low pay, insecure work, and an increasing youth unemployment crisis. And his appointment of…
Appeal to the Young Greens: Join campaign to build youth walkouts
Adam Powell-Davies, Socialist Students national chair Ahead of the Young Greens Convention which took place on the 18-19 July, Socialist Students sent the following letter to the outgoing Young Greens co-chairs and Executive Committee, inviting the Young Greens to join the campaign for a day of international youth walkouts and mobilisations on Friday 20 November…
No to youth unemployment and low pay!
Protest on November 20 to make the super-rich pay Fight for our futures, not their wars! Text from a new Socialist Students leaflet – available to order for your local campaigning by contacting socialistudents@gmail.com. Or to print locally access the PDF by clicking the image opposite. We are the first generation in history to be…
Leeds socialists demand free public transport
Socialist Students members have launched a campaign calling for free bus travel for all in West Yorkshire, starting immediately with under-25s. Route cuts should be reversed, services expanded, and SEND (special educational needs and disability) transport fully funded. The entire bus network should be brought into public ownership, under the democratic control of workers and…
Fight for our futures – not their wars!
Youth walkout 20 November Robbie Davidson, Manchester Socialist Students In May, an estimated 50,000 students in Germany walked out in huge school strikes against military conscription. This was a marker for the fightback which could be posed across Europe – as young people face a myriad of crises in education, employment and the rising cost…
Labour cuts university teaching grants, we need funding not fees
Ryan Leonard, London Socialist Students For the second academic year in a row, the government is poised to cut £100 million of university funding from high-cost and priority subjects, including nursing. The Department for Education (DfE) has announced that the strategic priorities grant will be cut to £1.25 billion (£1.45 billion in 2024-25), in a…
No jobs, no pay, war & division …Labour’s offer to youth
Young people in Britain today experience the bleak reality of what capitalism has to offer us – almost one in six young people not in education, employment or training. Amidst the crisis of youth unemployment, those who do find a job experience low pay and poor conditions. This Labour government offers no solution to this…
Socialist Students attends Europe-wide youth assembly against war
Build for an international youth strike this Autumn Becca Bayman, delegate to the assembly and Liverpool Socialist Students On 14 June, members of Socialist Students attended a Youth and Student Anti-War Assembly in Cologne, Germany. Twelve organisations from eight countries across Europe took part, including socialist youth organisations, climate justice groups and anarchist student unions.…
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