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Youth in revoltYoung people have been among the hardest hit by the capitalist crisis,
with an uncertain future, mass unemployment and massive attacks on
eductaion all that the system can offer. However, young people have also
been to the forefront in fighting back in a number of countries. The CWI
fights to organise workers and young people in a united struggle and makes
the case for a socialist world - the only solution capable of guaranteeing
a decent future for all. |
22/12/2013, Defend the refugees! Defend union members! Corey Snoek & Katharina Doll SAV (CWI in Germany) |
06/05/2013, ’Get a job!’ is the constant refrain of privileged Tory ministers and
vicious right-wing tabloids. A million unemployed young people are the
subject of a relentless campaign of smears and lies. Claire Laker-Mansfield, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales), first
published in The
Socialist |
15/01/2013, Paul Murphy, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) MEP speaks in European
parliament on EU’s ’Youth Guarantee’ scheme socialistworld.net |
12/10/2012, ‘March for a Future’ a “powerful statement” Socialist Party reporters, Belfast |
30/08/2012, Interview with a student activist on the perspectives for the movement Alternative Socialiste (CWI in Quebec) |
01/08/2012, 90,000 march against government’s new national education curriculum Dikang, Socialist Action (CWI
in Hong Kong) |
05/06/2012, Job prospects for young people are projected to remain bleak for several
years. Simon Carter |
24/04/2012, Socialist Party members are involved in establishing a new campaign to
fight against the increasing cost of living. Socialist Party (CWI
Australia) |
02/03/2012, Tens of thousands in battle against tuition fees rise Cedric Gerome, CWI |
02/03/2012, Video of Paul Callanan, Youth Fight For Jobs campaign on national UK
news programme socialistworld.net |
28/02/2012, Police break up St. Paul’s camp, which lasted for more than 100 days socialistworld.net |
20/02/2012, Mass protests in Germany, Austria and Europe Sebastian Kugler, SLP (CWI in Austria) and Michael Koschitzki, SAV
(CWI Germany) |
20/11/2011, Monti government will face mass opposition to austerity Giuliano Brunetti, ControCorrente (CWI Italy) |
Further articles on 'Youth in revolt':- 23/06/2011: International Youth Camp: Uniting the European struggles against
cutbacks, racism and capitalism!
International Socialist Resistance (ISR) reporters - 11/06/2011: Britain: Young, gifted and striking back
Ben Robinson, Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales) - 09/06/2011: Europe: Protests grow as young people say: ’We want a future!’
International Socialist Resistance (ISR) - 06/06/2011: Spain: 15-M movement opens gates to new stage of struggle
Danny Byrne, CWI - 02/06/2011: Italian revolution: ‘Democrazia reale adesso’
CWI reporters, Italy - 02/06/2011: Greece: Unite the struggles and bring down the government
Andros Payiatsos, from Xekinima (CWI in Greece) - 24/05/2011: Spain: Youth revolt shakes political elite
John Hird, Socialismo Revolucionario, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque country - 20/05/2011: Spain: Youth movement spreading
CWI
reporters, Spain - 19/05/2011: Spain: Youth protesters’ ‘Tahrir Square’ occupation
CWI reporters, Spain - 04/05/2011: Yemen: ‘Youth of the revolt reject the Gulf initiative!’
Per-Åke Westerlund, CWI Sweden - 24/02/2011: Students in Britain: Following on from the first wave of struggle
Ben Robinson, Socialist Party
(CWI England & Wales), first published in Socialism
Today - 14/01/2011: Britain: Student receives draconian sentence
Claire Laker Mansfield, Socialist
Students
2010: - 14/12/2010: Britain: 35,000 students protest outside parliament
Socialist Party (CWI England
& Wales) - 13/12/2010: Italy: New wave of struggle against education cuts
Controcorrente (CWI in Italy) reporters - 02/12/2010: Scotland: Youth and student protests in Dundee
Matt Dobson, Socialist
Party Scotland - 17/11/2010: Britain: Everyone’s thinking, “at last students have gotten out of bed
and done something”
From the Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales) - 15/11/2010: Britain: Video of student demo
Video by the Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales) - 11/11/2010: Student protest in Britain: ‘This is just the beginning’
Socialist Party (CWI England
& Wales) - 11/11/2010: Britain: More than 50,000 protest against education cuts
Claire Laker-Mansfield, Socialist Students National Organiser, first
pulished on socialiststudents.org.uk - 29/10/2010: France: “A lot of youth and workers hope that the mobilisation will have
a new upturn”
socialistworld.net - 19/09/2010: Britain: Youth must fight for a future!
Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) - 15/09/2010: Britain: Paying a higher price for higher education
Claire Laker-Mansfield, from Socialism
Today - 10/09/2010: Youth in Britain: Our future under attack
Suraj Shah and Ben Robinson, Youth
Fight for Jobs - 24/08/2010: Britain: Student demo should be start of the fightback
Claire Laker-Mansfield, Socialist
Students national organiser, from the Socialist, paper of the Socialist
Party (CWI England & Wales) - 05/08/2010: Britain: Youth and students - organise to fight for a future
Matt Dobson, Socialist Party
(CWI England & Wales) - 05/07/2010: Hong Kong: Youth protest for HK$33 minimum wage
Chinaworker.info - 10/06/2010: Germany: Mass Strikes for Education
Michael Koschitzki, SAV - CWI Germany - 31/05/2010: Britain: Young people - organise to fight the cuts
From The
Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) - 28/05/2010: Puerto Rico: Students and workers fight austerity cuts
Matt Dobson, Socialist Students England & Wales, national organiser - 16/05/2010: South Africa: Free education proposals
by Liv Shange - 11/03/2010: Education in Europe: 10 years of the ‘Bologna Process’
Tilman Ruster, SLP (CWI Austria) - 20/02/2010: US: Fighting to protect education and public services
By Philip Locker, Socialist Alternative (CWI in the US)
2009: - 12/11/2009: Youth in Revolt: Fightback spreads in Germany
SAV reporters (CWI in Germany) - 06/11/2009: Austria: University and school students, kindergarden workers and metal
workers protest in joint day of action
Laura Rafetseder, SLP (CWI in Austria) - 30/10/2009: Austria: Universities occupied, 50,000 students on the streets
Laura Rafetseder, SLP (CWI in Austria) - 20/05/2009: China: Thousands of college students in Nanjing city clash with police
From chinaworker.info - 30/04/2009: Austria: 60,000 school students strike on 24 April
Laura Rafetseder, Socialist Left Party (CWI in Austria) - 16/04/2009: Austria: Teachers and school students take strike action against attacks
on education
Laura Rafetseder, Sozialistische LinksPartei (CWI in Austria) - 03/04/2009: Britain: Youth march for jobs in London
Socialist Party reporters (CWI in England and Wales) - 30/01/2009: Iceland: Students make their voice heard in Reykjavik
Kristofer Lundberg, Rattvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden) - 20/01/2009: Greece: The ‘December Days’ rising of Greek youth
Andros Payiatsos, Xekinima (CWI in Greece)
2008: 2007: 2006: 2005: 2004: 2003: - 17/12/2003: Germany: Thousands of students protest to defend education
Tanja Niemeier, CWI - 17/04/2003: Portugal: Lisbon stops for students
Eurico Cabral, Alternativa Socialista - 24/03/2003: Iraq: Day X - 100,000s of school students strike and march (Britain)
Ken Smith and Hannah Sell, Socialist Party, London - 24/03/2003: Iraq: Day X - 50,000 youth strike against ther war in Hamburg
YAW members, Hamburg - 07/03/2003: Iraq: No to war in Iraq - Toronto students walk-out
Andrew Messing, Socialist Alternative, Toronto - 06/03/2003: Iraq: No to war in Iraq - Britain - School students strike against the
war
ISR members - 26/02/2003: Germany: Youth Against the war organises national day of action
Sascha Stanicic, Sozialistische Alternative, Berlin - 09/02/2003: Iraq: No to war - Britain - Youth against the war
Clare James - ISR national co-ordinator. - 06/02/2003: Iraq: No to war - Building youth against the war
Socialist Youth, Ireland
2002:
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