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Society’s fear of youth

Posted on July 10th 2009 | No comments
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In today’s society there is a growing fear of the youth, one does not have to look too hard in the bourgeois press to find periodic waves of anti-youth hysteria. The bourgeoisie play on the fears of the elderly and middle England, promising to get tough on ‘anti-social behaviour’ and tough on the causes [...]

Student StW meeting- HOPI rejected in the name of unity

Posted on February 14th 2009 | 2 comments
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Nicholas Jones reports on the February 7 meeting of student activists called by the Stop the War Coalition

The STWC meeting took place in the context of a wave of occupations in educational institutions across the UK, triggered by opposition to the Israeli state’s attacks on the people of Gaza. The first occupation started at the [...]

French workers and students resist

Posted on February 10th 2009 | 1 comment
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Special report from Frances Grahl, a student in Tours, on the general strike and growing student unrest in France

France came together for a day on Thursday 29th January as public and private sector unions came out in a general strike. Between 11 and 2.52 million people marched to protest against a series of government reforms [...]

Socialist Youth Network conference report

Posted on April 5th 2008 | 1 comment

by Nick Jones
The Socialist Youth Network (SYN), the Labour Representation Committee’s (LRC) youth organisation, met at the University of London Union on the 29th March for its annual conference.
It has been over a year since the last SYN conference. Readers may remember that Owen Jones, Co-Chair of SYN conference last year, had perused [...]