Young Communist League (YCL) Scottish Organiser Marc Livingston gave a lukewarm response to the Scottish Government's proposals for additional capital investment in school buildings. On Wednesday, Education Secretary Fiona Hyslop announced plans to create around 55 new schools with £1.25bn of taxpayer’s funds via direct funding and the Scottish Futures Trust (SFT).
Mr Livingston stated that “whilst we welcome the SNP's decision not to pour public money into the pockets of big business through its Public Private Partnerships (PPPs), the reliance on the failed bankers mafia controlled SFT, headed by former RBS CEO Sir George Mathewson, to help provide some of the funding, would still mean money being siphoned off into the hands of the private money marketeers”.
Young Communist League general secretary Joanne Stevenson branded the EU election results a “slamming indictment of Labour’s abandonment of working people”. She pointed out that Labour had completely failed its traditional supporters and failed to deal with the issues facing alll workers young and old alike.
Youth unemployment in Britain is skyrocketing – with cuts in both secure and insecure employment.
The reliance on precarious, marginal, peripheral, insecure or unstable work within the British economy has meant that, with the capitalist economic crisis now begging to hit, the effects on working people is disastrous. It is no coincidence that unemployment, is over 2.2 million (the highest it’s been since 1997) and is expected to reach 3 million by the end of the year. It is estimated that almost half of unemployed workers are and will be under the age of 25. The majority of those who were in precarious work, women, youth and ethnic minorities are the same groups that are flooding to claim JSA.
Young Communist League (YCL) General Secretary Joanne Stevenson called on the people of Birmingham and beyond to come out in support of action on creating sustainable jobs for working people this Saturday. The March, called by Unite the Union, calls for a national strategy for protecting and creating jobs, as well as an ending to the UK’s ‘cheap and easy to sack’ culture.
Ms Stevenson, a resident of Handsworth, Birmingham, demanded that the Government step in and address the alarming decline in sustainable, long term employment that has hit the country, in particular, the Midlands.
Britain is in the grip of an economic crisis. So is the world. Every time there is a slump the politicians and financiers seem mystified as to how the system has failed. But boom and bust is the way capitalism works. It's not stable.
When the economy grows, banks, corporations and speculators, driven only by greed, gamble other people's money in their global casino. When they lose 'confidence' in their profit making schemes and panic, the bubble bursts and we pay the price. Redundancies throw hundreds of thousands on to the dole. Savings are lost. Homes are repossessed. Pensions lose value. Young workers haven't got a hope in hell of getting decent work. Wages and conditions are crap. Public services are slashed. Students are saddled with thousands of pounds worth of debt. Something has to change!
Young Communist League general secretary Joanne Stevenson branded the EU election results a “slamming indictment of Labour’s abandonment of working people”. She pointed out that Labour had completely failed its traditional supporters and failed to deal with the issues facing alll workers young and old alike.
Youth unemployment in Britain is skyrocketing – with cuts in both secure and insecure employment.
