Challenge Autumn 09

In this issue:

Yobs! Hooligans! Young People! - With the constant demonisation of all young people as criminals in the bourgeois media, Sophie Hussain looks behind the tabloid hysteria at the root causes of youth crime.

Fun in the Sun - In Challenge’s second article trying to prove not all Communists are boring old farts Zoe Streatfield and Alison MacKenzie round up some of the summer fun from the British left.

COVER STORY: No more McJobs - YCL general secretary Joanne Stevenson urges the labour movement to begin taking the conditions of facing young workers seriously.

+ In the news;  Poetry Corner; During those days - Franco's Spain; Is Class Dead?; Keir Hardie: The man & his gospel; Einstein & Socialism; Ar Aer Kid (guide to the Black Country); Opiate of the Masses?; Back 2 Basics - Part 15: Reformism; Alienation debate; They Think its All Over - Is the recession over; Cartoon Corner; Book @ Bedtime; Industrial Diary: TUC Special