Youth

Labour Bullying with Playground Cuts

Labour Bullying with Playground Cuts

Leicester has nine amazing (if serially underfunded) adventure playgrounds spread out across our fine city, all of which provide vital services to our communities; providing nurturing and fun environments for our children in some of our most hard-done-by estates. Considering that all children can use these facilities for free, these essential public services come at […]

Posted in: Cuts, Leicester, Youth

Smashing Playgrounds Again!

Leicester City Council are in the midst of a budget-cut-frenzy; all of which are totally unnecessary mind you. Vital public services are being shredded by a Labour Council that cares more about punishing the vulnerable (be they homeless or disabled) than opposing the Government. Now they are out to destroy the lives of our city’s […]

Posted in: Cuts, Leicester, Youth
Leicester youth challenge Iain Duncan Smith

Leicester youth challenge Iain Duncan Smith

Iain Duncan Smith’s hopes for a discreet, unpublicised tour around the Jobcentre Plus on Wellington Street and the Pensions Centre on Yeoman Street were dashed on Friday 15th June as Leicester Youth Fight for Jobs learned of his visit and arranged a special greeting party.

Posted in: Unemployment, Youth
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Jarrow March – still fighting for jobs 75 years on

Leicester Socialist Party is proud to be supporting the Jarrow marchers on their 300-mile trek from the North East to London, to highlight that, with 1,000,000 young people unemployed, tuition fees trebling and EMA axed, many of Britain’s young people face a future on the dole queue. It shows the disastrous nature of the capitalist […]

Posted in: Unemployment, Youth

Aftermath of riots: where do we go from here?

A Question Time style debate has been organised in Leicester to discuss the causes of the riots and what demands communities that are affected by cuts, job losses and police brutality and racism put forward. Please come along to this important event to put across your views and hear what the communities have to say. […]

Posted in: Leicester, Youth