Young people and students
can’t trust either the Tories
or Starmer’s Labour
BUILD THE SOCIALIST
FIGHTBACK FOR A FUTURE
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
WE SAY:
•Restore youth services, reopen
libraries, reverse social care cuts
and re-employ sacked council
workers
•For a decent future for young
people. For free education and
training, and decent, well-paid jobs keep pace with inflation. A £15 an
for all
•Fully fund the NHS - stop
privatisation and give staff a 15%
pay rise
Part of the TUSC
AGAINST
Trade Unionist and
CUTS
Socialist Coalition
•Combat climate change, including
with a free-to-use, expanded,
renationalised public transport
system.
•Scrap youth rates and end low
pay. Wage rises for all that at least
hour minimum wage now
•Take the wealth off the 1%. We
need socialist change!
Young people and students have
been among the hardest hit by Tory
austerity. We’re the hardest hit by low
pay, precarious work, and the housing
crisis. Many of us leave university or
college in debt, only to discover there
are no decent jobs waiting for us
anyway!
Boris Johnson and the Tories stand by
and do virtually nothing about inflation,
which is now estimated to be around
8%. From travel costs to rent to petrol,
young people cannot afford to live
independently.
This is in addition to the problems of
racism, sexism and LGBTphobia we
see all around us every day, as well as
environmental destruction.
The rich, on the other hand ,are raking
in billions, firing workers and rehiring
them on lower wages to boost their
already obscene profits. BP’s chief
executive boasted that his company
was a “cash machine” for him and his
mates.
Meanwhile, MPs have voted themselves
a pay rise of £2,200 a year! It’s one
rule for them and another rule for us.
While the police shut down protests
like Black Lives Matter, Johnson and his
mates broke lockdown rules during the
partygate scandal.
Neither Starmer’s Labour Party nor any
of the other establishment parties stand
up for young and working-class people.
Under Starmer, Labour has abandoned
Jeremy Corbyn’s anti-austerity policies.
But we still need a fight - to get student
fees scrapped, for the cancellation
of student debt, for a £15 an hour
minimum wage for all, for mass council
house building and the nationalisation
of key industries, linked to a struggle
for socialist change.
YOUNG PEOPLE NEED A NEW
POLITICAL VOICE
– SUPPORT SOCIALIST CANDIDATES IN
THIS MAY’S LOCAL ELECTIONS!
These policies are popular, what is
lacking is the political will to stand up
and fight!
Billions of pounds worth of cuts have
been carried out by councils over the
last decade, many of them Labour
controlled! This has meant the axing
of hundreds of thousands of well-paid
jobs locally, and the ransacking youth
services, careers services, community
centres, libraries and vicious cuts to our
education.
But councils have the immediate
powers to freeze spiralling rents, to
introduce free public transport for
young people, and to restore axed
youth clubs and services. They could
launch mass programmes of council
house building and create thousands
of well-paid and secure jobs for young
people, by using their massive reserves
and borrowing powers.
And they could launch mass campaigns
to win back the funding stolen from our
communities by the Tory government.
That’s why socialist candidates are
standing in this May’s local elections, to
stand up and fight against all the pro-
austerity politicians and the system of
capitalism that they represent!
CAPITALISM TO BLAME
Capitalism cannot provide a future for
the majority. It is a system built on the
creation of profit for a tiny handful at
the top of the system, ahead of the
needs and wants of young and working
class people. All it offers us is debt,
low pay, environmental breakdown and
an endless cycle of wars and bloody
conflicts.
But a fightback is on. Young people
have been fighting for change through
Black Lives Matter, the climate strikes
and the A-Level protests.
And a wave of strike action by workers
is spreading around the country.
Collective struggle by the working class,
which has the potential to shut down
workplaces and even the whole of
society, is the most powerful tool in the
fight for our collective futures.
But what we need now are councillors
who will stand with young people
and workers in struggle against the
capitalist system and for a socialist
change!

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