Overworked and underpaid?
Saddled with student debt and sky-high rents?
Disgusted by all the warmongering politicians?
Millions of young people will be delighted to see the Tories kicked out at the general election. But a new Starmer Labour government won’t give us a future to look forward to.
We need at least a £15-an-hour minimum wage, living grants that cover the cost of being a student, affordable rents that let us move out, free public transport that actually works – and much more.
Starmer won’t deliver any of this. His government will mean a continuation of Tory cuts, privatisation and support for war.
There is more than enough wealth in society to give everyone a decent life; the problem is that it’s concentrated in the hands of a super-rich minority at the top. That’s why we are fighting to build a mass movement for socialist change, to put wealth, resources and control over society into the hands of the working-class majority – and give all young people a future to look forward to.
So join our fight for a socialist alternative to all the pro-capitalist parties – get involved with Young Socialists to say:
Stop the slaughter in Gaza!
- No to war and occupation – workers and young people internationally: unite and fight the capitalist warmongers!
- For mass trade union action to stop arming the Israeli state
End low pay
- Mass trade union struggle for a £15-an-hour minimum wage now! Inflation-proof pay rises for all
- Same pay for the same work! Ban unequal youth pay rates
- For the right to stable income and working hours – ban zero-hour contracts
Free education and training
- Scrap tuition fees and cancel all student debt
- Living grants, not loans, throughout college and university
- Well-paid apprenticeships and training schemes, with a decent job guaranteed at the end, for all who want it
High-quality, affordable housing
- A mass council house building programme to end homelessness and provide genuinely affordable homes for all
- Rent controls now! Take on dodgy landlords and end slum HMOs
Fully funded public services – save our NHS!
- High-quality healthcare for all, free at the point of use – kick private companies out of the NHS
- We won’t pay for the council budget crisis – build a mass campaign to fight council cuts and restore funding for local services
Combat climate change!
- Carry out a massive switch to green energy now – take the energy companies under democratic public ownership, to be run by workers and not the bosses
- A free-to-use, expanded, renationalised public transport system
Access & opportunity for all
- Open new leisure centres, libraries, youth clubs, sports facilities, and careers services for school and college leavers, free at the point of use
- A safe night out – ensure adequate staffing and proper training in all venues, overseen by democratic committees including trade unions, students and young workers
No to discrimination & oppression
- End discrimination on the grounds of race, gender, disability, sexuality, age, and all other forms of prejudice
- Defend the right to protest and strike
A voice for young people
- Votes at 16!
- Fight for a new workers’ party to give young people and the wider working class a voice – a socialist alternative to all the establishment parties
- Fighting and democratic students’ unions in schools, colleges and universities. Build democratic and active trade union youth sections
Fight for socialist change
- For the banks, monopolies and major industries to be owned and run by the working class to meet everyone’s needs, not the profits of the super-rich
- For internationalism and working-class solidarity – socialist cooperation and planning of the world’s resources, not capitalist competition and chaos, to give us a future
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