We demand a future! By Paddy Meehan, Socialist Youth IN NOVEMBER, it was announced that 15% of young people were officially unemployed. This figure, which does not include those on training schemes, will have undoubtedly risen since then with the massacre of job losses

By Ann-Katrin Orr, UL Socialist Youth ON 4 February, thousands of students marched through the streets of Dublin to vent their anger against the government’s plans to reintroduce college fees. This cannot be seen as the end but must be the start of

By Liam Cullinane FREE EDUCATION For Everyone (FEE), a national campaign of students opposed to the re-introduction of third-level fees, held its first national meeting on Saturday, the 31 January. Socialist Youth members participated in the meeting, with students representing FEE campaigns

By Ciaran O’Neill, UU Coleraine Socialist Society UNIVERSITY OF Ulster’s political protocol cuts across students’ rights to speak and organise. The protocol says that, “political leaflets … may not be displayed outside the closed environment”. This in effect means students are not

By Richard Manton, Galway ON 2 February, Bertie Ahern was due to speak at the Literary and Debating Society in NUI Galway. The event was cancelled due to a protest by Free Education for Everyone (FEE).

STUDENTS OVER the age of 18 in Belfast and other Further Education Colleges have to pay as much as £1,000 a semester for A-levels and GCSEs. The Socialist spoke to Socialist Youth member Colm Smyth, an A-level student in Belfast Metropolitan College,

By Kevin Henry, QUB Socialist Society 20 STUDENTS and workers joined a picket organised by the QUB Socialist Society and Socialist Youth against the visit of US consulate representatives to Queens.

By Richard Manton ON 19 March, the convicted Holocaust-denier and fascist David Irving will try to speak at NUI Galway. In March last year, Irving attempted to speak at UCC in Cork, but was stopped by the Stop Irving Campaign initiated by