ALTERNATIVE POLICIES DON'T GROW ON TREES. DONATE NOW are not citizens at all. marched off to school and Dressed to school -learn primarily how to work without answering back; to be Panace without same up for your rights; to learn how to be ripped off by a boss; or how to be a wile and mother; and to accept that's the way the world The youth are oppressed.
They have no Jegal political rights, Stuck in the family, no financial independenee, parents call the Parents can decide whether youth can go our at night, what clothes they'll wear, even how THE youth aren't even second-class citizens - they| they'll have their hair done.
Parents and schools have the right to physically "chastise" the young. In other words the night to beat and hit young people if they feel like it, and they do.
Youth, through the age of consent laws, are denied any control Over their sexuality. Young women can't get contraception and they face moral lectures if they get found or Young people have no rights to organise. If schools don't like it they can ban the National Gaion of School Stadents. 10 parents don't like it they can drag their sons and daughters oul of meetings, youth clubs, social events.
And schools and parents can often call in the police to help them.
The state has a whole battery of institutions and apparatuses specifically to deal with youth - juvenile courts, remand houses, officers and the police, to name a few And the youth can't vote until they are 18. own Youth can't drink, buy cigarettes - the list of dos.
SUSE 13, 35 COOleS And leave school majority it doesn't stop.
School leavers face massive unemployment, and pittances from social security, with its special low rates for young people still living ar home.
little union organisation.
borstals, For young probation oppressed socialised as second citizens. leave home, be wives and mothers, don'ts, musts and denied the when soung people And from every and reach legal and girls how to men. Those who do get jobs will be pince, the lowest paid workers, with ency yet apprenticestips The ill probably mean no unic organisation at all, and money that it is a chock to call pay.
women the situation is even worse, because of being young and they are being class Young women are trained to violent, often possibility of controlled. technical training in school.
news-stand tbere is a barrage of magazines telling dress, behave, make up, so they can attract Ital works, and works well the young in keeping young people in their Parents, schools, the state are
labaur. Their lack of physical maturity meant they could not demand such hish wages; them lack of mothlity made them an easy target for explentation.
The nineteenth century saw a period of the super-exploitation of the young.
Due to working class elloris. Factory Acts ensured that young people were taken out of this highly exploitative labour them rights to education, and the chance to experience theit youth before having to sell their souls to the devils in top hats.
were still there and had to be IN Iran, it was youth who was little more than force of the future.
direct process of production, youth are isolated from the rest powel, and wered any tole except as passive children.
In the family and in schools. the youth are subordinated to two processes:
because canstolesm constantly discovers technology, requiring a skilled labour Force capable employing new techniques, the youth have to be trained. This | training is more than skills for Youth have a special role in served. State education rapidly Jobs. Schools prepare future workers to accept the division of labour which defines their Secondiy, the youth have to believe in HIC bourgeois democracy, have to become citizens capitalast socicty.
have to be equally aware of the consequences if they don't.
Learning these things is not natural nrocess understanding the world. It 15 a CasE 1 accepting a repressive world order. An order that divides women from men, black from white, comnion I must decidedly favour the I based on the bosses' needs, Understandably.
our form They manned But they fight back, their firmly anti-authoritarian Tion.
geois sociely.
yet tries to create a the vouth are resistant to this process and youth capilalism knows it, so it is backed up by highly authorisarJai structures to mike sure the vouth no throuch the mill an When young people decide to struggle b ination Socsalists support this react- schools strikes fundamental aspect of bourWe encourage and promote the independent seif-organisation of youth. Independent of Against the safe and its institutions self-organisation to promote and demands of within the broader struggle of the whole working class against its oppressors.
We support the formution of a union in the schools to fight against perry rules, the cane and the bel, the restrictions on teaching methods. the discrimagainst women We support the organisation oF SKAN groups to light back against the National Front.
We support youth forming Rock Aguinst Racism und Rock clubs promote the culture of the young, to fisht for social and political facilities, to hit hack against the appressors AI work, youth should ergunise within the unions to change the present leaders who have systematically ignored the interests of youth, who have allowed their wages to be no more than pittances, who have allowed the youth to be the first on the dole queues.
In every sphere we support and promote the organisation of young people in struggle. This is what we mean when we gly that independent out independent youth moventent.