MARTIN comes from Liverpool.
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Recently he has been staying in South Wales to help sapport for the youth march.
He talked to Challenge about important that youth join the fight to defend jobs.
What impact will the closures have on Port Talbot?
The closure of the steel works here will mean certain death for the town. It'll not just affect the steelworkers, miners and others linked directly to steel works, but community. There will be the same in Liverpool where I come from. What part have the youth played in de write so far?
The dosures mill hit the young people especially hard. They'll be the first to be lid off because of the 'last in first ut principle. Most of the apprentice Sacialist Challenge 20 March 1980 opportunities will go.
for most school leavers build and the inevitable result this area.
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youth into the strike. Now march kuljils up the winning of this strike.
have you and the Port committee?
Well it's obvious
There will be no job opportunities unions in this area will be a mass exodus by young people from other leaders are always saying that the steel strike is not just about those working now but is a fight about whether there will be jobs for future generations in Wales. about whether those at school now will have jobs to go to when they are process the strike is about the future of the area, but before now they have done little to organise the with this youth in South Wales have a chance to play a part in involved the NUM Talbot strike that the youth themselves could not possibly fight against the closure plan effectively. For this reason we approached the NUM and the strike committee. The are obviously the key defending jobs, but they also have to mobilise and support the actions of sections of the community against the Tory attacks.
What are the aims of the march? Two things really. To draw attention to the situation of South Wales youth under the Tories and to begin the of getting the organised to fight for their rights alongside the steelworkers. Is this a one-off march?
don't see this march beginning of an 'on-going' campaign like the Right Work Campaign Against Unemployment.
This march is just one of the sort of united fronts we need in order to fight unemployment.
It will be a long term struggle, for which we will need to build alliance of the employed and unemployed. This is just a start.
actions secretary of the leaders We've now the an convincing people to fight nationally against the jobs losses.
Manual got a long way to go in redundant Before the new redundancies were announced we were offered transfers to the manual section, but now unless there is a fight over the jobs l'll be within months going back to work.