December 15th, 2010
Compass Youth members supported Gavin Hayes and Stella Creasy MP at a Parliamentary rally on the 7th December which called for an end to Legal Loan sharking and supported Stella Creasy’s Consumer Credit (Regulation and Advice) Bill going through Parliament now. The Bill calls for a cap on lending rates and reform of the banking [...]
December 10th, 2010
Compass Youth joined the protests against the huge rises in the costs of attending university and the viscous cuts being undertaken against education funding. These will disproportionately impact on the most marginalised in society, with programmes such as AimHigher and the provision of the EMA to FE students being destroyed.
December 10th, 2010
Compass Youth members have been taking part in the UK Uncut campaign against corporate tax avoidance, with several joining the demonstrations highlighting the vast sums of money being avoided by some of Britain’s biggest companies or their owners, amongst them Phillip Green’s Arcadia Group and Vodaphone. Whilst little action is taken against these multi-million pound [...]
December 10th, 2010
Cat Smith, Chair of Compass Youth will be speaking at the CWU rally on Wednesday 15th December, 11am-2pm, in Westminster Central Hall
December 10th, 2010
Philosophy Football’s Christmas party on Friday 17 December. Why ‘Hopemas’? The Hopemas Christmas party celebrates the victorious Hope not Hate campaign against the BNP in Barking and is generously supported by the PCS trade union. A superb line-up featuring the briliant poetry of Lemn Sissay. Performing a special version of her hit Edinburgh show ‘Afroblighty’ (on nationwide [...]
December 2nd, 2010
Compass Youth is supporting the protest outside the Liberal Democrat regional conference because it was Nick Clegg and Vince Cable who conned our generation. They promised they were different and they were on the side of students and young people. They lied, and they wonderwhy young people have no faith in politicians? We are now [...]
November 18th, 2010
Compass Youth is open to all members of Compass aged under 31 years old. We have recently campaigned around youth unemployment, unfair tuition fees and about making politics relevant to young people. We hope to campaign around tax dodgers and the cuts to the Education Maintenance Allowance this year and we would like your help. [...]
November 3rd, 2010
The Higher Education Careers Services Unit’s report highlights the silent disaster facing young people in the jobs market. The report covered 82% of those who completed an undergraduate degree last summer and live in the UK. In January 2010, 1 in 11 of those graduates were unemployed, although we know many more have taken work [...]
October 12th, 2010
The Browne Review is an unmitigated disaster for young people. Fear of debt is already a major factor in deterring even the brightest school-leavers from poorer families from going to University. Adding tens of thousand to the current average debt of £23,000 will make this situation much worse, in effect excluding many from average backgrounds [...]
June 14th, 2010
Featuring Sam Tarry, Young Labour Chair Laurie Penny, Guardian / New Statesman Aaron Porter, NUS President Noel Hatch, Compass Youth Chair Like other under-represented groups in the places of power, young people are marginalised. In the elections, we were restricted to “youth issues”. In the economy, we are treated as ideal bait for consumption. In [...]
