June 5, 2011 by International Students for Social Equality
This summer, as schools go on break, and millions of students graduate from high school and college, young people throughout the United States are confronted with a basic problem: there are no jobs.
The unemployment rate for young people is disastrous: 18.4 percent. Hundreds of people apply for any available position. College graduates send out applications every day to no avail, then end up settling for low-wage jobs at fast-food restaurants and stores, if they get jobs at all.
Meanwhile, schools are being closed, and colleges are restricting admissions. Every day, the opportunity for a decent education is being taken way from more young people. Hundreds of thousands of teachers and educational staff have been laid off—with hundreds of thousands more to come—swelling class sizes and forcing students out of school.
A measure of the historical viability of a social system is the future it holds for the younger generation. From this standpoint, the conditions facing youth at the beginning of the new academic year are an indictment of the capitalist system.
More than two years after the supposed onset of the economic “recovery," mass unemployment continues unabated, particularly among youth. On an international scale, falling growth rates and rising joblessness make clear there is no real recovery. Austerity measures being imposed in the US, Europe and Japan are compounding the social disaster. Students have no reason to believe they will have a chance of finding a decent job after graduation.
Der Zustand der Welt zu Beginn des zweiten Jahrzehnts des 21. Jahrhunderts zerstört jede Hoffnung, dass das neue Jahrtausend Krieg, Gewalt und Armut beenden wird.
Trotz der Integration der Weltwirtschaft sowie einer enormen Entwicklung von Technologien und Kommunikation leben Milliarden Menschen in Hunger und ist die Menschheit mit immer neuen Kriegen konfrontiert. Das neue Jahrzehnt läutet ein neues Stadium der weltweiten Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise ein. In Griechenland setzt die sozialdemokratische Regierung unter Kontrolle der EU-Bürokratie das Diktat der Banken gegen die Bevölkerung durch. Mithilfe der Gewerkschaften soll ein Exempel für alle europäischen Arbeiter statuiert werden.
Auch in Deutschland sollen die hunderte Milliarden, die den Bankern und Spekulanten in den letzten Jahren aus der Staatskasse überwiesen wurden, wieder bei der Bevölkerung eingetrieben werden.