A piece on the weekend's 'Youth Fight For Jobs' march and some comments from me. This article is useful and critical but also provoking. Manages not to mention the Socialist Party somehow but makes clear the problem of a front-built movement without a back or base. And the key question is raised: 20% youth unemployment and no movement, no struggle; how bad does it have to get?

IMPORTANT: POLICE HAVE ALTERED VENUE SLIGHTLY, IT IS JUST UP THE STREET FROM PREVIOUS VENUE, BUT PLEASE TAKE NOTE, IT'S OLD PALACE YARD!!!!

Saturday, 3rd October 2009 at 12 Noon - Opposite House of Lords, Old Palace Yard,Westminster, London, till about 2pm

Now that taxpayers are each about to receive a £2,000 stake in Britain's banks (thanks, Darling), can I suggest that their former owners and major shareholders be expropriated and the monies received put toward a national holiday (indefinite) during which the new stakeholders and their non-citizen partners, together with those of the other bank-owning nations, decide which financial institutions to axe (all of 'em?) and which activities to continue under our direct control?

'South Korean companies are sending employees on "fake funeral" courses to help prevent suicide. The "well-dying craze" has become an integral part of training at Samsung, which has built its own fake funeral centre'

If the government is to be believed, we are undergoing a streak of freakily bad luck. First the credit crunch, then astronomical fuel price hikes and now a global food crisis. Could all these by any chance be connected?