Labour’s cynical recruitment drive normalises militarism, diverts attention from youth unemployment and public service cuts, and seeks to build consent for an increasingly aggressive defence agenda, argues GEORGINA ANDREWS

Our charter’s demands for fair pay, affordable housing and environmental security will recruit working-class youth into the political struggle for socialism, emulating the success of the Women’s Charter, writes YCL general secretary GEORGINA ANDREWS

General secretary of the YCL GEORGINA ANDREWS looks at the priorities of her organisation, from Palestine solidarity to trade unionism and fighting privatisation at a local level, ahead of its 52nd congress