Capitalism: A Love Story

On Sunday I went to see the Glasgow Film Festival’s showing of Michael Moore’s new film ‘Capitalism: A Love Story’. Although out in the US since last September the film won’t go on general release in the UK till Friday. I’m not sure about other cinemas across Scotland but it will definitely be showing for [...]

Getting serious about the Far Right

Last weekend thousands of anti-fascists took to the streets of Edinburgh to confront and defeat the Scottish Defence League. We won an overwhelming victory, and everyone who was part of it should be proud. This Thursday (25th), SSY has called a national meeting to discuss what we can learn from the weekend’s success, and what [...]

Square Go wi the SDL in Edinburger

Awrite mah wee muckers? Here’s the Glesgie style lowdoon oan the demo opposin’ the SDL oan the 20th ay February. Fucken… So yisterday me n aw the crew went oot tae Edinburger, right? We wur there tae tell ‘ay SDL mob whit we thoat ay their bolloks. So, we spent fucken days staunin in the [...]

Scotland, Afghanistan and heroin

When people were protesting against the war in Iraq, “No war for oil!” was one of the main slogans around the world. Of course it’s easy to see that at a simple level the reason why Britain and America invaded Iraq was to do with oil. But things are rarely simple and straight forward when [...]

Camp Secret Squirrel IV: Revenge of the Red Squirrels

Coming this Summer: the return of Scottish Socialist Youth’s legendary camping weekend, Camp Secret Squirrel. From the 6th to 9th of August SSY will be heading to a secret location, somewhere in deepest, darkest Galloway. During the day different workshops will give everyone taking part the chance to discuss and educate each other on the [...]

Save the Women's Support Project

In a grim sign of what’s to come in Austerity Britain 2010, Glasgow City Council have pulled out of funding one of the most important services available in Scotland for women and children who have suffered abuse or are vulnerable. The Women’s Support Project is a voluntary organisation that, since 1983, has provided support for [...]

Protests in London for Yarl's Wood hunger strikers

While it’s a bit far away for any SSY members who aren’t living in exile down south to make, there’s an important protest in London tomorrow against the brutal treatment of women detained in Yarl’s Wood Imigration Removal Centre. Since February 5th over 50 women in the centre had been on hunger strike in protest [...]

yay, it's a bad seventies re-run!

The dieing days of a Labour government, discontent bubbling away in the trade unions, a resurgent Conservative party, mass unemployment, cuts – everywhere – cuts!, the far-right gaining limited electoral success, the SWP falling apart .. fuck me, haven’t we been here before? Well, um not strictly, seeing as SSY are all under-the-age-of-26 and that, but [...]

Breaking News – Biggest Threat To Your Health Is…The Daily Mail

Remember 1998? It was the year of Titanic, it was the year Google was founded and it was the year George Michael was found doing naughty things in a toilet. It was also the year in which The Lancet, one of the world’s most respected medical journals, published an article that seemed to show a [...]

Leftfield is go!

Update: The PDF of the new issue is now available on the Leftfield page, spam it to all your friends! The wait is over. The new Leftfield ‘zine from SSY is here and ready to go. For now, we’ve got a sneak preview, but check back in a couple of days and we should have a PDF [...]

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