Dirty Des: He's got the X-Factor

As one of the SSY’s many resident “manginas” I often feel too ashamed of my gender to discuss such weighty topics as feminism (beside which someone below did it better…and it’s basically women’s work).  However, early this morning while eating a burger and flicking through a weighty broadsheet I came across an editorial which got [...]

Prostitution, the abolition of the victim and post-modernism's defence of the status-quo

I’ve just finished reading a book by the Swedish socialist, anarchist and feminist Kajsa Ekis Ekman which she primarily devotes to debunking the arguments used to justify prostitution and the surrogate-mothering industry. Her book was written as a response to the media’s misrepresentation of prostitution as some sort of smart and glamorous career choice for [...]

Dress down Friday: Anti-Fascist Bonanza!

It’s been a busy week here at SSY towers. Many strange inhabitants of the murkier corners of the internet were so disgusted by our bin raking ways, they were moved to try and track us down and give us death threats, letters to our (commie) parents about how we’re mad commies, and even complaints to [...]

Mexico: where the war on drugs really is a war

Check out the short film above, by Mexico based filmaker and activist Greg Berger, aka Gringoyo, who’s been travelling around Latin America for over 10 years making insightful and funny films about the exploitation of the continent by capitalism and US imperial interests. He’s now asking viewers to contribute directly, so he can make 100% [...]

Anti-masturbation witch wants women to be more like hobbits.

Christine O’Donnell is the Republican candidate for the US Senate in a special election to be held in Delaware in November. She defeated the Republican insider candidate, a guy who’s been in Congress for ages and used to be the state’s governor, with the support of the mass movement for paranoia and fantasy known as [...]

Freshers Voice = more exciting than papal visit

It’s an historical event that has been anticipated by millions of people for well over a year, although shrouded in controversy from day one. But today, yes, the SSY blog finally reached its four hundredth post, following our momentous 200th and 300th post celebrations, respectively. Sadly, we were too busy to join in the mass celebrations [...]

What's an appropriate salary for being a notorious public wankstain?

Michael O’Leary is the head of Ryanair, one of the richest men in Ireland, and loves nothing more than seeing his own name in the papers. The main job he does for his company is making ridiculous public statements about what cheapskates Ryanair are, like that they might start charging you to use the toilet [...]

Basque Country: Armed struggle ends, mass struggle continues

Last weekend, the Basque armed group Euskadi Ta Azkatasuna, which has fought an armed struggle for Basque freedom for decades, released a video declaring that several months ago they decided to stop armed actions, and announced a ceasefire. In their statement, ETA said: “In recent times, the Basque country has been at an important crossroads. [...]

If the SNP can't even try and get a referendum, then what use are they?

Yesterday brought news that surprised nobody in Scotland: despite what they promised when they were elected three years ago, the SNP aren’t going to be able to give us a say on independence this year. After decades of arguing for independence, the SNP finally got their shot at power for the first time in 2007. [...]

Bjorn Lomborg is still a knobhead

Bjorn Lomborg is a Danish statistician and political scientist at the Copenhagen Business School who shot to international prominence a couple of years ago with his book ‘The Skeptical Environmentalist.’ In it he basically argued that taking action to tackle climate change would be too expensive and a waste of money. He tried to show [...]

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