Last word from an old bastard

Last week I turned 27, so I’m now too old to be a member of SSY or to post on this blog. I’m making a small infringement of the rules to get my last word before I leave it to a new generation to carry on the work of keeping this site fresh and interesting. [...]

Urgent: Nick Clegg coming to Edinburgh TODAY

The inspiring Edinburgh University Occupation has confirmed that his highness Nicholas Cleggerton will be attempting a press conference this afternoon at 3:10 at Our Dynamic Earth, Hollyrood. This should be the climax of what is to be a day of student activism, starting at 1130 at bristo square, involving marches, direct action and hopefully snowballs. [...]

Where next for anti-fascism after Stirling?

As one of the few SSY members who made it to today’s anti-fascist demo in Stirling I’d like to write a bit about what went wrong and where we can go from now. As you may or may not know today was a bit of a setback for the movement against fascism in Scotland. To [...]

The resistance comes to Scotland: school strikes; uni occupations; thousands on the streets

Today’s massive student protests represented the first nationally co-ordinated days of action against Tory cuts and austerity. Across the country, students walked out of class, went into occupation and took to the streets to show their opposition to the government’s plans to wreck the education system as we know it, through huge cuts to schools [...]

HERO OF THE DAY: Bishop derides corrupt and sexist 'national flim flam', outrages media

It’s hard to know where to start with the Royal Wedding. So much of the commentary  surrounding it almost goes beyond parody – take this mental ‘satirical’ (?) rant from Richard Littlejohn about the bride being forced to wear a “designer burka from the Kate Moss Intifada Collection at Topshop”, or this horrendously fawning circle-jerk by bigoted [...]

Bow-Tie wearing toffs have never had it so good

Telling the truth has no place in the ConDem coalition. It seems Lord Young has been sacked for defending and explaining government policy. In a rare statement of honesty Young outlined the logic for spending cuts, “The fact that we seemed to be going through such big cuts really meant that the pound was saved.” [...]

Student fightback – from Millbank to the 24th!

As SSY has already covered, the student demonstrations against cuts and fees have already brought French style occupations and protest to the streets of the UK – a long overdue development as far as we’re concerned. Despite the attacks on the Millbank occupation by the Tory media and the NUS Labour career ladder the reality [...]

They belong to Glasgow!

Over three hundred people gathered in Glasgow’s George Square earlier today to protest the UK Border Agency’s decision to axe Glasgow City Council’s contract to house hundreds of families seeking asylum in the UK. This comes after talks broke down between the Border Agency and the council over the grant given to the local authority [...]

Privilege Denying Dude Is Privileged

This great new meme tumblr illustrates the concept of privilege in a highlarious and clever way. Stuff like this is really good cause there are plenty of people out there who regularly display similar examples of white/male/straight/middle class etc privilege without understanding either where this comes from or why it’s offensive. Not many people take [...]

Appearance

On splitting up with a boyfriend/girlfriend/whatever how do you react? Whether you dump him or he dumps you is somewhat irrelevant here, because break ups are never good. Do you go out and spend money you don’t have on retail therapy? Spend every moment of waking life with your pals? Spend every waking moment crying [...]