How to Pass your Higher in being a Bolshevik Revolutionary

(The name of the school and the teachers have been changed to protect the proles.) Being in SSY and still being at school can be frustrating, particularly when I live an hour on the train away from Glasgow – the central nervous system, if you will, of SSY activity. My fellow pupils are mostly apathetic [...]

You can shove your Royal Wedding up your arse

The big day is closing up on us, with all the inevitability of a death sentence/England World Cup attempt and all the dread and misery that surrounds the two. David Cameron’s already been using the Royal Wedding as a stick to beat “politically correct” health and safety mad councils, declaring that people should be free [...]

Student Wars: Stirling Strikes/Fights Back

Yesterday something unusual occured in the historic City of Stirling – a large march and rally though its town centre. The purpose was to protest job cuts at the University – specifically, 17 compulsory redundancies being made in the Institute of Aquaculture at the University of Stirling: Scotland’s only Instutute of Aquaculture, which enjoys an [...]

Feminism, Pornography and the Fight Against Patriarchy

The following is an essay I wrote, and have recently submitted, for my Sexualities class. A bit long perhaps but the blog’s been kind of short of stuff recently and I thought it might interest some people. Have included the bibliography in case anyone wants to do some further reading. In this essay I will [...]

(Shut) Up The Punx?

Disclaimer: I totally gacked the title for this blog from a song by Bomb The Music Industry!, but I’m pretty sure they won’t care. Also, what follows is my personal opinion on the positives and negatives of being involved in both the DIY punk scene, feminism and socialism, and I welcome any debate and disagreement, [...]

Strathclyde Police declare war

Strathclyde Police’s campaign of intimidation and victimisation towards peaceful protest was stepped up yesterday as they began to round-up student activists in relation to city centre protests towards the end of last year over tuition fees. Over the course of the afternoon, three young students were arrested: two in their own homes (including a 14 [...]

Facebook being shite #3874

Facebook can be a great place to get on your political soapbox. It gives you a chance to vent, you can share great articles and you can find yourself in a genuinely interesting discussion about certain issues.  As someone relatively new to socialism and who is still learning a lot about the issues surrounding it, [...]