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We gotta fight fight fight fight, fight all the cuts

A ‘Coalition of Resistance’ is set to get off the ground in Glasgow over the next few weeks, with a view to bringing together the various strands of the anti-cuts movement in the city. SSY has been involved in initiating the group, as one of the signatories to an open letter, an edited version of which was [...]

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 [...]

Being Young Is Shite.

It has emerged that youth unemployment has risen to it’s highest levels since 1992. Officially 20.5% young people are unemployed in the UK as a whole. That’s just over 1 in 5 of us! Not only is this statistic worrying for young people it is the blunt, grotesque truth that young socialists have known for [...]

Tories continue to roll about in Money like Scrooge McDuck

Now that the Tories have got past their honeymoon period in government – if they ever actually had it – they’ve decided to get down to the important work of being totally despicable, nakedly evil bastards. Last week they announced plans to replace trade union and labour holiday Mayday with “Trafalgar Day”. SSY has heard [...]

Where e'er ye be, a piss should be free

Today, dear readers, I would like to talk to you about a pressing need which is affecting millions of people all over the UK right now – the need to use the toilet. When we’re at home – and usually when we’re at work – using the toilet is a relatively uncomplicated process. When we’re [...]

Ed Miliband won't even MARCH against cuts

Ed Miliband is the leader of the Labour party, the official parliamentary opposition to the Coalition government. Ed was elected on the back of trade union votes to this position, and relies on the subs paid by ordinary trade union members to keep his party going. So with the Coalition – remember, the ones that [...]

Evil strikers plan to ruin Royal Sweethearts national wedding!!111!!

Every now and again, the British tabloid press manages to excel itself with a story so bonkers, so artificial, and contrived it threatens to put the Daily Mash writing team out of business. Previous winners of this award go to “Radioactive Paedo on the run”, followed by “Asylum Seekers eat royal swans” and finally “Grand [...]

Mad VATter's Ski Party

The Coalition Government’s austerity programme gets into full-swing today with an approx. 15 percent rise in VAT in possibly the most brazen and direct attack on living standards yet put into practice. One of the headline announcements of last June’s emergency budget, it will see the cost of nearly all goods rise by 2.5 percentage points [...]

Adelante! A Message for the New Year

Note: A version of this article was originally published here. We approach the new year of 2011 with a prevailing sense of doom and gloom: that things are going to get worse, rather than better. For most of us this applies to how we view world events, politics, and society. For some of us this also applies [...]

Anti-cuts focus on Disability & Housing Benefit

After the recent student rebellion against the ConDem attacks on education, the anti-cuts movement is now recognised as a force to be reckoned with. This site has led the way in reports and analysis of this new movement, which I consider to be as significant as 2003′s opposition to the invasion of Iraq. As recently [...]