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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. [...]

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 [...]

Paul O'Grady advocates socialist revolution

Almost. Paul O’Grady recently used his primetime slot on Channel 4 to call the coalition government ‘bastards’ and speak out against the ideologically motivated Tory/Lib Dem cuts. Good on him for pointing out how disgusting it is that the Tories and Lib Dems sat in Westminster jeering every time another devastating cut was announced by [...]

Education under attack

Higher education in the UK is facing a swathing, ideological attack from the coalition government – that will fundamentally change the face of university and college education as we know it. Last week’s publication of the Browne Review, on the future of higher education funding, recommended raising the limit on tuition fees for UK students [...]

Beaker lets the cat out of the bag – time to fightback against Condem muppets!

MEEP – Treasury Secretary and Beaker lookalike Danny Alexander has let the cat out of the bag. 500,000 jobs in the public services are to go; that’s a brutal cut of 1 in every 10 public sector jobs. This massive cull in the public sector won’t be the end of increased unemployment – any cuts [...]

Red Ed? Don't think so.

After the most vicious battle between two brothers since Van Damme vs Van Damme in Double Impact, the victor for Labour leader has finally been declared. In a surprising result, Ed Miliband has defeated his brother David, despite being much geekier with him, not as good with women and not allowed to stay up as [...]

The Tories: Creating ‘Spongers’ since 1979

By McMeg Gettin handouts can be so frustratin Get in line son there’s five million waitin’ The Proclaimers, Cap in Hand As a central part of actualising Dave Cameron’s glorious vision of The Big Society, the Con-Dem coalition has promised to sweep away the “cycle of dependency” that afflicts Britain’s “pockets of worklessness”. Announcing his new welfare [...]

Clegg: Lies, then gets in trouble for telling the truth!

More evidence, as if it was needed, that Nick Clegg is a giant walking sack of shit with a ministerial car: yesterday at Prime Minister’s questions he said the government was going to close Yarl’s Wood, a hellhole private prison for asylum seekers who have done nothing wrong. But, a bit like when the Lib [...]

Would you rather be hung or shot?

Hey Kids! Guess how cool and funky the ConDem government can be?! They’re going to ask YOU on Facebook about what you think should get cut from our public services! Neat, huh? Do you often think about how your local leisure centre is a waste of money? How about all those lazy disabled people that [...]

Negative solidarity and "gold plated pensions"

Pensions might seem an odd topic to write about on the Scottish Socialist Youth blog. It’s surely decades until SSY members’ need to start worrying about retirement, right? But the fact is, if the UK government have their way, we’ll suffer when we’re older in a way that hasn’t really been seen since the establishment [...]