You can shove your rubber bullets…

Wednesday of this week marked exactly a year since the glorious day in November 2010 when thousands of students charged into and smashed up the Conservative Party headquarters at Millbank. A year on – and 11 months since Parliament voted through the £9k tuition fee rise – the student movement was out to prove that [...]

Glasgow anti-cuts activist gets 18 months… for throwing a kids toy

An anti-cuts activist from Glasgow was sentenced to eighteen months in HMP Wandsworth at a London court on Friday, following his arrest at the March 26th TUC anti-cuts demonstration in London. His crime? Throwing a spent joke shop smoke bomb, picked up from the street, in the direction of a branch of Topshop – apparently enough to [...]

These trees are not for sale.

Big Ben was burned to the ground last week by protesters angry about the coalition government’s plans to sell off all of England’s publicly owned woodland. Unfortunately, it was just a model – this time, at least. The government proposes to sell all of the Forestry Commission owned land in England. That’s 650,000 acres of [...]

EDL revert to type

Times are hard for the English Defence League. As they drift ever further into obscurity and irrelevance – continuing to insist to anyone who’ll listen that the single greatest threat to the British working class right now is the impending arrival of islamofascism – their tactics are becoming increasingly desperate. Britain’s inevitable transformation to an [...]

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 [...]

Tories Out, Students In!

If you’re reading this blog, you’re probably already well aware of Wednesday’s huge demonstration against education cuts that took place in London. Over the past few days a massive amount has already been written about it, both in the mainstream press and all over the internet and social media. It was a brilliant demonstration. Myself and [...]

George, show us some RESPECT

After lots of threatening to do it over the past 5 years, George Galloway looks set to finally stage a comeback attempt to Glasgow. This weekend, his party, RESPECT, are discussing the possibility of setting up in Scotland. But before they’ve even had a chance to vote on it, George has as good as said [...]

It's official: students in England face £9,000 annual fees

If last month’s Browne Review was the warning shot, today’s announcement that the government intend to treble the cap on fees for higher education in England to an astounding £9,000 a year, is the declaration of war. All universities will be able to charge up to £6,000 a year, double the current rate of £3,290. However, [...]

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 [...]

The EDL and SDL: they must be smashed

Following the relative success of their wee day out to Kilmarnock – where the shameful actions of Strathclyde Police ensured that their ‘march’ could go ahead – the SDL are intending to have another go at parading through Glasgow next month, on Saturday 18th September. As you might recall, when the SDL last tried to [...]

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