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Commonwealth? Common pish.

After threats of terrorism and boycott, the Commonwealth games have formally opened in Dehli tonight, as millions of viewers worldwide crowd round their tellies to watch the diddy olympics begin. There may be more Scots – particularly Glaswegians – watching the games than usual, as Glasgow is the next city due to host the games [...]

I'm back from Suffragette City!

And it was, as the song goes, outta sight! Although starting late, the event was fantastic – it was really inspiring to see a number of diverse groups pull together and put on a show, explain what it is they stand for and begin to build a support network with each other. The night consisted [...]

Millions of Europeans on strike and in the streets

You might not have noticed yesterday, what with the UK news much more concerned about what high paid cushy job David Miliband will be getting next, but across Europe millions of people were on strike and in the streets to protest the austerity policies of the EU governments. Just like the ConDem government here, governments [...]

The Mighty Mighty Climate Camp

I’ve just returned from 5 days of occupying the land of the Royal Bank of Scotland, a piece of direct action that yesterday successfully achieved its objective of shutting down RBS’ headquarters. On Monday when we looked across at the building we could see there was nobody working there apart from cops and security guards. [...]

We smashed the banks – no, really, we did.

Some of SSY’s roving reporters are back to civilisation to give YOU all the latest news from climate camp… After an epic amount of pushing, we stormed RBS headquarters this afternoon. Delicious molasses bombs were thrown, windows were smashed and there was a lot of scuffling with the police. Bear in mind that today was [...]

Climate camp is going down: get there!

A few of us SSYers are about to head over to head over to Edinburgh to take part in the camp for climate action. If you’re reading this and can make it, get there! The camp took their site last night, at Gogar Station Road, right next to the Royal Bank of Scotland global headquarters! [...]

Camp it up!

It’s taken a few days for those of us who were lucky enough to be at Camp Secret Squirrel 2010 to get ourselves together enough to write about it. SSY’s annual summer camp this year was a huge success, and hopefully those of you who couldn’t make it this year will see from our photos [...]

SSY Conference 2010 – tomorrow!

Tomorrow SSY will be hosting our annual conference in Glasgow, where we vote on motions, elect internal positions, and take part in a variety of workshops. It takes place in the Kinning Park Complex, 40 Cornwall Street, right beside Kinning Park underground station on the Southside of Glasgow, from 12 noon to 6pm. It’s a [...]

Emergency Budget: ConDems declare war

It’s started: finally secure in their position of power, the Tories, with the support of the sell out Lib Dems, have declared war on the working class. Today, the government announced it will hold an emergency budget on June 22nd. But, in an attempt to pre-empt the fightback, the ConDems are to announce Â£6 billion [...]

Happy May Day!

Today (and over the next few days) working class people will be celebrating our holiday, May Day. Throughout the world May Day is recognised by the labour and trade union movement as the day on which we celebrate workers and their struggles for justice. But the story of how socialists fought to make May 1st [...]