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Raising awareness of Spain's brutality

3-2. Another game, another glorious failure for Scotland’s national football team. Losing bravely seems to be what we do best. Well, some of the time at least. The less said about the recent dismal defeat in Prague, the better. Of course there is no shame in losing by such a narrow margin to the reigning [...]

Cops go on the rampage in Ecuador

Yesterday police in Ecuador tried to seize control of the capital Quito as part of a failed attempt to overthrow the left wing President Rafael Correa. Most of the mainstream media has reported the rebellion as being a protest at “austerity measures”, but there’s lots of evidence that something more sinister is going on. On [...]

BNP: hate will tear them apart, again

Following the well documented events of last Saturday, when the BNP were smashed out of Glasgow by a flash mobilisation of anti-fascists, the reverberations on the wider party have not taken long to become clear. With the national party in disarray over reported financial irregularities and widespread anti-Griffin sentiment, this has been played out in [...]

Sweden: what went wrong?

It’s now a week ago since Sweden’s general election (which I caught a glimpse of when in Stockholm at the time) and the left there have been faced with the task of reviewing what went wrong, why the Social Democrats have fallen to their lowest level since 1914, why the Left Party lost further support, [...]

Dress down Friday: Anti-Fascist Bonanza!

It’s been a busy week here at SSY towers. Many strange inhabitants of the murkier corners of the internet were so disgusted by our bin raking ways, they were moved to try and track us down and give us death threats, letters to our (commie) parents about how we’re mad commies, and even complaints to [...]

Anti-fascist strategies tested in Bradford

We’ve previously covered the run-up to last weekend’s English Defence League march in Bradford. Despite a successful campaign to have the government ban the march, it was always clear that the EDL would come anyway. The “official” anti-fascist movement made no plans to take direct action to try and stop the EDL from being able [...]

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 [...]

UKIP: absolute nutters in the shit

UKIP, the acceptable face of far right politics in the UK, are possibly facing a financial disaster next month. July is likely to see the judgement of the Supreme Court over the party’s refusal to forfeit over £350,000 of illegal donations. The Electoral Commission says it knows about at least 67 instances of the UKIP [...]

SDL IN CRISIS! Let's finish them off this Saturday…

The last time we saw the Scottish Defence League – a few dozen thugs, football hooligans and out and out racists – all the way back in February, they were being bussed away by Lothian & Borders Polis, en route to being dumped in a field somewhere near Linlithgow. As the cavalcade of 500 cops [...]

Shitegeist

If you’re the kind of person who knows there’s a lot of problems in our society, and you’re looking for solutions for what to do about it, there’s a good chance you’ve found yourself here on our blog. There’s also a good chance you might have come across something called the Zeitgeist Movement. If you [...]