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Cowardly Cable cancels Oxford visit

One of the many treacherous Lib Dems in David Cameron’s Cabinet is Business Secretary Vince Cable. A vociferous supporter of the Tory cuts, he fits right in with his posh new pals. Today, Cable was meant to visit Oxford University as part of a series of seminars being given on ‘Lessons in Being an Evil [...]

Cameron, retreat, the youth control the streets!

. . .at least on Saturday we did for a bit. While opposition to the cuts hasn’t got as cool in Scotland as it is in France yet, this weekend saw an important beginning for a mass movement to defeat the Tories and Lib Dems with an all-Scotland march organised by the Scottish Trade Unions [...]

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 [...]

Government makes solemn pledge to make everything shit

Yesterday the Tories and the Lib Dems announced their plan to cut pretty much everything decent in Britain, transforming our society into a bleak vision of a grey hell hole conjured up by the imagination of Charles Dickens affected by low serotonin. With £81 billion coming out of stuff you rely on, cuts no longer [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Multimillionaire ministers announce their bullshit budget

At the same time as Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Gideon Osborne, was announcing the pile of rancid shite that forms his Emergency Budget, it was also revealed that at least 23 out of the 29 coalition cabinet members are millionaires. So while Osborne and Cameron and Clegg and their other filthy rich pals are [...]

Millionaire PM tells us: "Your whole way of life will have to change"

On June 22nd the ConDem government will release its emergency budget, plunging us into a nightmare of cuts and job losses. In a speech today Posh PM David Cameron gave some hint as to his real economic agenda. He said: ”How we deal with these things will affect our economy, our society – indeed our [...]

300: THIS IS SCOTLAND!

In honour of our 300th blog post, Leftfield brings you the EPIC SAGA of Scotland’s long-standing resistance to the Tory hordes of England: When SSY members were born, like all Scots they were inspected. If they showed any sympathy for the Tories, they would have been discarded. By the time they could stand, they were [...]

ConDems get their knives out

Today was the announcement of the first round of cuts by the UK government, with £6 and a quarter billion coming out of public spending. It’s been a busy day for SSY, as we took direct action at several points throughout the day to oppose the ConDem savagery. But first, let’s have a look at [...]