Free Labour and the UK's Youth

When Cait Reilly refused to work for free at Poundland, the tabloids had a field day. How lazy and idealist are the youth of today! Fancy being on the dole and turning down work! Wasn’t like she had anything better to do, she just couldn’t be arsed… Dossing about, expecting handouts from the state and [...]

Capitalism: Bringing Your Family Together This Christmas (To Avoid Freezing to Death)

When international charities illustrate the immensity of poverty and deprivation in areas of the ‘Third World’, they often use a statistic of how many children die per minute from preventable diseases due to a lack of cleaning drinking water and sanitation. A common response to the brutal realities of capitalist production, distribution and consumption on [...]

President Chavez does more cool shit

Allo Presidente!! It’s no secret that me, Lydia, loves Hugo Chavez. Although, it seems that there is massively split opinions of Chavez on the left in Scotland. However, Chavez just keeps doing cool shit that no one can deny is totally fucking awesome.  In Venezuela right now, horrible flooding has claimed the lives of over [...]

theft, vigilantism and the fetishisation of public humiliation

On Thursday, a group of five people attempted to make off with a load of watches from a posh London jewellery shop after smashing the window with a sledgehammer. They were foiled not by police, or shop security – but by a mob of more than 50 passers by and shoppers who jumped in and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Women already in poverty to suffer for capitalism's crisis.

New figures have been revealed showing that women will bear the brunt of the ConDem coalition’s budget cuts. As Tory Minister Bob Neill said a few weeks ago, ‘Those in greatest need ultimately bear the burden of paying off the debt.’ Shadow Welfare Secretary Yvette Cooper said: “Women are bearing nearly three-quarters of the Tory-Liberal [...]

The great World Cup rip-off

Today sees the launch of the 2010 football world cup in South Africa. It’s great news for football fans, and we’re playing our part with a world cup raffle (comment if you’d like to get a ticket!) and South Africa night for the final (watch this space for details.) But great as it might be [...]

World outraged at claims Saint Bob didn't solve all Africa's problems

The world has watched in horror as the outrageously corrupt BBC and Channel 4 has attempted to make the ludicrous claim that there are still problems in Africa. Sensible people everywhere know that Africa is now a paradise thanks to the efforts of their saviour, multi-millionaire Saint Sir Bob Geldof the Wonderful. Sir Bob has [...]

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