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Student Wars: Stirling Strikes/Fights Back

Yesterday something unusual occured in the historic City of Stirling – a large march and rally though its town centre. The purpose was to protest job cuts at the University – specifically, 17 compulsory redundancies being made in the Institute of Aquaculture at the University of Stirling: Scotland’s only Instutute of Aquaculture, which enjoys an [...]

The Free Hetherington is Invincible

Some of this info may be duplicating what you already know from Liam T‘s recent post (his 100th on this blog btw!) but I reckon this is a story worth telling several times, kinda like how the Bible has like 4 Gospels or something. A better edit of this article will appear in the next [...]

Violent eviction at Glasgow Uni leads to… another occupation!

**EDIT** As of last night, the Hetherington occupation is back on as senior management offered us back the building in exchange for giving them back their beloved senate headquarters! This rendered the whole police and security operation yesterday entirely useless! As of this morning, people are being targetted by the police and re-arrested, information here [...]

Aaron Porter gone, Bill Aitken resigns, Gaddafi on his way out…

It’s been a bad day for the enemies of SSY.ORG.UK – and today we take part in our ritual of revelling in the demise of BASTARDS. Top of the list (although probably not the most evil, Gaddafi still just squeezes by) is sellout Blairite careerist Aaron Porter. Porty’s announced he will not stand for another [...]

Being in a trade union isn't the same as being working class.

Last week, local authorities across Scotland unveiled their budgets for the next year. The councils put on a united front of horrific cuts for all. Hopefully comrades from across the country can update us on what their council’s budget will mean for them – let’s have a little look at Glasgow first of all. Glasgow [...]

"Transition to Freedom"? Egypt and Democracy

The mass uprising in Egypt has focused the world’s attention on the discontent within many Arab socieities. In a frenzy of political and media commentary on the growing wave of protests and mass insurrections, one of the buzzwords has been “democracy”: the Egyptian people want it, “Western” commentators want it; even the Egyptian generals seem to [...]

Where in the world is Aaron Porter?

Today, Glasgow students visited young Labour conference in order to tell Aaron Porter what a crap job he’s doing as NUS president. Having been sacrificed to us by his Labour bosses so they could clear the door of the clearly terrifying mob, Aaron was kettled by us. Much screaming of “I don’t expect to be [...]

Egyptian Riot Helmets: An Appreciation

Over here at the Free Hetherington we’ve got one decommissioned riot helmet from the polis, but one day we might have to follow the example of Egyptian protesters and make our own ingenious designs from whatever’s lying around. Here’s a few of the best; I look on them with envy. Yer man here is not [...]

Even the weans know – Mubarak is finished.

Hot on the heels of the overthrow of the corrupt Tunisian dictator Ben Ali, an unexpected popular uprising is well underway in Egypt – the most populous Arab country, and politically the most important. Just a few weeks ago, it would have been difficult to believe the dictator of Egypt who has ruled the country [...]

Aaron Porter flees to Switzerland with Mubarak.

Well not exactly – so far both the tyrannical Labour careerist and despotic leader of Egypt still cling to power, but at yesterday’s demo against cuts in EMA some students finally got close enough to their “leader” to tell them exactly what they think of him, leading him to flee the demo he was supposed [...]