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General strikes all across Europe: Why not here?
Yesterday there were general strikes in Greece and the Basque Country. Last week workers in France and Italy walked out as well. Across Europe the working class is waking up to the threat posed by the attacks of European governments, but in the UK the response has still been quite muted. SSY has been involved [...]
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Critical Mass: reclaim the streets!
Last Friday in Glasgow I attended the really fun and empowering event that is Critical Mass, a monthly celebration of cycling that takes place in cities across the world on the last Friday of every month. The basic premise of CM is that dozens, hundreds , sometimes even thousands, of cyclists meet up and cycle [...]
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We shouldn't celebrate the British military
Today the city I call home didn’t feel like home for me. The city centre of Glasgow, like towns and cities all over Scotland, played host to a massive display of weaponry, Union Jacks, and mass recruitment to the British military. Today is armed forces day, the second time that an annual “celebration” has been [...]
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They Will Steal Your Dreams
By McMegaphone, a member of the Scottish Socialist Party and a teacher of English. Originally written for friends. Plutocracy (pl -t k r -s ) n. pl. plu•toc•ra•cies 1. Government by the wealthy. 2. A wealthy class that controls a government. 3. A government or state in which the wealthy rule. Martin Luther King once [...]
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How to get fired in Afghanistan
This week Obama sacked his top commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal. What the affair proves is that, for US commanders, it doesn’t matter how many innocent civilians you kill, or deaths you cover up; what really matters is slagging off colleagues. McChrystal had given exclusive access to a reporter from Rolling Stone, who went [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Fat jolly policemen let fascists roam free in Kilmarnock.
The racist Scottish Defence League took a trip to Kilmarnock this morning and were met with fierce opposition from local people and anti-fascists from across Scotland. Although the SDL claim to be protesting against Islamic extremism and in support of free speech, their past record shows that they’re nothing but a bunch of racists and [...]
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Millionaire homphobe is getting MORE of your cash
Brian Souter, one of the richest arseholes in Scotland, has just won a court battle to get more taxpayers money for his Stagecoach travel empire. Shares in Stagecoach have surged in value after it was announced the UK Department for Transport will be forced to pay him subsidies this year rather than next for operating [...]
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Basque youth movements are inspirational for SSY
Yesterday I was priviliged to meet an activist in the Basque pro-independence socialist youth movement. I have to be careful how much I write about this, because Basque youth face repression on a scale that is unimaginable to us in Scotland. The modern Basque youth movement began in 1979 with the founding of Jarrai, which [...]
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