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We Don't Need Bosses: Venezuela's Growing Worker Control Movement
Introduction On Sunday 22 May Spanish-language Windsor/Canada-based radio program Cayapa broadcast a program discussing the social and political changes underway in Venezuela, in the context of a recent solidarity brigade to the country by activists from the English-speaking world, and the country’s growing worker control movement. This article provides an overview of the program in English, followed [...]
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"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 [...]
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Venezuela: Into the Revolution
Image: Venezuelan Peasants Marching For “Democratic Radicalisation”, Land Reform, and Socialism, November 2010. Source: Lucha de Clases/VA.com The flights are booked. Brilliant! In three weeks I’ll be flying off to Venezuela for a three month stay involving intensive Spanish classes, volunteering, and a trip around the country with a group of Australian solidarity activists. [...]
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New Research: Tories Have More "Primitive" Brains
Are Dave’s crap politics due to his primitive brain? It sounds like a reverse case of Social Darwinism, but this recent study at University College London has produced findings which have seriously pissed off right-wingers. The research, which scanned the brains of students of different political persuasions at UCL found a striking and surprising correlation: that people who affiliate themselves with Tory [...]
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Adelante! A Message for the New Year
Note: A version of this article was originally published here. We approach the new year of 2011 with a prevailing sense of doom and gloom: that things are going to get worse, rather than better. For most of us this applies to how we view world events, politics, and society. For some of us this also applies [...]
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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 [...]
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Oh, Mr Cameron!
If it’s not already been posted on the SSY blog before, I’d recommend checking out this song: The song was written by socialist songwriter Alun Parry (with the help of his mum). He’s a Liverpudlian legend, writing songs for all manner of socialist, trade-union and progressive causes. He describes his purpose as “to use my music where I [...]
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“We Need Direct Action to Stop Cuts”: Student Voices from Goldsmiths & Strategies We Need to Beat Cuts
Introduction This article is not intended as a finished piece. Rather, it intended as a contribution to the debate over the organisation, strategy, and aims of the growing movement against public spending cuts in Scotland and Britain, as well as a report from my experience talking to anti-cuts student activists in London. Any comments, formal or [...]
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Edinburgh Protestors Arrested in Day of Anti-Cuts Action
Thursday saw mass student protests in London and militant action in Glasgow as the Con Dem government passed a law allowing universities to charge £9,000 in tuition fees, part of the continuing impetus of capitalism and its political advocates toward destroying the free provision of education and the universal, collectivist ideas that underpin it. This law and the [...]
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"Education for the Masses": Edinburgh Students March Against Cuts
Today I participated in a demonstration in Edinburgh with hundreds of students against the cuts to higher education funding currently being proposed by the Con-Dem government in Westminster. This was part of a wave of student action today across Scotland, from Aberdeen to Glasgow, against attacks to higher education. This article reports the march, before giving my own [...]
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