Rape Culture Rears Its' Ugly Head

[potential trigger warning] The super-cool mega-amazing singer that is Rihanna released the video for her new (and fucking awesome) single Man Down just the other day. As well as being visually stunning, it tells a compelling story. Shot in Jamaica, the first scene shows Rihanna shooting a man in a train station. A day earlier, [...]

Posted by Sophie on June 4th, 2011 | 6 Comments Posted in Uncategorized

How to Pass your Higher in being a Bolshevik Revolutionary

(The name of the school and the teachers have been changed to protect the proles.) Being in SSY and still being at school can be frustrating, particularly when I live an hour on the train away from Glasgow – the central nervous system, if you will, of SSY activity. My fellow pupils are mostly apathetic [...]

Posted by Sophie on April 28th, 2011 | 9 Comments Posted in Uncategorized

Facebook being shite #3874

Facebook can be a great place to get on your political soapbox. It gives you a chance to vent, you can share great articles and you can find yourself in a genuinely interesting discussion about certain issues.  As someone relatively new to socialism and who is still learning a lot about the issues surrounding it, [...]

Posted by Sophie on April 11th, 2011 | 23 Comments Posted in Uncategorized

Myth-busting with Cracked

Sick of our good-old traditional British culture being pillaged by evil Muslims, bent on a regime of violence and outdated conduct? Worried your wives, daughters, grannies, sisters and girlfriends will soon be forced into wearing Burkas under an enforced authoritarian Islamic rule?  If so, you’re either a gullible moron, or worse, an Islamophobic hate-filled wanker. [...]

Posted by Sophie on January 6th, 2011 | 3 Comments Posted in Uncategorized

Bigmouth Strikes Again

It’s not uncommon for political leaders to use their musical preferences to try and engage with the public; in fact it’s practically become a tradition. Tony Blair told us he was an Oasis fan, Gordon Brown (despite later not being able to recall a song of theirs) thought the Arctic Monkeys ‘really wake you up [...]

Posted by Sophie on December 7th, 2010 | 13 Comments Posted in Uncategorized