SDL denied permission to march in Edinburgh

Edinburgh City Council today denied permission to the far-right Scottish Defence League for a proposed march through the city centre next month. This is the first time that the SDL have gone before a local government decision making body, in the past having favoured circumventing official permission and going straight into negotiations with local police. [...]

Posted by ImSpartacus on August 19th, 2011 | No Comments Posted in Uncategorized

Tory Councillor sets new world landspeed record for bullshitting

As Britain recovers from the riots, it’s facing the second blow of having to cope with lots of people’s “explanations” for the mass looting. Some of it’s ridiculous – blaming Blackberry Messenger for the chaos – and some of it’s a bit more sinister, like David Starkey blaming black culture for the riots. Unfortunately Starkey [...]

Posted by Andy Bowden on August 18th, 2011 | No Comments Posted in Uncategorized

All hail our new Met overlords!

Regular readers of this site may have noticed occasional negative references to the police – in particular strathy polis and it’s benevolent Brother Guide leader Nelson Telfer. Due to recent changes in policing and what constitutes “a joke on the internet” we will be making changes to our editorial policy. This is in specific reference [...]

Posted by Andy Bowden on August 17th, 2011 | No Comments Posted in Uncategorized

This is Britain, and everything's alright. It's FINE.

All conflict dies in the brotherhood of flags After last weeks multiple days of consecutive rioting, there’s a chance now for some calm, measured discussion on the upheaval that saw the capital and several English cities burn, high streets looted and alleged gangster Mark Duggan shot dead – with three others killed defending their property. [...]

Posted by Andy Bowden on August 16th, 2011 | 1 Comment Posted in Uncategorized

Wayne Rooney wants Britain to be back British

One week on after the first night of rioting, and the reactionary backlash is in full-swing. The courts in some English cities are operating at full-pelt, churning out disproportionate sentence after disproportionate sentence. Cases have ceased to be dealt with on an individual basis, amid a flurry to imprison as many as people for as [...]

Posted by Liam T on August 13th, 2011 | 1 Comment Posted in Uncategorized

Policing Social Media

You almost have to feel for the police in Scotland over the past few days. Unable to spend their week beating up kids on bikes, shooting each other, executing men in taxis, and ensuring that teenagers are locked up for heinous crimes like stealing bottles of water from Lidl and swearing at cops, polis north of the [...]

Posted by ImSpartacus on August 11th, 2011 | No Comments Posted in Uncategorized

CSS 2011

Last weekend saw young socialists from all over Scotland come together for the return of SSY’s annual summer camp, Camp Secret Squirrel. Despite patchy weather and turnout that was a wee bit down on previous years, the camp still saw about 25 people take the trip down to Galloway for a weekend of workshops, campfires [...]

Posted by Liam T on August 11th, 2011 | No Comments Posted in Uncategorized

Addicts = People

What have Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse got in common? And no I’m not asking you to skim the surface of your brain and find the ‘obvious’ ‘members of the 27 club’ option. Please, dig a little deeper than that. In fact you’ll probably need to dig a lot deeper as the press [...]

Posted by Brogan on July 28th, 2011 | No Comments Posted in Uncategorized

The Language of Terror in the Media Coverage of Norway Mass-killings

Before commencing this article which comments on media coverage of recent events in Norway, SSY would like to express our solidarity with those in who have suffered due to these events, and our condolences to those who have lost loved ones. In a conversation on Saturday night down my local, a Scandinavian friend of mine noted that as [...]

Posted by Meghan on July 25th, 2011 | 4 Comments Posted in Uncategorized

Stop Deportations!

An emergency protest was held in Glasgow earlier today against a planned mass deportation of Nigerian asylum seekers, set to take place on a specially charted flight overnight tonight. Among those who have been detained by the UK Border Agency over the past week are three Glasgow-based asylum seekers, including one who has been resident [...]

Posted by Liam T on July 20th, 2011 | No Comments Posted in Uncategorized
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