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On September 25th Keir Starmer announced that the UK Government will be introducing mandatory digital ID for all adult British citizens. Already this has been met with immense hostility across Britain and its constituent nations, with a petition now at 1.7 million signatures calling for the Digital IDs not to be introduced.
The initial ‘Your Party’ meeting in Glasgow was arranged by Scottish activists and attended by comrades from across Scotland, including members of the Scottish Socialist
As inheritance taxes spark nationwide protest and rural communities slip to the far right, one question remains – why has the left been silent?
Enough time has passed from the UK Supreme Court’s decision on the Equality Act to allow us to properly observe a phenomenon which has been
For years now, we have been kidding ourselves that Scotland is not susceptible to the kind of far-right populism that Nigel Farage has been deploying
Raptors, also known as Birds of Prey, are hypercarnivorous bird species. In Scotland you can find eighteen different species including Golden Eagles, Peregrine Falcons, and
The SSY is clear in its warning. Reform will not stop south of the border if socialist Scots do not act now to build an alternative.
The new American regime presents Europe with a choice, and as we Scots are bound to Britain, so too are we bound to the dilemmas
We are disappointed by the recent joint statement released by the Communist Party of Britain (CPB) and the Young Communist League (YCL) regarding the recent
Scottish universities are in crisis. Dundee University faces losing 632 full time jobs (20% of its workforce) to deal with a £35 million deficit. Several
The UK Government has taken its neo-liberal agenda to our society’s most vulnerable, slashing up to £5 billion from welfare in a brutal act of
On the 8th of March 2025, the SSY took to the streets of Glasgow for International Women’s Day, joined by other groups from the radical
With the mutual agreement upon and implementation of the ceasefire agreement between resistance forces in Gaza and the Israeli government, the palestinian people are able
The Scottish Socialist Youth welcomes the new wave of Women’s Marches taking place on either side of the Atlantic ahead of Trump’s inauguration on January
On Wednesday 11th December the Labour government brought in an indefinite ban on puberty blockers for trans youth under the age of 18, a ban
This year, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List changed the conservation status of the Western European Hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus) from
Land Today Land reform holds a less prominent place among the policies of leftwing groups than it once did, at least within Western nations. As
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