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scottish socialist youth •Issue 11 Sum~er 07 now only

All hail our new leader...~flftypee

scottish socialist youth: nookie not nukie?I

*not a subtlerEifer:ence to anypolitidtltendenCies.': Honest.

Get in the Korner for allof eternity. We're notgoing to forgive you.

Women have the right tocontrol their own bodieswhether KKK likes it or

And KKK'stastelessgibberings that "abortionin Scotland is theequivalent of 2 Dunblanemassacres a day" are notonly plain barmy, they'reoffensive.

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change feet. We agree. choice voters and Keith.politicians so that he canget his way. [Fortunatelythe senile old git madehis call weeks AFTER theelections ... D'OH!]

KKK'srecent idea thatabortion should be madeillegal would send.us backto Victorian conditions -when rich women could

~Knobhead afford to go to private~Kardinal clinics and working class~Keith - or women were forced into:KKK dangerous backstreet~for abortions - often causing~short - is the type of guy serious injury or even[who is straight, talks, death to the womenland is straight-talking. involved.

~Somepeople have KKK'splea to Catholics~described KKKas the not to vote for "pro-

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love life then yousy" ...

This is another part of thewhole "women shouJdnywalk about at night in casehey get raped" thing as

Women are bombardedwith labels and categories -constantly degraded anddehumanised.

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mediaof the way theportrays womsexually availablgratific .

OBJECTIFICATIONDegrading women to a setof measurements, theimplicit message beingif you are not physi"perfect" then youworthless, is probably 0of the main ways I feel theobjectification of womenaffects me personally.

Iknow I go off on thisaaalll the time and it isprolly getting tedious.

But, still. From an early agewomen (and men, actually)have what is and isn'tattractive battered ithem.

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Ukhomethinkthinkresultthe mereflect thbut it can aAnd there arto be made frdown on the confidwomen: makemagazine? plastic surge ,anyone?

I think the attitudes ofgeneral society towardssex are really unhealthy,and I think this is because

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Me and the other folkwere just trving to get the

boot in and some otherguy banjoed him."

-John Smeala

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Why waste your money onthings you need like foodand paying bills when youcan fritter it away on hastily-produced crap like this?And at the same time whynot 'consolidate your debts'by getting into even moredebt?

(the point is that there are lots ofoffers like this in proper magazinesand they pretend to offer yousomething worthwhile but actually

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Poslies on Strike!

done if the strike was goingto be successful, and Iwanted to do my bit. It feelsgood to stand up for yourrights, but it doesn't feelgood to have to.

Q: So what is the uniondoing about it?

Q: Did you go on a picketline?

To be honest it was veryearly in the morning in thepissing rain. It's justsomething that had to be

Q: How did it feel to be onthe picket?

and make the routes longerit's going to get worse. Idon't see how they can dothat.

Yeah, only one person whowasn't in managementcrossed our picket line andwent to work during thestrike. There was a deliverydriver who once we spoketo him refused to cross aswell.

There's been a one daystrike so far, and we'regoing out again soon. Atthe moment it's just oneday strikes. I think it's beenquite effective so farbecause the Royal Mail haslost some customers,which shows it's being hit.They've written us all daftletters asking us not tostrike, so they're a bitrattled. But I think we needto go on strike for longer,because as long as it staysone day I don't think peopleare that bothered. The mailstill gets delivered andyou're still doing the sameamount of work but notgetting paid for a day. If wehad a longer strike itwouldn't be possible to getall the mail delivered laterin the week, and peoplewould really sit up and takenotice.

They also want to mergesome of the routes fordelivering the mail, which isjust crazy. The routes arealready hard enough andlong enough as it is, butthey want to squeeze evenmore work. There are rulesabout how much mail youshould carry, but a lot of thetime just now you have tocarry more than that, asotherwise you would haveto go out with one bag, thengo back to the deliveryoffice to get another - itwould take ages. If they try

The work to finish systemjust makes sense, itrespects people. If you'regood and get p~ople's mailto them early then it's fairenough you should get togo home. It's one of the fewperks of the job, which islow paid and hard work. Alot of folk who have workedthere for ages have said tome if they scrap it they'llleave. They say over thelast 10 years it's becominga worse and worse place towork. I think it could end upcosting the company moremoney because that'llmean they'll need morenew people like me whodon't really know whatthey're doing and takelonger to deliver the mail!

you finished at 12 you'd go• back to the sorting office

and do something elseuntil 1. Of course, by thetime you get there it'll behalf 12, then once you'vestarted something elseyou'll be staying longerthan you're paid for, whichis what they want. Theywant to get as much workfrom us for as little moneyas possible.

Following the recentstrike action by RoyalMail staff, we caughtup with Alf Archer,19, a postie andmember of theCommunicationWorkers' UnionQ: What do you do inyour job with the RoyalMail?

Q: What's the strike allabout?

The 2nd thing is Royal Mailwant to change the way themail is delivered. Theywant to get rid of the work-to-finish rule. At themoment you're given a setroute and post to deliver,and if you get it all donebefore your shift finishesthen you can go home, butstill get paid. So if your shiftfinishes at 1 but you getfinished by 12 then you'repaid up to 1. That's the wayit's always been. But thebosses want to make it so if

It's about a few things. Thefirst one is pay: postieshave been offered a payrise which is less than therate of inflation, so in realterms that means a pay cut.We're demanding a payrise that meets inflation.

I work in the delivery officethat covers Glasgow CityCentre. Every morning I goin at 5.30 to help get themail sorted, then head outto deliver it on whateverroute needs covered thatday. I joined the unionwhen I came in because weare in the middle of a bigdispute at the moment andI wanted to support thestrike.

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pure ragin' - youngworkers get a raw deal

The ELP campaign fightsfor all workers to be betterinformed of their rights. Wealso campaign for the

Some employers don'teven bother with anexcuse because manyyoung workers don't knowhow much money they areentitled to, or they justsack staff who complain.

Cheats! If your employertries to pull a fast one onyou, contact the NationalMinimum Wage Helplineon 0845 6000 678.

Scrooges! In a number ofpubs employees are paidwages of £2 or £3 an hourand told that it'sacceptable, because thetips they get will bump uptheir pay to the level of theNMW.

For example, at severalcall centres, workers havebeen told they are now"self-employed salesagents", with the companygraciously paying £2.50 anhour in "expenses"!

employers trying to weaseltheir way out of payingworkers the NMW.

Even worse, leftfield hasreceived reports about anumber of miserly

call centres

This would be laughable ifit wasn't such braindamage for the people

who earnthis sort ofshiteywage.

The current rubbishminimum wage onlyapplies once you reach theage of 22. 16-17 year-oldscan be paid as little as £3an hour!

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would lift thousands of usout of poverty and greatlyreduce the levels of stressand illness among youngworkers. It's only fairconsidering the companieswe work for earn giganticprofits each year.

One of the demands of theEnd Low Pay campaign isfor an new NationalMinimum Wage (NMW) of£8 an hour. This

ARE working. The jobsmany of us have to takeare so pathetically low-paidthat working over 40 hoursa week still doesn't keepus out of poverty.

Instead, it's something weall have to do just to getby. For most people, to notget a summer job wouldbe kissing goodbye tobeing able to go out, go onholiday, payoff debts orsave up for college oruniversity.

These days, taking on thistype of work is notsomething young peopledo just to keep busythrough the holidays, or tomeet new mates.

If you live away from homeor you are from a lowincome household, these Our £8 minimum wage'luxuries' can be demand doesn't just applyunaffordable, even if you to older workers either.

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During the summertime,Scotland's 'service sector'workforce swells as youngpeople take jobs in fast-food restaurants, callcentres, hotels, bars,cafes, nightclubs, sportscentres, shops and a hugevariety of other places.

ANDS UP IFyou're getting afull-time jobthis summer ...

you know, a wee job toearn some cash, to keepup with the cost ofliving. If you're 16 orover and working class,your hand is probablyup.

Now keep it up if your jobis boring, thankless,temporary and low-paid. Ifyour hand is still up, thenyou are one of a youngarmy numberingthousands acrossScotland.

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ORGANISE! JOIN A UNION

National Minimum Wage Helpline

0845 6000 678

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Here's some union details I made earlier ...

SO DON'T TAKE NO SHIT!

Make sure YOU get it

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infamous 'ProbationaryPeriods' (which allow yourboss to sack you fornothing in your first 12weeks in a job) should beabolished.

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translate thesecards into otherlanguages, likePolish, Urdu,Klingon and

Arabic pleaseplease contact

us!

Give us some jobsecurity, we don't wantan axe hanging over ourheads!

These problems are evenworse for immigraworkers from Pola d. theCzech Republic, La iaand other Eas eEuropean co .., .es.

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this means making amess of theatmosphere.

TIMMY MALLETTSo we desperately needto reduce how much ofthese gases we'repumping out there. Themajor way to do thatwould be stop richcountries wastingenergy on pointlesscrap. And on the nextpage there's details ofsomething else thatwould make a BIGdifference ... (not)

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STEGOSAURUSFOUND DEAD,

CREMATEDThe gases we've put upthere by burningmouldy dinosaurcorpses [NB this is whatoil is made ofJ stop thesun's heat from beingable to escape back intospace, so the world isgetting hotter andhotter. Though whatthat means for thefuture of the climateactually nobody knows.

NO SNOW AT XMASWe're already seeingwhat climate changereally means. Morecrazy storms, weirdweather and crappysummers. No snow atChristmas, just mankygrey sludge. And forpeople who live on thecoast around the worlddisaster as the sea risesand overwhelms theirhomes.

YOU'RE GONNA HAVETO FACE IT YOU'READDICTED TO OIL

Why is it happening?Basically because ourwhole civilisation isaddicted to oil. Formillions of years deadplants and animals havebeen mouldering awayunderground, and nowwe've learnt to burnthat muck to fly planes,heat garden patios andallow men with smallknobs to drive monstertruck style cars tocompensate.

BAD NEWSAnd climate change isn'tthe good news forScotland you think itmight be. In the kind ofhilariously depressingtwist of fate that couldonly happen here, itmight even getCOLDER.

that we need to stoppumping crap into thesky, or we're basicallyall fucked.

NORWAYThat's because wedepend on the GulfStream current in theocean-otherwise we'dbe as cold as Norway!And scientists aresaying it might endbecause of climatechange.•• I

IT'S GETTIN' HOT IN HERE

WAKE-UP CALLSadly, that's not how it'sgoing to work out. Thewhole world is finallywaking up to the fact

Talkin 'bout some praise theLord shit (above): Bush prayersfor a miracle to stop climate change

W hat's wrong with a

bit of global warming,right? Surely no onecould be against a weebit more sun. You couldsave money onholidays, and chumpswouldn't have to paytanning salons (not areference to any ex-socialist icons) to getskin cancer - they couldcatch it outside!

lenlield -the lanzine that proclaims Colin Fox's lordship

A s part of hismission to stop

global warming, BigGreen AI got loads 0old celebrities to takbreak from spengingtheir huge wads "of cas..and get on sti:)ge .....'Live Earth.' .

The pointmiddle-oathon wawarenthreatwarmthe 0stopglobhasGeansa

celebrities who took';;;part? We check out.some of the figures ...

MADONNA, one of theheadliners for theLondon gig, has NINEHOUSESaround the

OU DO.THE MATH!

£ 9.186. billion

17.5minion

=Cost of the RBSDard's privatealcon 900 Jet

£ 21,917Average dailyage of RBS Chiefxecutive, Sir Fredo0dwin

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PURE KWALITEE CHOONS

Glastonbury - the bestmud-fest in the South-West, no question! Sure, itpissed down for most of theweekend and by Fridaymorning, the green fields ofWorthy Farm had turned toa nasty shade of shittybrown.

But would these conditionsspoil the party? Would

they buggery!

We crash-landed into thefestival spirit sometime

ound Wednesdayn. At this point the

Qut in force, soand the

ents

Sadly though,reviewer deterioratedmuch the same way asweather, after 'One tomany scoops of thenotorious Brothers' Cider,as well as some 'other stuff'that disappeared muchmore quickly than planned.

But Glastonbury is much

more than just a trip in themud - it's a massivecelebration of all thingscool and cultural. Whetheryou fancy getting hitchedthen ditched in the LostVaguness Chapel of Love& Hate, or if you'd ratherenjoy some reaks'n' b, st

Where else woulable to catch pertofrom the likes of Billy,and Mark Thomas 0

dedicated Leftfield stage, inbetween shifts at theWorkers' Beer Company,where all your wages go toa charity of your choice?

For me though, the moststriking feature ofGlastonbury wasn't themud, the music or themayhem that inevitablyflows f[()r:nseveral days of

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..!,Je ..!tlikt; "Turning .' t~!itI<.y()u ow where you standS91'ew"and "Run Pig'.ll.u.n"iifefiIled with. a s0l":g...then BANG ...it goes~itH.,typical Qe>l'SA f1avour,- into a diffe:renttime .signature orRoundingrhytlmtsthat Yo.ucan~eal' tempo. Variety-like this, combinedthrough your ribcage and out into with an all star cast (Mark Laneganthe street. "Into the Hollows" is a singmg on River in the Road, Julian.treckthat .bringsbac1« Il'leIl1.0ri~'o(~i'sablancasplaying guitar on Sick,Son:gs for the Deaf's Long Slow Sick, Sick arid Trent Reznor onGoodbye, whilsL'~M,!keit <WitChu", bonus track Era Vulgaris), keeps theWith 'its soft guitar'licksand piano listener firmly tuned in throughoutbacking, is about as romantic as the whole album.

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and dies!"

Queens of the Stone Age:'Era Vylgarlsi

Review by CaJuIllNelson

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May it be saidtllafi(istruly the artistwho finds inspiratioh in the mostmundane aspects of hissurroundings? Col1sider Queens ofthe Stone Age. Whilst Songs for theDeaf' was put together from JoshHomme's experience of tediouslydriving through the California desert;

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.DELEGATE ZERO?Marcos' writings weredistributed around theworld via the internet, anda huge andunprecedented solidaritycampaign was mobilised.

They launched acampaign to talk toordinary people andradical activists fromacross Mexico and theworld, and begin todevelop a grassrootsmovement for change that

was

indigenous people, landand justice. The rebelscalled themselves theZapatista Army of NationalLiberation, or EZLN.

The rebellion caught theattention of peoplethroughout the worldbecause of thedeclarations and letters ofits spokesman,Subcomandante Marcos.

The EZLN came to be incontrol of an area 0remote territory wherethey were constructinghealth and educationsystems, andimplementing a systemof direct democracywhere everyone in therebel communities wasconsulted on all majordecisions, and theydirectly controlled therebel army. This meantthat the villages werestrong and prepared forthe attack of thegovernment, and wereable to hold out againstall expectations.

Marcos wrote a stream ofdevastating attacks onMexican capitalism andthe dictatorialgovernments thatprotected it, and began tomap out a path forrevolution based on theancient democratic ideasof the Mayan and otherindigenous people ofMexico.

On New Year's day1994, Mexico'srich and American

big business werecelebrating together thelaunch of the NorthAmerican Free TradeAgreement (NAFTA), apact between Mexico, theUS and Canada thatallowed business to movefreely between thecountries and exploitworkers as much as theyliked, but didn't allowworkers the samefreedom.

In Mexico NAFTA alsomeant that the right winggovernment removed poorpeasants rights to theirland that had been won inthe Mexican Revolution of1910. US big businesswas free to buy up theirland and leave the poor tostarve.

But little did Mexico's richand powerful know thatthey were about to face arebellion against theirpolicies that was to shakeMexico, and ultimately theworld.

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Mexico's poorest state isChiapas, in the south east.The state is rich in naturalresources, but the wealthis looted and is never seenby the largely NativeAmerican peasants. OnNew Year's Day they roseup to shout 'Enough!' andseized control of fourtowns, declaring war onMexico's corrupt Another reason thegovernment and EZLN was able todemanding real survive was becausedemocracy, rights for they made sure that

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independent of thecorrupt political partiesand the undemocraticelectoral system.

In 2005 this becamethe 'Other Campaign,' anational campaign for anew way of doingpolitics, a revolutionarymanifesto to build anew Mexico. In Marcos'words, "Together, we'regoing to shake thiscountry up from below,lift it up, and stand it onits head." Declaring

"No to trying to resolvefrom above theproblems of our Nation,but, rather, they mustconstruct FROMBELOW AND FORBELOW an alternativeto neoliberaldestruction, analternative of the left forMexico."

In 2006SubcomandanteMarcos renamedhimself Delegate Zero,

and set out alone andwithout protection on amotorbike to travel thewhole of Mexico, actingas the new movement'sscout, with others tofollow. They say: "Whatwe are going to do isask you how your livesare going, your fight,your thoughts abouthow our country isdoing and about whatwe can do so that theydon't defeat us. Whatwe are going to do islisten to your thoughts,those of the simple andhumble people, andmaybe we will findthere the same lovethat we have for ourcountry."

Already Delegate Zerohas met all kinds ofpeople with manystories to tell, and hashelped begin a processof linking the EZLN intohundreds of differentstruggles by peasants,workers and of thosewho are discriminatedagainst, such aswomen and gaypeople. They took aleading role in buildingsupport for the massrevolutionary struggle

. that took place in theMexican state ofOaxaca last year.

Mexico now is acountry poised on thebrink of revolution,which has hugeimplications for the USwhere so manyMexican migrants live.

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