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Around 30 students staged a one-day occupation today (Friday) at Scotland’s leading arts academy, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

The Scottish TUC has called a demonstration in Glasgow on Saturday 1 October to resist Tory attacks.

The Scottish Defence League (SDL)—an offshoot of the racist EDL—was run out of Edinburgh last Saturday by a counter-protest of around 400 people organised by Unite Against Fascism (UAF).

‘There is no future for the Scottish Conservative Party in its current form’

Firefighters from across Scotland headed to Kirkcaldy on Tuesday of this week to lobby the Scottish government.

Workers at Scottish social care charity Quarriers have voted to strike against the threat of losing almost a quarter of their pay.

Cleaners at secondary schools in East Lothian in Scotland are to take industrial action against a pay freeze.

In an unprecedented step, Scotland Yard has applied to the home secretary to ban all marches in five London boroughs for 30 days starting from 2 September.

The GEO Group—a company rocked by human rights, sexual abuse and racism scandals—is to be given £25 million to run the Dungavel immigrant removal centre in South Lanarkshire, Scotland.

These are dark days for journalism. As corruption and scandal have spewed out of News International and onto the doorstep of Downing Street, via Scotland Yard, it’s been easy to forget that there is another side to the news.

A former Dublin-based News of the World journalist was working for Scotland Yard while employed by the paper.

Revelations about the illegal activities of News International have given new hope to supporters of jailed Scottish Socialist leader Tommy Sheridan.