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Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was released from prison in Scotland and returned to Libya last week.

Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling have run up a huge debt in bailing out the Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Bank.

Official reports such as the Calman Commission on Scottish Devolution do not usually interest socialists, with good reason.

Many hundreds of socialists and left activists in Scotland are still nursing wounds from the catastrophic, and I believe completely unnecessary, schism on the left north of the border in 2006.

This year’s EIS (Scotland’s teaching union) annual general meeting in Perth last week took place against a backdrop of massive budget cuts combined with a major overhaul of the curriculum from nursery to secondary.

We own the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). Gordon Brown used public funds to buy 70 percent of the bank.

Penny Gower, a longstanding activist of the EIS Scottish teachers union, has been summarily dismissed from her job at Carnegie College.

Campaigners against police violence are planning to "kettle" Scotland Yard this Saturday—turning on its head the police’s tactics of surrounding demonstrators and not allowing people to leave.

Over 250 postal workers in Scotland struck last weekend over changes to working practices.

The Scottish TUC (STUC) committed itself to a programme of Boycott, Disinvestment and Sanctions (BDS) against the state of Israel on Wednesday of last week. The STUC recommended BDS because of "Israel’s attacks on the human rights of Palestinian people, and its failure to comply with agreed international law".

The sequence of images above paint yet another disturbing picture of the events surrounding the G20 protests. They were shot just after the police had regained control of the area around the Royal Bank of Scotland.

The RMT transport union is calling for Super Puma helicopters to be suspended from use following an initial report into the crash that killed 16 people off the coast of ­northeast Scotland this month.