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The Daily Record and Sunday Mail Scottish newspapers are the latest battleground in the fight against bosses' attempts to make cutbacks.

The Dunfermline, Scotland's biggest building society, is the latest victim of the recession. The Nationwide, which is the largest building society in Britain, has taken over the Dunfermline's healthier assets in return for £1.6 billion from the government.

1984 1 MarchNational Coal Board (NCB) announces closure of Cortonwood pit in Yorkshire – miners at the pit walk out6 MarchScottish and Yorkshire areas of the NUM make strike official12 MarchHalf the country’s miners are on strike – this rises to over 80 percent over the course of the strike15 MarchDavid Jones, miner aged 23, killed while picketing in Ollerton, Nottinghamshire29 MarchTransport unions ban the movement of coal19 AprilNUM special conference ratifies strike action

Fred the Shred’s smash and grab bank raid Socialist Worker recently produced an excellent campaign poster citing Fred Goodwin, the disgraced former chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) as "Wanted for Bank Robbery".

If the Royal Bank of Scotland had been allowed to go bust the bank’s former boss, Sir Fred Goodwin, would be on a pension of £20,000 a year. That’s what he’d be entitled to from the Pension Protection Fund, the safety net this government was forced to put in place for when company pension schemes collapse.

"I no longer believe the label of instutional racism to be either appropriate or useful to the Metropolitan Police."Scotland Yard Commisioner Sir Paul Stephenson

Over 350 people gathered in Glasgow for the annual Scottish Stop The War Coalition conference.

Shares on the London Stock Exchange soared on Tuesday after the news that Gordon Brown and chancellor Alastair Darling will guarantee the toxic debts of nationalised banks, such as Lloyds and the Royal Bank of Scotland, to the tune of £500 billion.

Some 100 trade unionists and tenants lobbied the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh over housing on Thursday of last week.

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) announced last week that up to 2,300 jobs are to go in Britain.

Students in Scotland have been raising solidarity with Gaza through

Scotland faces its biggest housing crisis in 60 years. The economic collapse has destroyed the myth that competition and the "free market" can deliver on housing.