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The battle lines across British society could not have been drawn more starkly. At Grangemouth in Scotland refinery workers this week stood up for all of us when they confronted a billionaire oil baron out to rob their pensions.

This year's Scottish TUC annual conference was a showcase for the debates taking place within the trade union movement over political representation.

There is a land where New Labour stands for socialism, a land where the party’s founder Keir Hardie is held up as an icon.

Nicola Sturgeon, deputy first minister of Scotland and Scottish National Party (SNP) MSP, will address the World Against War demonstration in Glasgow this Saturday.

Socialist and former MSP Tommy Sheridan has accused Lothian and Borders police of mounting a vendetta against himself, his family and his political allies. It certainly seems that way.

Tommy Sheridan has accused Lothian and Borders police of mounting a "vendetta" against himself, his family and his political allies. It certainly seems that way.

The campaign by the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) to ensure firefighters qualify for ill-health pensions took a step forward this week when the Scottish government pledged to alter regulations to safeguard firefighter pensions in Scotland.

Rolling strike action at Argyll and Bute council in Scotland is showing the determination of workers to fight their single status wage deal.

Stop the War has called an all-Scotland World Against War demonstration in Glasgow for Saturday 15 March.

On Tuesday of this week, Labour, Tory and Liberal Democrat leaders in Scotland sat down with Des Browne, the Scottish secretary, to agree a major joint campaign to preserve the unity of the United Kingdom.

The Scottish Steering Committee of the SWP condemns the recent arrest of Tommy Sheridan on charges of perjury. We also deplore the manner in which he was arrested at his place of work and the harassment and intimidation suffered by his wife and young daughter as nine police officers searched their home on a Sunday afternoon.

A deal to hand over hundreds of acres of beautiful coastline in north east Scotland to golf-loving US billionaire Donald Trump is causing what started as a local planning dispute to spill over into a major crisis about the nature of democracy in Scotland.