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The world’s number one terrorist, George Bush, and his sidekick, Tony Blair, will be coming to Scotland in July. People should come and take part in the demonstrations against them.

The New Labour government’s attack on public sector pensions suffered a damaging blow when the Scottish Labour Party annual conference unanimously opposed the move last week.

According to one Scottish newspaper, the police are planning a clampdown on protests at the G8 in Scotland this summer. The measures revealed in the Sunday Herald include plans to turn a former RAF base in Edinburgh into a "holding facility" for protesters awaiting trial and to scrap all trials in Edinburgh’s sheriff court for the first two weeks in July.

‘The reservoir dogs of multinational capitalism are coming in July to lick each other’s arses… We must gather in our hundreds of thousands to push them into action on permanent debt relief, real fair trade and aid without conditions’ Tommy Sheridan Scottish socialist party MSP

The Scottish Parliament has rejected New Labour’s proposals to bring in compulsory identity cards across the country. The Scottish Green Party proposed the motion against ID cards, which was passed by 52 votes to 47 on Wednesday of last week.

WELL OVER 400 delegates attended the annual conference of the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) in Perth last weekend. Following the resignation of Tommy Sheridan as SSP convenor three months ago, it was widely felt that the event had successfully drawn a line under what had been a difficult period for the party.

The year 2005 is critical for anti-poverty activists in Britain. It is a unique opportunity to improve the lives of millions of poor people around the world. The G8 summit of the world’s most powerful leaders will be taking place in Scotland in July and Britain will hold the presidency of the European Union in the second half of the year.

Gordon Brown wants to get rid of my job. I would dearly love to take his job away after what he’s done to me and my colleagues. That’s why I’m standing against him as a Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) candidate in the general election.

Colin Fox I STAND for an independent socialist Scotland, a republic, run for public need, not private greed and independent from the multinationals which own so much of the economy and control so much of society.

HEALTH WORKERS are protesting at the degrading treatment — including shackling and handcuffing — meted out to asylum seekers at the Wishaw General and Hairmyres hospitals in Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Robert Burns lived in the last third of the 18th century, a time of the most rapid change in Scottish history. The agrarian revolution was squeezing the peasantry, the class into which he had been born, out of existence. The industrial revolution was underway.

Police are preparing to use submachine guns and rubber bullets to defend George Bush and the G8 leaders who meet at Gleneagles, Scotland, in July. They are carrying out training in a mock-up village built on the site of a closed down hospital. Anti-capitalist and anti-war campaigners are already organising huge demonstrations and protests to greet Bush and the G8 leaders, starting with a Make Poverty History demo on 2 July, the Saturday before the summit.