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Common Weal Director Robin McAlpine says compromise to agree a Scottish Budget would be a great signal that Scotland still has a shared project – but that opportunity may have been...

CommonSpace speaks to the noted historian about a pivotal moment in Scotland’s history 100 YEARS ago today, some 20,000 striking workers, tenants and sympathisers rallied in Glasgow’s George Square. It...

CommonSpace looks at The BBC, The Guardian and the New York Times’ coverage of the latest US sanctions on Venezuela, and finds that obvious lines of inquiry about US motivations...

Film critic Calum Cooper looks back on some of the week’s additional releases. This week, the oscar-nominated biopic on Dick Cheney, Nicole Kidman as a hardened detective with a gruesome past,...

The People Before Profit MLA for West Belfast talks Brexit, democratic rights and the breakup of Britain with CommonSpace GERRY CARROLL has been a distinctive left-wing voice within the political...

Evidence emerges UK Government Asset Protection Agency pushed RBS outfit to take aggressive measures against small and medium businesses The Royal Bank of Scotland’s Global Restructuring Group was supposed to help businesses...

Sturgeon has praised Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for “rocking the boat” – does the independence movement need to pick up some of her radical ideas? FIRST MINISTER Nicola Sturgeon took Twitter time out from...

Sarah Glynn from the Scottish Solidarity with Kurdistan campaign group visited Strasbourg to meet with Kurdish hunger strikers. These videos were recorded on 25th January in the Kurdish Community Centre...

Publication of new Scottish Government strategy, ‘A Connected Scotland’, inspires rare level of consensus New strategy on social isolation and loneliness backed by £1 million over two years Funding is...

The Bank of England has been lobbied by the US administration not to allow Venezuela to withdraw its gold Bank of England has reportedly refused to allow Venezuelan government officials...