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Family have spent the past 24-hours without food or water outside Border and Immigration offices.  A FAMILY have taken to hunger striking to pressure the Home Office to take a...

Education experts say Tories’ ‘keenness’ for education bill may – and should – be cause for Scottish Government’s U-turn THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT’S decision to shelf its flagship Education Bill has been...

Housing minister Kevin Stewart warns that homelessness is predicted to rise due to UK Government welfare cuts, despite efforts to mitigate their impact THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT has pledged £21m of...

CommonSpace breaks down a recent survey and asks if the Scottish government really do have the trust of the people? AFTER the Scottish Social Attitudes Survey was released yesterday , the SNP’s...

CommonSpace caught up with Mason at the Democracy21 conference in Glasgow COMMONSPACE had a wide-ranging discussion with journalist and author of PostCapitalism: A Guide to our Future Paul Mason at...

CommonSpace reports from today’s SpyCops conference, where a victim pushing for Scotland inquiry says ‘sinister, state sponsored method acting’ was one piece of a disturbing puzzle designed to crush dissent...

Coalition of activists and campaign organisations presents a new vision for community empowerment at Glasgow’s #Democracy21 conference MAJOR POWERS should be devolved to local communities, argues a new declaration launched...

Ahead of ‘Spycops’ conference, Ellenor Hutson tells of how her environmental activism saw her mysteriously blacklisted from an industry she’d never worked in “THE THING that sticks with me is...

Doaa Shabbir, a 15 year-old school student in Glasgow who recently finished her exams, presents a vision for education which breaks with hierarchies and competitiveness, and sees the uplifting of a...

In her Cartoon of the Week, Lorna Miller (@mistressofline) reflects on the fire last Friday (15 June) at the world famous Mackintosh building in Glasgow, during a costly renovation of...