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Never say protest doesn’t work. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has pledged to cut the Police Department and increase spending on social services in response to protester demands to...

FOR THE PAST THREE AND A HALF YEARS I, a now 33 year old German-born New Scot, have acted as the creative director of EU Citizens for an Independent Scotland....

With plans to end lockdown underway, we need to establish what will happen to the thousands of homeless people currently housed in temporary accommodation – will they be put back...

Do you know about the Covid Corporate Financing Facility? Well, don’t beat yourself up if the answer’s ‘no’, very few do. You’ll find it scarcely reported in today’s papers. In...

SCOTLAND is one of the countries in the world worst effected by Covid19. The country has recorded 3991 deaths where the virus is mentioned on the death certificate, though the...

Health Secretary Jeane Freeman is set to take questions today from MSPs on the care homes crisis, the eye of the Covid-19 storm in Scotland.  Yesterday’s weekly National Records of...

Common Weal Versus the Virus: The virus is exposing the reality of the weaknesses in our economy, society and democracy. Over the last six years Common Weal has been showing...

THE DISASTROUS IMPACTS of Covid-19 for older people living in care Homes continues to emerge on a daily basis thanks to stories from relatives and care staff, investigative journalism and...

THE UNENDING STREAM of images of police brutality from US cities ought to be a moment of reflection in the wider western world.This is the country at the centre of...

IF WE ARE GOING to ‘Build Back Better’, we need to create a common understanding of how the pandemic has exposed the failures of our economy and democracy, develop the...