CommonSpace has received lots of contributions to our week on Scotland’s town and places

THANKS to the many people who emailed into CommonSpace as part of our special week of coverage on Scotland’s towns & places. We are extending the week until Tuesday 5 March because we have had so much interest in contributions and ideas that we haven’t been able to fit them all in this week. 

CommonSpace will be travelling to Dumfries, Motherwell and Ayr as part of a special week of coverage on Scotland’s towns and places

SCOTLAND’S towns are facing the double whammy of austerity and the rise of internet and out-of-town shopping. 

Local authorities across Scotland are currently passing budgets with severe cuts to local services, including key aspects of community life: swimming pools, libraries and community centres.

CommonSpace Editor Ben Wray says the site will be seeking to introduce regular audio-visual content over the coming months

COMMONSPACE is pleased to announce two new journalists are joining our team.

David Jamieson, who previously worked at CommonSpace from July 2015-August 2017 and has contributed columns to the site in recent months on culture & ideology, is returning as a reporter, and with an additional role to lead a weekly podcast called Beyond the Noise, the first episode of which was published last Friday.

Applications for reporter position due in 25 July, for production & communication assistant position 8 August

COMMONSPACE is hiring two members of staff to our team in Glasgow.

Position 1: Production & Communications assistant

CommonSpace is looking for a skilled and creative production & communications assistant to make our output more accessible and engaging to a wider audience, especially by utilising audiovisual methods.

Details of the role:

£8.75 an hour

CommonSpace's week on 50 years since May '68 culminated in a forum on Thursday 3 May, posing the question 'Is the Left still revolutionary?'

COMMONSPACE held a forum in Glasgow last night [3 May] exploring 50 years since May '68, culminating our special week of coverage on the subject.

Panellists for the event were former SNP MP and Glasgow University student in 1968, George Kerevan, Paris May '68er Margaret Ferguson, anti-racist campaigner and trade unionist Mélina Valdelièvre, and CommonSpace columnist David Jamieson.

CommonSpace editor Ben Wray introduces a special week of coverage starting on Monday 30 April on half a century since May ‘68 – and how you can get involved in it

IN THE week beginning 30 April, CommonSpace will be running a special week of coverage on 50 years since May ’68, the revolt in Paris which became the symbol for a year of movements and uprisings across the globe, which sought to create a new world based on a radical new egalitarianism and a universal notion of political, economic, cultural and sexual liberation.

New stats have revealed the value of UK labour has fallen behind the Euro average for the first time 

THE Common Weal think-tank has said the UK Government is failing in its duty to ensure the economy works to the benefit of the people after new statistics revealed that the cost of labour per hour has fallen below the EU average.

Ben Wray has been appointed as new editor of CommonSpace. In this introductory article, he introduces his approach to news.

HI, I’m Ben Wray the new editor of CommonSpace. I wanted to introduce myself by saying a bit about my approach to news and to CommonSpace in particular.

CommonSpace is biased. We shouldn’t just be willing to admit this, we should embrace it and define it.