The SNP conference saw calls for cross-party, left-wing unity in support of a People’s Vote, with activist Kirsty Haigh dismissing the possibility of ‘Lexit’ as a “fantasy”

SNP SOCIALISTS have joined with representatives of the ‘Another Europe is Possible’ campaign to articulate a socialist case for EU membership and advocating a People’s Vote.

While the UK Conservatives continue to bicker and infight over post-EU Britain, the Brussels ship continues to sink. CommonSpace examines major political developments on the Continent.

BORIS JOHNSON accused Theresa May of entering the Brexit battle with the EU leadership "with the white flag flying" on Monday, opening a fresh battle over the direction of ‘Global Britain'. The issue of Europe has set the Tory right and centre at each other's throats as we enter a crucial phase in the EU negotiations.

Leigh Wilson, SNP councillor for the Mearns ward in Aberdeenshire, says that he has changed his mind on the question of EU membership for an independent Scotland, and is now convinced joining the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) is the best compromise position for the Scottish Government to pursue

Theresa May pushed to take action on government Leavers implicated in Electoral Commission investigation

SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT Brexit minister Mike Russell has said another Brexit vote is now “essential” in light of findings by the Electoral Commission that the Vote Leave campaign breached electoral law by overspending.

The watchdog’s conclusions, published today (17 July) found that Vote Leave, the official campaign for the UK to leave the EU, exceeded the legal spending limit of £7m by almost £500,000.

With radical right wing politics gaining record levels of support in Europe and the US, CommonSpace asks: how did we get here, what role has the political establishment played, and what can the left do to turn the tide?

“CRIME IN Germany is way up. Big mistake made all over Europe in allowing millions of people in who have so strongly and violently changed their culture!”

This was the ‘analysis’ of United States President Donald Trump on migration in Europe last month.

CommonSpace considers the responses of pro-EU politicians and activists to the UK’s Brexit chaos

WITH PRIME Minister Theresa May’s government in turmoil over Brexit and its ability to agree a deal which both the EU and MPs can get behind, what options remain for Scotland to avoid what SNP MP Angus MacNeil described as a “cluster-mess”?

David Jamieson, CommonSpace columnist on culture and ideology, explores Scottish attitudes towards the international order and its institutions in the age of Trump

“STOP THE WORLD, SCOTLAND WANTS TO GET ON” – this is the famous utterance of Winnie Ewing after her 1967 Hamilton by-election victory that established the SNP on the political scene.

As CommonSpace’s Trump Special begins, Ben Wray explores how we should locate Trump in a broader historical context through the lens of professor Mark Blyth’s concept of Global Trumpism – does Trump represent the beginning or end of something in western politics?

THERE’S a million questions you could ask about Donald Trump as he is about to make his first visit to Scotland as US President, but perhaps the most important is – does he represent the beginning of something new, or the end of something old?