CommonSpace columnist Jonathon Shafi says Hungary's grassroots activists need global support

THE Central European University (CEU) in Budapest is under devastating attack by the Hungarian government and Prime Minister Viktor Orban. The authoritarian regime is taking this action in the context of a raft of draconian proposals including, for example, the introduction of 'work camps' for the very limited number of refugees currently in Hungary. 

CommonSpace columnist Jonathon Shafi explains why it's vital to restore a sense of community in order to prevent the far right taking hold

'THERE is no such thing as society.' This claim was popularised by Margaret Thatcher, who played a key role in ushering in neoliberal capitalism - a type of economics defined by deregulation, privatisation, destroying the power of unions and creating atomised consumers.

Yes, I know, the last thing you want to read about on a Friday is economic systems, but stick with me, it'll soon make sense.

Prime Minister Mark Rutte said Dutch voters had said “stop” after the examples of Trump and Brexit

DUTCH PRIME MINISTER Mark Rutte has celebrated election victory by saying that Dutch voters had rejected the “wrong kind of populism” after the experience of Brexit and the election and President Donald Trump in the US.

Far right Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders failed to come close to his hoped-for breakthrough, moving from 15 seats in 2012 to 20 despite widespread coverage of his campaign.

In the first of a three-part series on Brexit, author J.J. Patrick says takes a look at the campaigning methods and data collection behind the shock events of 2016

CommonSpace reproduces the speech delivered by activist Myshele Haywood at the Aberdeen anti-Trump demonstration earlier this week 

I DON'T know about you, but I’ve been filled with despair these past few weeks. It’s been horrifying to watch the hard-won victories of the past hundred years be swept aside by the whims of politicians without a democratic mandate, without a conscience, without a plan.

I’ve been angry, too, and scared, and confused. But mostly I just want to crawl under the duvet and hide. Wake me up when the revolution comes.

Steve Bannon, the strategist and ideologue at the heart of Donald Trump’s administration, has an aggressively reactionary world view that might tell us about its future direction

STEVE BANNON has quickly emerged as the man at the heart of US President Donald Trump’s new administration.

Leading activists says left needs to reclaim the idea of liberty in order to take on a new right

RADICAL INDEPENDENCE CAMPAIGN (RIC) co-founder Jonathon Shafi has warned that the far right is pulling ahead in the race to define the politics of the 21^st century.

Audience producer a centre of controversy over Britain First media posts

THE AUDIENCE PRODUCER for the BBC news debate show Question Time has been “reminded” by the BBC of the corporation’s guidelines regarding social media use, after she shared Facebook posts by the far-right group Britain First.

Jo Cox’s killer was only the latest in a long line of far right terrorists in the UK

NEO-NAZI TERRORISM is on the rise across Europe, a tendency underlined in the UK by the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox by white supremacist Thomas Mair in June.

Alyn Smith expressed worries that politicians will continue to “pander” to the growing far right 

ALYN SMITH MEP has said that the BBC and wider media’s coverage of the referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU had a negative impact on how the European Union (EU) was seen.