Public and parliamentary opinion against intervention as government presses ahead with plans for missile attack

JUST 22 per cent of Britons support the UK Government’s plans to begin missile strikes on Syria, a YouGov poll has found.

Commissioned by The Times newspaper, a new poll shows support for UK airstrikes against Syria is down by two points from 25 per cent in 2013, when MPs voted against military intervention in the ongoing civil war. 43 per cent of voters now say they oppose airstrikes, while 34 per cent say they ”don’t know”.

Opposition ramps up as Trump’s visit to the UK is back on the agenda

NUMBER 10 has confirmed that a working – not state – visit from US President Donald Trump is back on the cards in 2018, following a joint press conference with Prime Minister Theresa May at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday.

Sammy Stein of Glasgow Friends of Israel believes President Donald Trump's controversial recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital could be a help, rather than a hindrance, to peace

DESPITE the furore of President Donald's Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, there was a notable lack of any condemnation when Russia did exactly the same thing earlier this year. 

The decision, taken by Russia in April 2017, made it the first country in the world to extend such a recognition to any part of the city.

CommonSpace columnist Siobhan Tolland says UK Prime Minister Theresa May has shown her true colours after deals with the US and Turkey

IT'S been a good week for the fascists and a bad week for everyone else. 

Donald Trump is speeding up his racist segregation and shutting down the borders like, well, like the unstable, nuke-wielding fascist he really is. It’s an extremely difficult part of history to sit by and watch, feeling helpless.

Commonspace columnist James McEnaney attacks Theresa May’s cowardice and calls on Scotland’s politicians to stand up to Donald Trump

CommonSpace columnist Yvonne Ridley says President Donald Trump has no understanding of women's welfare

THE new US president is a self-confessed sexual predator, serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist and misogynist but I thought even he would show some restraint when he entered the White House earlier this week.

However, within a matter of hours the Oval Office looked more like a locker room for the sort of white, privileged men Donald Trump likes to hang out with.

Journalist and academic Arun Sood gives a first-hand account of President Trump's inauguration in Washington DC, and the following day's Women's March

Washington DC: Friday 20 January 20 2017. Presidential inauguration.

A GROUP of 'International Revolutionary Workers Party' members scramble up Columbus Fountain. Shouts crackle through loudspeakers, signs rise, and enthusiastic leaders declare resistance to capitalism, racism, Trumpism as well as establishment Democrats. 

CommonSpace columnist James McEnaney reacts to the news that Donald Trump will become the next President of the United States

EARLIER this year I visited America for the first time as an adult. 

It was April, and I travelled - with my wife and infant son - to New York to attend my sister's wedding. During my time there the campaign to become Democratic candidate for the presidency was in full flow, with Bernie Sanders supporters still fighting to elect their standard bearer.

Turkish bombing of Kurdish-controlled region in Syria denounced by activists

SCOTTISH SOLIDARITY WITH KURDISTAN has sent a letter to all Scottish MPs and MSPs calling for condemnation of the Turkish Government’s attack on Afrin, one of three cantons of Northern Syria currently controlled by the Kurdish YPG (People’s Protection Units).