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 columnist Jonathon Shafi says the alt-right has been filled with fury, tantrums and, er, glitter this week…

IN recent days the Trump train has come off the rails as figures from the alt-right declare that he has betrayed the 'America First' doctrine by launching a missile strike on a Syrian airbase.

CommonSpace columnist Rhiannon Spear explains why she's endorsing Aamer Anwar for the Glasgow University rector post following an explosion of controversy over an alt-right nomination

AS a Glasgow University alumnus, my Facebook timeline has been awash with outrage over the last few days at the prospect of an alt-right candidate being on the ballot for the position of Glasgow University rector. 

In the first of a new column examining the emergence a new wave of the extreme right globally, Jonathon Shafi says the left has a battle on its hands that the world can't afford to lose

"Congratulations to Thomas Perez, who has just been named Chairman of the DNC. I could not be happier for him, or the Republican Party"

"The race for DNC Chairman was of course, totally 'rigged.' Bernies guy, like Bernie himself, never had a chance. Clinton demanded Perez!"

CommonSpace columnist Siobhan Tolland warns that US President Donald Trump's rhetoric on the media will not end well for the people

THIS WEEK, the media is taking the brunt of Trump’s warring rhetoric. The lying media is something that certainly resonates here in Scotland, but I am becoming concerned about a tendency for some people to be seduced by the Trump school of media criticism.

CommonSpace brings you the news so you don’t have to go looking for it

TODAY’S INSTALMENT (21 February) of the the CommonSpace daily news roundup includes: NHS England to be decimated in new restructuring, Scottish Parliament to make history by setting independent income tax rate and the Mexican border fake news.

News: NHS England to be decimated in new restructuring

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.

Solidarity will be shown for Charlottesville anti-fascists in Glasgow and Edinburgh 

Unite Against Fascism (UAF) Scotland has organised the events following attacks this weekend against anti-fascist protesters in Virginia, USA, in which one woman was killed and at least 19 others were injured.

Controversial speaker and writer faces backlash by Glasgow students and feminist activists after being nominated for university’s rectorship

“AN EMBARRASSMENT”, is how feminists and academics have described the nomination of Milo Yiannopoulos for the position of rector of the University of Glasgow (UoG).

The prominent “alt-right” speaker, who targets women, Muslims, immigrants and members of the LGBT+ community in his speeches is one of 12 names put forward by students to represent them on the university’s governing body.