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Over 200 people packed into the Pollokshaws Burgh Hall on Tuesday of last week in a meeting called by the Glasgow Campaign to Welcome Refugees, local networks of activists, and supported by members of Unity - Union of Asylum Seekers.

Glasgow 1955: Through the LensPeople's Palace & Winter Gardens, GlasgowUntil 30 July The next few weeks will be your last chance to see this exhibition of photos taken by camera clubs of everyday scenes of people and places.

Justice for Gordon Gentle Rose Gentle visited the Ministry of Defence offices in Glasgow last week to ask for an inquest be held into her son’s death in Iraq. Military families were due to protest at Downing street on Wednesday this week

The Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) won just short of 6 percent in a Glasgow city council by-election last week in Milton, beating the combined votes of both the Tories and the Liberal Democrats.

Campaigning by the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) in a council by-election in Milton, Glasgow, has been lively.

Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) MSPs Colin Fox and Carolyn Leckie join candidate John McAllion (centre) in his campaign in the Dunfermline & West Fife by-election taking place on Thursday of this week. John McAllion is a former Labour MP who has recently joined the SSP. Scottish Socialist Party candidate Angela McCormick is also campaigning in the Milton council by-election in Glasgow, set for Thursday of next week.

Three thousand First Bus workers in Glasgow are set to ballot for strike action in support of a driver who was sacked.

"My father, growing up in Glasgow in a poor community, didn’t have as much money as we have. But people behaved more respectfully to one another."Tony Blair, launching his "respect" agenda last week

"Torture flights", carrying US detainees overseas to be tortured, are passing through Glasgow Prestwick Airport, Ayrshire.

The campaign in Glasgow to defend refugees has helped bring refugees and people living on the housing estates, together and stopped a number of people from being deported.

Glasgow City Council Around 100 workers protested on Monday outside Glasgow City Council chambers at £18 million of cuts. This includes £7.9 million cuts in education and £5.2 million in social work

Over 1,000 people marched through Glasgow last Saturday demanding an end to the detention and deportation of asylum seekers. The Vucaj family from Kosovo were snatched and deported on Thursday of last week. The march was led by Scottish and refugee school students. There were banners from the Fire Brigades Union, the T&G union, the teachers’ EIS union and the Amicus union. MSPs spoke at the rally.