Interviews
Interviews, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, April 23, 2013 21:06 - 1 Comment
Interview | Daniel Trilling: On race, class and ‘Bloody Nasty People’
In a Ceasefire special on St. George's Day, Symeon Brown interviews Daniel Trilling, New Statesman Associate Editor about his latest book, Bloody Nasty People, and the wider debate over the far right, class and British identity.
Interviews, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, January 23, 2013 23:38 - 6 Comments
Interview | Mali’s Festival au Désert | Manny Ansar: “We remain optimists, despite the circumstances”
Festival au Désert, a landmark event founded 13 years ago this week by a collective of North Malian Touareg musicians has been cancelled this year. In an exclusive interview conducted on the eve of French military intervention, the festival's founding director spoke to Ceasefire's Oualid Khelifi.
Interviews, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, November 29, 2012 12:25 - 0 Comments
Interview | Lindela Figlan of Abahlali baseMjondolo “The South African government does not respect its people” [Video]
With the recent unrest in South Africa leading to state repression of striking miners, Ceasefire's Adam Elliott-Cooper caught up with Lindela Figlan, a leading organiser in one of the region's largest new social movements.
Interviews, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, November 22, 2012 13:57 - 0 Comments
Interview | Yousef Al-Helou “Attacking the media is not something new to us in Gaza”
Prior to last night's ceasefire, media buildings and personel in Gaza had been tagreted by Israeli airstrikes for four consecutive days. Yesterday, independent journalist Yousef Al-Helou, who had been reporting on the events, spoke from Gaza City to Ceasefire's Alessandra Bajec.
Interviews, New in Ceasefire - Monday, October 29, 2012 13:19 - 1 Comment
Interview | Tricia Rose: “Hip-Hop can be a poetic force for a social movement”
One of the world's leading academics on race, gender and politics talks to Ceasefire's Adam Elliott Cooper about the meanings of HipHop.
Interviews, New in Ceasefire, Politics - Tuesday, July 24, 2012 18:15 - 1 Comment
Interview | Peter Herbert: “institutional racism in the police will be there for a long time”
At this year's NUS Black Students' Conference, Adam Elliott-Cooper spoke to Peter Herbert, one of the UK's most senior human rights barristers on his thoughts on recent police scandals, protest and the state of civil liberties in Britain today.
Interviews, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, July 18, 2012 16:40 - 2 Comments
Interview | Hamja Ahsan and Turab Shah: “It is important to remain hopeful”
As a London event tomorrow marks 6 years in detention without trial, charge or evidence for Talha Ahsan, a young British poet facing extradition to the US, we publish part one of an exchange between Hamja Ahsan, Talha's brother and Turab Shah, whose powerful documentary,'Extradition', is the first to focus on the tragic cases of Talha Ahsan and Babar Ahmad.
Interviews, New in Ceasefire - Saturday, June 9, 2012 0:00 - 0 Comments
Interview | John Carlos: “Occupy the World”
John Carlos, world-famous for his defiant, iconic black power salute at the Olympic games of '68, talks exclusively to Ceasefire's Samayya Afzal on human rights, racism and global change.
Interviews, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, May 31, 2012 0:00 - 0 Comments
Interview | Akala: “Revolution is inevitable”
In an exclusive interview, Akala, one of the UK's most respected Hip Hop artists talks to Ceasefire's Adam Elliott-Cooper and Usayd Younis about race, history and philosophy, with exclusive video performances from his latest material.
Interviews, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, April 24, 2012 15:50 - 1 Comment
Interview | Jeff Halper: “A two-state solution is no longer viable, we must stop talking about it”
Jeff Halper, co-founder and coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) talks exclusively to Ceasefire's Livia Bergmeijer about the end of the two-state solution, the failure of the Palestinian Authority and how Israel is losing the moral war.





