Special Reports

New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Thursday, May 10, 2012 9:09 - 2 Comments

Analysis | ‘Keeping the peace’ in Somalia

David Cameron opens the Somalia conference in London, 23 Feb 2012 . (Photograph: Matt Dunham/AFP/Getty Images)

Elliot Murphy provides an unsettling account of the latest developments in Somalia, and warns against Western calls for foreign intervention.

New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Monday, May 7, 2012 0:00 - 0 Comments

Special Report | Bolivia: Morales announces May Day nationalisation amidst workers protests

Ali Sargent reports exclusively from La Paz, Bolivia, where Evo Morales's May Day announcement of another renationalisation has been overshadowed by mass workers protests and strikes.

New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Thursday, May 3, 2012 12:00 - 6 Comments

Quebec Chronicles | A Maple Spring?

CLASSE spokespeople Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois and Jeanne Reynolds denounce violence (Source: Le Devoir)

In the first of her reports from Quebec, Jane Gatensby provides a compelling account of the largest student movement you've never heard of: Quebec's Carrés Rouges.

New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Tuesday, May 1, 2012 0:00 - 0 Comments

Special Report | Ireland: No more a Teflon Taoiseach

In the second of her reports from Ireland, Ceasefire's Lily Murphy revisits the spectacular fall into disgrace of former PM Bernie Ahern in the wake of last month's Mahon tribunal corruption report.

New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Saturday, April 28, 2012 0:00 - 0 Comments

Special Report | Austerity cuts: the coalition’s shameful assault on the disabled

With the UK government cutting vital benefits for disabled people, Jonathan Benett investigates what the new policies mean for those accessing services on the ground

New in Ceasefire, Politics, Special Reports - Monday, April 23, 2012 17:32 - 9 Comments

Special Report | Selling the NHS: how parliament and the healthcare industry got cosy

In a hard-hitting investigative exposé, Andrew Robertson examines the network of vested interests that runs between Parliament and the private healthcare industry. This cosy, toxic relationship, he warns, threatens not only the future of the NHS but that of democracy in the UK.

New in Ceasefire, Olympics Watch, Special Reports - Thursday, April 12, 2012 12:00 - 38 Comments

Special Report | Want to cleanse your city of its poor? Host the Olympics

Hosting the Olympics is often presented to us as an ideologically neutral opportunity to boost tourism and sports. In a thought-provoking piece Ceasefire Magazine's Ashok Kumar outlines a clear and consistent, yet barely noticed, pattern of the Games being used to fundamentally restructure the host City to the purposeful exclusion of its working class and ethnic minority residents.

New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Wednesday, April 11, 2012 0:00 - 1 Comment

Politics | Al-Khawaja: Bahrain’s peaceful resistance, the world’s shameful silence

Picture (released by his family) of Bahraini human rights activist Abdulhadi Al Khawaja as he enters the 58th day of his hunger strike (5 April 2012)

As Bahraini human rights activist Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja nears the 70th day of his hunger strike. Fatema Abuidrees warns this could be our last opportunity to save his life, and Bahrain's future.

New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Monday, April 2, 2012 14:30 - 0 Comments

Special Report | Ireland: Abandon Ship!

In the first of two special reports from Ireland, Ceasefire's Lily Murphy draws a sombre portrait of an accelerating mass exodus by the country's young people seeking better prospects abroad.

New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Saturday, March 24, 2012 6:15 - 2 Comments

Special Report | Portuguese strike and march against austerity plan

Ceasefire's Sebastião Martins reports exclusively from Lisbon on yesterday's general strike and popular marches against austerity measures, and the heavy crackdown by riot police that left protesters and journalists injured.