Posts Tagged ‘imperialism’

New in Ceasefire, The Anti Imperialist - Friday, January 6, 2012 11:51 - 10 Comments

The Anti Imperialist | Blaming the victim: what the Diane Abbott controversy tells us about institutional racism

Diane Abbott’s controversial words might have been clumsy but the reaction to them has been a lot more instructive than the tweets themselves. Attacks equating her comments with white racism are yet further indication, says Adam Elliott-Cooper, of how little we understand racism, and the power structures entwined with it.

Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, December 1, 2011 9:22 - 0 Comments

Comment | On Freedom and Imperialism: the Arab Spring and the Responsibility of Intellectuals

In the second of our series of reflections on the Arab revolutions. Acclaimed journalist and author Ramzy Baroud argues the Arab Spring is creating an intellectual divide that threatens any sensible understanding of the turmoil engulfing several Arab countries.

New in Ceasefire, Politics - Tuesday, November 1, 2011 16:01 - 0 Comments

Analysis | Unveil and Conquer: Beyond the Melting Pot

In the second of his two-part essay on the relationship between feminism and imperialism, Sebastião Martins argues that Afghani women, far from being the much-vaunted beneficiaries of NATO's occupation of their country, are in fact its main victims.

New in Ceasefire, The Anti Imperialist - Sunday, July 3, 2011 9:00 - 0 Comments

The Anti Imperialist Migrant Solidarity, Global Resistance

We live in a Western media-political climate that persistently demonises and victimises foreigners, while underplaying the role of European colonialism. In such a context, solidarity with migrants is not only morally imperative, argues Adam Elliott Cooper, but is a critical focal point in the global fight against Imperialism.

New in Ceasefire, The Anti Imperialist - Sunday, November 21, 2010 0:00 - 7 Comments

The Anti-Imperialist Over-policed as citizens, under-policed as victims

In just under six months, the thirtieth anniversary of the Brixton riots will be upon us. This year is also the twentieth anniversary of the Poll Tax riots, whose success presaged the end of the Thatcher reign. In a new column on race, identity and politics, Adam Elliott-Cooper looks at the coaliton government's policy on race and how we should be responding to it.

Columns, Diary of a Domestic Extremist, Politics - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 0:30 - 2 Comments

Morrissey, the privileged and the ‘Subspecies’ of Neoliberalism

Morrissey's outburst in Saturday's Guardian, calling the Chinese a "subspecies", provoked acres of outraged newsprint. And yet, as Mikhail Goldman argues in this week's diary, whilst many of us in countries like the UK may not consciously agree with the idea, we certainly end up benefiting from the very treatment of the Chinese and other Asians, Africans, Latin Americans and East Europeans as "subspecies". Our hypocritical outrage, Goldman points out, is no less outrageous.

Ideas - Monday, July 21, 2008 17:13 - 4 Comments

What is imperialism?

We’ve all heard the word, but what does it mean? Here, Dr. Andrew Robinson looks at the economic and social history of imperialism, examining the work of key thinkers, and asks whether imperialism is still around us.