Matt Hancock and Boris Johnson are trying to persuade us that it’s our civic duty to take part in their Covid-19 ‘test and track’ programme. But their approach – based on secrecy, exceptionalism and deception – means our civic duty may well be to resist the programme actively, argues Paul Bernal.
The Covid19 pandemic has exposed many of the social and economic contradictions underlying our normality. Adopting a short-termist crisis mentality in our response cannot be the answer, writes Nora Ziegler.
In its lurid depictions of strange kinds of jobs – idealised and precarious and dangerous – Tiger King perfectly echoes our Lockdown anxieties about the nature and politics of work, write Mareile Pfannebecker and James A. Smith.
In the first of an occasional series, Ceasefire’s theory columnist Andy McLaverty-Robinson examines Giorgio Agamben’s much-criticised analysis of the Covid-19 crisis.
Yanis Varoufakis talks to Ceasefire’s Laura Siegler about building a transnational movement to tackle climate change, the ongoing crisis of capitalism, and his return to Greek politics.
As the UK enters its seventh week of lockdown, we must ask questions about the effects of the government’s indefinite measures, particularly on marginalised groups and those who are already overpoliced, writes Ghazal Tipu.
In seeking to buy Newcastle United, MBS is trying to use football to rebuild and rehabilitate an appalling global reputation. Even at this late hour, Ashley and his colleagues can still put human rights above profits and say no to this appalling deal, writes Andrew Smith.
Protecting the health of the public must remain the top priority of states tackling COVID-19, but emergency measures cannot ignore the economic realities and pressures facing the poor and vulnerable.
Hakim Bey’s general strategic perspectives, such as the TAZ, are complemented by a range of tactical proposals for political action. In the eighth of sixteen parts of his series on Bey, Andrew Robinson examines the strategic underpinnings for Bey’s political proposals.
The poems in ‘Galaxy Walk’, Shareefa Energy’s debut collection, come together to form a picture of a woman whose writing has offered her a way to live in a traumatic and complicated world, writes Rachel Seoighe in her review.
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