January, 2009
Ideas - Friday, January 9, 2009 5:07 - 1 Comment
Radicalism for beginners
The task of the radical is to take reason to unreasonable lengths. Dominic Fox explains.
Features - Friday, January 9, 2009 5:06 - 0 Comments
Remembering 1968
In 1968, French youths took to the streets of Paris demanding change and recognition - and incredibly, they got it. Forty years later, Camille Herreman examines the legacy of the movement and wonders if it has been a victim of its own success.
Features, The Anti-Imperialist - Friday, January 9, 2009 5:05 - 1 Comment
Africa: the return of colonialism
We tend to think of problems on the African continent as purely internal. But, argues Adam Elliott-Cooper, that ignores our own role in fuelling the brutal conflicts that are taking place.Politics - Friday, January 9, 2009 5:04 - 3 Comments
The gun-maker next door
Not many people are aware of it, but Nottingham is home to a major multinational arms company.
Politics - Friday, January 9, 2009 5:03 - 0 Comments
Fifth anniversary of the Iraq war – and of Ceasefire Magazine
We warned about the disastrous conequences of basing British foreign policy on a blind annexing of our national interests to those of the world’s superpower and, sure enough, many of those consequences have come to pass.Editor's Desk - Friday, January 9, 2009 5:02 - 0 Comments
Editorial – September 2008
This magazine is many things. It is an invitation, a call-to-arms and a cri-de-cœur. But above all it is a labour of love and we want you to share with us the utter joy and pride we feel in bringing it out to the world, time after time, edition after edition, against all odds.
Arts & Culture - Friday, January 9, 2009 4:55 - 0 Comments
Death of a genius
By many accounts, David Foster Wallace was the greatest American writer of the past 50 years.Arts & Culture - Friday, January 9, 2009 4:54 - 0 Comments
Mark Curtis reveals a very British contempt for democracy
Ben Rath Mark Curtis (2003) Web of Deceit: Britain’s Real Role in the World (London: Vintage) (2004) Unpeople: Britain’s Secret Human Rights Abuses (London, Vintage) Myth and illusion have always been central to the working of imperial power; how often we hear the lofty rhetoric of freedom, democracy, and human rights to justify aggression and […]
Columns - Friday, January 9, 2009 4:49 - 0 Comments
An unjustifiable police presence at climate camp
The police operation at this year’s climate camp was politically motivated and unjustifiable, writes a climate camper
