May, 2012
Interviews, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, May 31, 2012 0:00 - 3 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.
Counterpoetics, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, May 30, 2012 17:27 - 0 Comments
Counterpoetics | FOR TALHA AHSAN
In this month's offering, Ceasefire's poet-in-residence Dominic Fox pays homage to Ceasefire's poet-in-prison, Talha Ahsan, detained without charge for almost six years, and currently facing the prospect of extradition to the US.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, May 30, 2012 15:34 - 11 Comments
Analysis | What Israel’s anti-African pogroms tell us about Zionism
A week ago, Tel Aviv's African migrant community came under a sustained mob attack, including vandalism, looting and firebombing. Robert Kazandjian, Ali Hocine Dimerdji and Samantha Asumadu argue that these events, and their aftermath, provide further evidence of the inherently racist nature of political Zionism.
Film & TV, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, May 29, 2012 12:38 - 3 Comments
Film & TV | Review: Elite Squad & Elite Squad: The Enemy Within
Murray Goulden revisits two acclaimed, powerful dramas about corruption and crime in Rio De Janeiro.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Monday, May 28, 2012 0:58 - 3 Comments
Special Report | South Africa: victory for student hunger strike against staff sackings
Micah Roshan Reddy reports from Wits University, South Africa, where a hunger strike by students against a proposed abusive sacking of 17 catering staff became an international campaign and secured a remarkable victory.
New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Sunday, May 27, 2012 23:54 - 3 Comments
Special Report | NATO Summit Protests – Chicago 2012
Ceasefire's Ashok Kumar reports from Chicago on the city's anti-NATO protests, which took place last weekend.
New in Ceasefire, Palestine is Still the Issue - Saturday, May 26, 2012 14:18 - 1 Comment
Palestine is Still the Issue | Reflections on the current state of popular resistance in Palestine
Having just returned from a weeks-long stay in Palestine, Ceasefire columnist Asa Winstanley reflects on the changing dynamics of Palestinian civil resistance.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Friday, May 25, 2012 13:14 - 2 Comments
Comment | A Gulf Apart: a Tale of Two Arabs
The Arab world, Kareem Sabbour argues, is a pan-ethnicity inextricably bound by history yet inconspicuously divided by modernity.
New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Thursday, May 24, 2012 17:39 - 0 Comments
Special Report | NUS Black Students Summer Conference 2012
Ceasefire's Adam Elliott-Cooper reports from this year's NUS Black Students Summer Conference, which took place last weekend.
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Editor's Desk, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, May 23, 2012 12:23 - 8 Comments
Editorial | Nick Robinson: how (not) to report a planned war crime
A BBC news story has revealed UK politicians are planning to offer diplomatic, possibly military, support to an Israeli attack against Iran, despite the fact this would break international law, inflame the Middle East and endanger British citizens everywhere.
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- Ideas | The Welfare State is our living memorial: The Tory assault on it is a national betrayal
- Ideas | Fathers and Fascism: The Oedipal Landscape of the Le Pens
- Ideas | “You are not You anymore”: On the Torture of Theon Greyjoy
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- Politics | ‘We mean nothing to them’: Grenfell, London’s Katrina
- Comment | She’s not indifferent … We are: On our Culture of Denial in the ‘War on Terror’
- Comment | When is a rapist no longer a rapist? On the cost-free repentance of Tom Stranger
- Comment | Fifty years on, the Black Panthers should be honoured — Not in prison
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- Photo Essay | After Grenfell Tower: On the decades-long war on social housing
- Special Report | What was Theresa May actually doing in Saudi Arabia? And who was she doing it for?
- Special Report | “The world has a responsibility to get this blockade on Gaza lifted”: Women’s Boat to Gaza illegally detained by Israel
- Special Report | Does the Prevent strategy have any credibility left?
- Special Report | “Solidarity is being criminalised”: Anger as Greek police raids refugee housing squats and camps
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- Film & TV | Zeus in Gaza: On the cognitive dissonance of watching Wonder Woman
- Film | ‘Get Out’: A bone-chilling, discomfort-inducing, laughter-provoking artistic and political triumph
- Books | Review | Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics
- Film | Review | The Journey from Syria: “I wish we could have this life in our country”
- Film | Review | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Nihilism and Mansplaining