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 - 9 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.
More Ideas
- Analysis | Goddard’s ‘Westminster Mob’ are a threat to our common future
- Analysis | The far right is no longer a marginal force in British politics
- Comment | The Resistible Rise of Saint Tommy
- Comment | Nakba Day: Marking 70 Years of Palestinian dispossession, and resistance
- Analysis | “How could they all be so wrong?”: Reflections on the 2017 General Election
More In Politics
- Analysis | What kind of Labour anti-racist movement do we want?
- Comment | Britain’s homelessness crisis shames us all
- Comment | After Khashoggi: This toxic UK-Saudi relationship cannot continue
- Comment | The Abdi Ali tragedy shows Britain is still failing its black men and boys
- Comment | The Bahraini authorities are slowly killing my father. Why is Theresa May helping them?
More In Features
- Special Report | The world’s shameful, ongoing failure to hold Burma to account
- Interview | Elsa Lefort: “The fate of my husband, Salah Hamouri, does not matter to our leaders”
- Photo Essay | Tindouf: A bright spark in Saharawi-Algerian solidarity
- Interview | “When governments criminalise journalism, we need to push back”: Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy and Sue Turton
- Special Report | Against Israel’s brutality, Palestinians remain undeterred
More In Profiles
More In Arts & Culture
- Theatre | Review | The Shroud Maker: Lives and death in Palestine
- Theatre | Review | Translations (National Theatre)
- Books | Nincompoopolis: The Follies of Boris Johnson
- Comment | The tone-deafness of privilege: Justin Timberlake at the Super Bowl
- Books | Shy Radicals: The Antisystemic Politics of the Militant Introvert, by Hamja Ahsan