October, 2013
New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Wednesday, October 23, 2013 20:42 - 1 Comment
Special Report | DSEI 2013: Impeding the world’s biggest arms fair
London's arms fair, held last month, exposed the militarism and hypocrisy of the UK government's rhetoric on human rights, but it also faced new levels of disruption by campaigners, including daily direct action.
In Theory, New in Ceasefire - Friday, October 18, 2013 20:27 - 5 Comments
An A to Z of Theory | Walter Benjamin: Culture and Revolution
As a critical theorist and revolutionary, Walter Benjamin sought the political transformation of the arts as a means to bring about social change. In the fifth of an eight-part series, Andrew Robinson discusses Benjamin's work on cultural politics, covering the topics of Surrealism, storytelling and cultural production.
Arts & Culture, Books, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, October 17, 2013 22:51 - 5 Comments
Book Review | Marxism and Social Movements
Amidst a dearth of politically judicious and penetrating analyses of contemporary popular mobilisations, a new book, 'Marxism and Social Movements', represents a timely and refreshing contribution to social movement studies. Puneet Dhaliwal reviews.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Friday, October 11, 2013 17:50 - 8 Comments
Comment | Blacklisted for Being Muslim: On Quilliam, the EDL and the Islamophobia industry
As UK construction firms are due to pay compensation for their unlawful blacklisting of thousands of workers, it appears another neo-McCarthyite blacklisting drive is under way, this time against Muslims, writes Yvonne Ridley.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Thursday, October 10, 2013 17:24 - 0 Comments
Special Report | Egypt: ‘Write your Constitution’ campaign gathers momentum
Last month, the National Council for Women launched a campaign to survey tens of thousands of Egyptians on their preferences regarding the current constitutional review process. Alessandra Bajec reports from Cairo.
New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Tuesday, October 8, 2013 10:57 - 2 Comments
Special Report | India: Notes from the Struggle in the Narmada Valley
The Jal Satyagraha protests and subsequent arrests in the Dewas, Hardwa and Khandwa districts of Madhya Pradesh in India are the latest round in perhaps the country's longest-running environmental and social movement since Independence. Matthew Birkinshaw reports.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Sunday, October 6, 2013 9:12 - 5 Comments
Comment | Idle No More: Native Canadians’ anti-colonial struggle must be waged in Britain too
On October 7, indigenous communities and supporters are taking to the streets across Canada and globally with a day of action to assert their indigenous sovereignty, and participation across the UK is called for as Britain’s colonial legacy continues.
More Ideas
- Analysis | For the Many: How Labour’s 2017 General Election Manifesto changed everything
- 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
- Analysis | Gaza’s wake-up, unifying call: Reflections on The Great Return March
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- Comment | Yemen: The UK government is complicit in a humanitarian catastrophe
- Comment | The World Cup: Playing fair, on and off the pitch
- Comment | Marching with pride in Turkey, despite the crackdown
- Comment | Fighting Antisemitism: We cannot cherry-pick which racism to fight
- Comment | The Land Day Massacre: The cost of our continued inaction is paid for with Palestinian lives
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- 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
- Comment | What UK politicians can, and must, do about the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal
- Analysis | ‘Their Jobs, Our Education’: How the USS strike took university managers by surprise
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More In Arts & Culture
- 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
- Books | An Anthem of a Revolution That Was — A Revolution That Will Be: ‘The City Always Wins’ by Omar Robert Hamilton
- Television | ‘My Week As a Muslim’: A well-meaning, patronising caricature
- Theatre | Review | ‘Searingly humane, compelling theatre’: My Name Is Rachel Corrie (Young Vic)