September, 2014
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 17:32 - 5 Comments
Ideas | What Makes a Revolution?
Current debates over whether the world is experiencing a revolutionary wave assume a past history of such waves yet rarely examine in any depth the historical record. In their first essay of a three-part series on the subject, Laurence Cox and Alf Gunvald Nilsen look at revolutionary waves in history.
Books, New in Ceasefire - Sunday, September 28, 2014 19:31 - 0 Comments
Books | Review | ‘Assata: An Autobiography’ by Assata Shakur
In the aftermath of events in Ferguson, Missouri, a newly released edition of a key text of the black liberation canon, 'Assata: An Autobiography', is a necessary reminder of how potently the echoes of the civil rights era remain with us today, argues Terence Elliott-Cooper.
New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Thursday, September 25, 2014 23:30 - 13 Comments
Analysis | Story of a War Foretold: Why we’re fighting ISIS
Nafeez Ahmed examines how the rise of ISIS was both predicted and evitable, and argues the West's current military campaign is already being used to neuter mass surveillance reforms at home and will likely produce further political destabilisation in the region.
In Theory, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, September 24, 2014 12:38 - 2 Comments
An A to Z of Theory | Alain Badiou: The Excluded Part and the Evental Site
Andrew Robinson examines the conditions for the emergence of an Event through the lens of Badiou's theory of social exclusion, and explains why, for Badiou, a truly revolutionary process must begin from the standpoint of the worst-off.
Columns, Ghosts of History, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, September 3, 2014 0:00 - 2 Comments
Ghosts of History | The Tasmanian Aborigines
In the first installment of a new series, 'Ghosts of History', on the forgotten victims of European colonialism, Ceasefire's Xain Storey examines the genocide of the Tasmanian Aborigines.
