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Books, New in Ceasefire - Monday, January 6, 2014 20:21 - 2 Comments
Ideas">Pan-African Classics: Walter Rodney’s Legacy Ideas
Amber Murrey pays tribute to the legacy of Walter Rodney, whose book 'How Europe Underdeveloped Africa' transformed the modern debate on slavery and colonisation.
Books, New in Ceasefire - Monday, December 30, 2013 15:07 - 3 Comments
Books">Review | The Front Man: Bono (In the Name of Power) by Harry Browne Books
Around the world, U2 lead singer Bono is seen as the archetypal celebrity philanthropist, jetting across the globe campaigning against hunger and injustice in Africa and elsewhere. Harry Browne’s new book, The Frontman, unmasks a very different picture.
Books, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, November 28, 2013 11:04 - 1 Comment
Books">Review | ‘Class and Contemporary British Culture’ by Anita Biressi and Heather Nunn Books
Elliot Murphy reviews a compelling and often disturbing account of how class identification and cultural tags shape people’s self-image and their image of others.
Arts & Culture, Books, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, November 12, 2013 16:10 - 7 Comments
Books">A Fight Far From Over: Patrice Lumumba’s Legacy Books
To mark the publication of Patrice Lumumba, a new collection of the African independence leader’s speeches in their original French, we publish an exclusive translation of Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja's introduction to the volume.
Arts & Culture, Books, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, October 17, 2013 22:51 - 5 Comments
Book Review">Marxism and Social Movements Book Review
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.
Books, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, July 2, 2013 15:41 - 1 Comment
Comment">NATO and terror in Libya: The peace movement must oppose the militarisation of Africa Comment
Horace Campbell, author of a forthcoming book on NATO's global impact, argues that its record in Libya provides sobering lessons for all Africans.
Books, New in Ceasefire - Monday, April 22, 2013 15:17 - 60 Comments
Books">Review | Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO’s War on Libya and Africa by Maximilian Forte Books
In his Ceasefire review, Dan Glazebrook examines Maximilian Forte's withering indictment of liberal humanitarianism and its collusion in imperialist designs on Africa, as seen in NATO's Libya campaign of 2011.
Books, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, April 3, 2013 11:40 - 4 Comments
Books">Review | ‘Unhitched: The Trial of Christopher Hitchens’ by Richard Seymour Books
Elliot Murphy reviews Richard Seymour's "enjoyable and relentless attack" on Christopher Hitchens,one of the most influential and controversial polemicists of the past three decades.
Books, New in Ceasefire - Friday, March 8, 2013 0:00 - 1 Comment
Books">Review | On The Front Line: The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin Books
In 2012, Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin was killed in Syria. Reviewing a new collected volume of Colvin's journalism, Heather McRobie asks what lessons we might draw from her life.
Books, New in Ceasefire - Sunday, February 3, 2013 0:00 - 2 Comments
Books">‘The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes’ by Jonathan Rose Books
As the marketisation of universities accelerates, maintaining forms of education which value the pursuit of knowledge as an end in itself has become a crucial and necessary challenge. Elliot Murphy revisits a classic study by Jonathan Rose that explores the pre-war culture of self-education amongst the British working classes.
