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Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Friday, December 19, 2014 12:23 - 3 Comments
Analysis | Inconvenient victims: Tracing the roots of anti-Armenianism in Israel
Robert Kazandjian traces the sources of the hostile treatment of Armenians in the Israeli press, placing it within the wider historical and political context of the region.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Friday, December 5, 2014 13:37 - 0 Comments
Analysis | Operation Skybreaker: When the State Co-opts the ‘Community’
Sita Balani examines Operation Skybreaker, a pilot scheme launched by the Home Office in July 2014 across five of London’s most racially diverse boroughs. She argues the scheme is a worrying harbinger of future government policies and epitomises the Home Office's growing tendency to deploy notions of community, charity and consent in their attacks on undocumented migrants.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, November 6, 2014 12:41 - 0 Comments
Ideas | Making Sense of Revolutionary Waves
In the second essay of their three-part series on revolutionary waves, Laurence Cox and Alf Gunvald Nilsen explore how such waves can be explained from a Marxist perspective.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, October 9, 2014 14:06 - 3 Comments
Comment | ‘More welcome in a cage than on a stage': On ‘Exhibit B’, Censorship and Liberal Outrage
When the Barbican cancelled its 'Exhibit B' show two weeks ago, after a campaign by anti-racism campaigners, many within the liberal media cried censorship. Yet there was virtual silence when a Grime showcase event was cancelled at the same venue earlier this year. Such markedly different reactions highlight the power relations underpinning our cultural institutions, argues joel sharples.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 17:32 - 2 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.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, August 27, 2014 17:11 - 44 Comments
Comment | “You know what is happening”: Letter to an Israeli friend
When Akkas Al-Ali's Israeli friend accused him of "siding with terrorists" in Gaza, he decided to write the following letter in response.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Sunday, July 20, 2014 16:48 - 18 Comments
Analysis | Israel’s attack on Gaza is the culmination of 66 years of settler-colonialism
Israel claims its latest onslaught against the population of Gaza is a response to Hamas rocket-fire, targeted at "terrorists" and motivated to "restore quiet." However, an analysis of the IDF's public relations points and war doctrines as well as the historical context of the events, shows the root cause of the crisis to be Israel's decades-long programme of violent settler colonialism.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Saturday, July 19, 2014 19:16 - 9 Comments
An A to Z of Theory | Neoliberalism, Higher Education and Sanaz Raji’s Struggle for Justice
Amrit Wilson reports on the extraordinary case of Sanaz Raji, a tale of persecution and injustice that has highlighted the deep-set and dark prejudices at the heart of British higher education.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Monday, June 9, 2014 20:58 - 2 Comments
Comment | ‘Nobody listened to me': Blair’s dismissal of the anti-war movement has fuelled violent extremism
More than a decade on since the February 15 2003 protests, it is time to acknowledge that the UK government's refusal to heed the calls of the anti-war movement might have been directly responsible for fuelling violent extremism in the UK, Ian Sinclair argues.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, May 21, 2014 13:49 - 4 Comments
Comment | However well-meaning, the ‘Live Below The Line’ campaign is spurious and patronising
The 'Live Below The Line' campaign, ostensibly aimed at highlighting the plight of the poor, seems to have turned into yet another conduit for putting people who are already privileged in the limelight, argues Maya Oppenheim.
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