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Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, February 17, 2021 13:59 - 0 Comments
Analysis | The latest Prevent Review is a political charade, we must boycott it
The UK government’s latest review of its Prevent strategy is not only a political facade but a trojan horse to expand the programme. We must be united in our call for disengagement from it, and to demand nothing less than Prevent’s abolishment, argues Na’eem Ibn Farooq.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, January 21, 2021 16:00 - 2 Comments
Ideas | An End to Myth: For a New American Language
As the 2020 US elections have shown, national mythology remains at the heart of American identity and a bulwark of the status quo. For meaningful change, we need a new American language, writes Benjamin Parisi.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Friday, October 9, 2020 8:51 - 0 Comments
Analysis | PREVENT’s cheerleaders fear intellectual scrutiny, for good reason
Attempts to demonise serious intellectual critiques of the UK Government's counter-extremism programme are not just vacuous but dangerous, argues Dr Layla Aitlhadj.
Editor's Desk, Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, July 22, 2020 16:38 - 0 Comments
Analysis | Strained Solidarities: On (re)building a mass anti-racist movement in Britain
Anti-racist activists in the UK must eschew stale debates over terminology and representation, and instead focus on building a movement rooted in structural knowledge and powered by cross-communal solidarity, write Ilyas Nagdee and Azfar Shafi.
Editor's Desk, Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Monday, June 29, 2020 14:10 - 0 Comments
Ideas | ‘Counter-Terrorism’ is a dangerous myth, it is high time we abolished it
At a moment when demands for police and prison abolition have travelled from the radical fringes into mainstream prominence, the radical social transformation that we seek requires nothing less than the abolition of the category of ‘terrorism’ altogether and the dismantling of the global counter-terrorism infrastructure, writes Eda Seyhan.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, June 25, 2020 14:56 - 0 Comments
Ideas | On The Politics of Window Smashing: Black Lives Matter and White Allyship
Self-described white allies must stop indulging in facile, exploitative narratives surrounding the BLM protests, writes Jamie Ranger.
Editor's Desk, Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, June 10, 2020 15:21 - 2 Comments
Ideas | Making It Count: Resisting the Authority of Ignorance
We are governed by pathological liars, buffoons, and brutish aristocrats, yet they keep getting away with it. Just what will it take to make the truth count and hold them accountable? Asks Sita Balani.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, May 5, 2020 14:34 - 0 Comments
Analysis | ‘Stay Home, Save lives, Ask Questions’: On proportionality during this crisis
As the UK enters its seventh week of lockdown, we must ask questions about the effects of the government's indefinite measures, particularly on marginalised groups and those who are already overpoliced, writes Ghazal Tipu.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, April 15, 2020 13:33 - 0 Comments
Analysis | Hypocrisy Promotion: Examining US policy in Latin America
While the US and its allies cite 'democracy promotion' as their motive for destabilising elected governments, their hypocrisy is exposed in the antidemocratic practices propping up the political Right across Latin America, writes Nick MacWilliam
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, April 9, 2020 9:22 - 0 Comments
Analysis | Covid-19 is hitting Britain’s BAME communities hardest
Whether as doctors, minimum-wage workers, or patients, the UK's BAME communities have been at the sharp end of the Covid-19 pandemic. Roxy Legane examines the racialised dimensions of a public health crisis.
