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Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, March 10, 2015 18:45 - 1 Comment
Comment">How the UK ‘security’ Industry Fuels Human Rights Abuses Around the World Comment
This week, between March 10-12, the quiet English town of Farnborough will play host to the Security and Policing 2015 conference and exhibition. This event will bring together some of the world's biggest arms companies with some of the worst human rights abusers, writes Andrew Smith.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Monday, February 2, 2015 19:28 - 1 Comment
Ideas">First we take Athens, then we take Berlin? Syriza’s victory and the twilight of Neoliberalism Ideas
Last week's Greek electoral earthquake has left in its wake a wave of hope that an alternative to neoliberalist orthodoxy is possible. Laurence Cox and Alf Gunvald Nilsen examine the prospects of further breakthroughs elsewhere in Europe.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, January 15, 2015 14:16 - 0 Comments
Ideas">What To Do In A Revolutionary Wave Ideas
In the final installment of their three-part examination of revolutionary waves, Laurence Cox and Alf Gunvald Nilsen consider their practical implications for activists and social movements.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Friday, December 19, 2014 12:23 - 7 Comments
Analysis">Inconvenient victims: Tracing the roots of anti-Armenianism in Israel Analysis
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’ Analysis
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 Ideas
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 Comment
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 - 5 Comments
Ideas">What Makes a Revolution? Ideas
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 Comment
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 - 23 Comments
Analysis">Israel’s attack on Gaza is the culmination of 66 years of settler-colonialism Analysis
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.
