Features
Features, Politics - Tuesday, July 27, 2010 12:22 - 2 Comments
Police brutality, CPS pusillanimity and the future of demonstrations
"Not since the Life on Mars days of the 1970s have we seen Police corruption on this scale," writes Willard Foxton. "Policing doesn't work unless people respect and support the Police - and increasingly, the actions of the TSG are turning more and more people against them."
Arts & Culture, Features, Film & TV - Tuesday, June 8, 2010 12:56 - 23 Comments
Why Avatar is a truly dangerous film
Avatar is widely seen as a 'progressive' film. In fact, argues Hana Shams Riazuddin, it is a classic tale of popular Orientalist discourses on colonialism - where the natives must rely on the white anthropologist to become fully human.
Arts & Culture, Books, Features - Friday, February 12, 2010 5:59 - 0 Comments
Book Review: “The Cleanest Race” by B.R. Myers
Brian Myers is an American academic based in Pusan who has a remarkable and original (at least in Anglophone scholarship) thesis regarding what North Korea "is". The standard media line is that North Korea remains the last hardline Stalinist dictatorship in the world. Indeed, whilst China, Vietnam, Laos and Cuba remain as constitutionally communist regimes, they are relatively mild in their human rights abuses, and they are to varying degrees pursuing economic reform along Neoliberal lines. Many scholars continue to refer to pre-Soviet collapse North Korea as a "National Stalinist dictatorship", with its own Korean eccentricities certainly (the bizarre personality cult for one).
Arts & Culture, Books, Features - Wednesday, February 10, 2010 11:41 - 4 Comments
Samuel Beckett: The politics of vegetables
By David Prescott ‘Gardening. No hope for the future.’ Franz Kafka ‘At least he had gardening.’ Samuel Beckett At a time when words mean whatever powerful people want them to mean, it seems futile to believe in their (I mean words’) ability to bridge the chasms of loneliness between people that lead to war. But […]
Ceasefire Bites, Features, Politics, Profiles - Monday, December 7, 2009 12:14 - 0 Comments
Chomsky: London lectures and an 81st birthday
Today, Noam Chomsky is 81. A few weeks ago, at his London lecture series - widely anticipated to be his last in the UK - he addressed crowds numbering in their thousands. Musab Younis covered his talks for Ceasefire.
Features, The Anti-Imperialist - Thursday, November 26, 2009 0:03 - 0 Comments
Africa, racism and the West
US military intervention in Africa, writes Adam Elliott-Cooper, is premised on a Western understanding of a global racial hierarchy in which Africans are at the bottom.
Features, Interviews, Profiles - Tuesday, September 1, 2009 10:09 - 0 Comments
Interview Noam Chomsky (2008)
Noam Chomsky discusses Israel and Palestine, anarcho-syndicalism, China and India, the anti-war movement, and public intellectuals with Ceasefire editor Hicham Yezza. Chomsky, notes Yezza, has the unique "ability to bring out the mind of his listener out of its atrophied comfort."
Editor's Desk, Features, Politics - Thursday, August 27, 2009 1:21 - 0 Comments
Invisible men: On the real cost of police incompetence
Of course, anyone serious enough about discussing the consequences of such police incompetence could easily point out the extreme damage it causes to the communities they affect, often exacerbating the very dangers allegedly been combated.
But again, this is too obvious a point for serious commentators to linger on.
