Special Reports
New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Wednesday, November 15, 2017 14:22 - 0 Comments
Special Report | “Do the right thing”: Campaigners urge Nottingham University to pay the Living Wage
A protest held yesterday at the University of Nottingham, demanding it pays all its staff the Living Wage, is another positive step in a growing UK-wide movement for fairer working conditions. Andrea Oates reports.
New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Sunday, September 17, 2017 17:45 - 0 Comments
Special Report | The EU’s approach to the Mediterranean migration crisis is costing lives
New measures introduced by EU states, notably Italy, are focusing on reducing the numbers of people crossing the Mediterranean rather than on saving lives. Sabrina Tucci reports.
New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Thursday, September 7, 2017 12:13 - 0 Comments
Special Report | Dabke dancing, Football and Hip-Hop: A week of protests in the lead-up to the DSEI arms fair
This week, activists from all over the UK have come to London to stop military equipment from getting into the setup of DSEI, one of the world’s biggest arms fairs. We will unite and mobilise as many people as possible against DSEI's message of perpetual-war and military escalation, writes Andrew Smith of Campaign Against Arms Trade.
New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Friday, September 1, 2017 11:30 - 0 Comments
Special Report | ‘War starts here, let’s stop it here’: Anger as death-dealers head for London
In the final essay in our three-part #StopDSEI series, Paul Cudenec reports on the toxic politics at the heart of DSEI, the world's largest arms fair, and the protest action set to greet it in London's Docklands next week, with opponents aiming to physically to stop it being set up.
New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Wednesday, April 5, 2017 21:50 - 0 Comments
Special Report | What was Theresa May actually doing in Saudi Arabia? And who was she doing it for?
Theresa May's Saudi visit this week is a stark reminder of the troubling, and largely hidden, relationship between the UK Government and the UK Arms industry. Joe Lo reports.
New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Friday, October 7, 2016 14:21 - 1 Comment
Special Report | “The world has a responsibility to get this blockade on Gaza lifted”: Women’s Boat to Gaza illegally detained by Israel
Two days ago, thirteen women - including a Nobel Peace Prize winner - on a peaceful mission to break the illegal blockade on Gaza were abducted in international waters and detained in an Israeli prison. Vyara Gylsen reports.
New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Monday, October 3, 2016 15:32 - 0 Comments
Special Report | Does the Prevent strategy have any credibility left?
A groundbreaking report, published on Thursday by advocacy group CAGE, has revealed that the scientific framework underpinning the government’s counter extremism strategy is based on extremely flawed research, bolstering calls for the strategy to be scrapped. Dilly Hussain reports.
New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Wednesday, August 3, 2016 15:17 - 0 Comments
Special Report | “Solidarity is being criminalised”: Anger as Greek police raids refugee housing squats and camps
Last week saw police raids on refugee housing squats and camps across Greece, which resulted in the demolition of a long-term refuge space and a hundred refugees and accomplices arrested and hauled off before the courts. One of them, Can Simit, reports from Thessaloniki.
New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Friday, June 10, 2016 13:41 - 0 Comments
Special Report | Miracles and Mirages: Greed and corruption have created a doping epidemic in Sport
The recent history of doping in professional cycling suggests the problem is widespread and systemic in other sports too, undermining our ability to believe in sporting success stories, from Michael Phelps to Leicester City. We must learn the lessons before it is too late, argues Sam Walton.
New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Tuesday, March 29, 2016 15:30 - 1 Comment
Special Report | From Women Refugees to International Students: The State’s War on Migrants
In the general context of structural racism facing Black, Muslim, and other oppressed communities, the UK state’s war on migrants is playing an increasingly central role. But in the face of these attacks, argues Malia Bouatia, we are also witnessing a growing amount of resistance.
