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New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, January 26, 2021 13:19 - 0 Comments
Special Report | As countries around the world push for nuclear disarmament, the UK and its allies resist
More than 75 years after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a landmark agreement prohibiting nuclear weapons has come into force this week. However, the five original nuclear powers, including the UK, stand in opposition. Steve Shaw reports.
New in Ceasefire - Thursday, January 21, 2021 16:00 - 0 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.
New in Ceasefire - Sunday, January 10, 2021 15:06 - 0 Comments
Comment | Why you should leave WhatsApp, and how
As WhatsApp prepares to share even more of our personal data across the Facebook network, now is a good time to take stock of our online privacy options.
New in Ceasefire - Friday, January 8, 2021 12:37 - 0 Comments
Politics | “We will never concede”: The Capitol Hill riot did not come out of nowhere
The normalisation of right-wing populism made the historic breach into Capitol Hill possible. It should worry us that this brand of politics is growing in Britain too, writes Hamza Ali Shah.
New in Ceasefire - Monday, December 7, 2020 9:00 - 0 Comments
Comment | Why are ‘ethical’ UK universities investing in Israel’s apartheid?
It is imperative that universities abide by their own ethical investment policies and remove all links with companies and institutions complicit in human rights abuses, argues Taj Ali.
New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Sunday, November 8, 2020 9:51 - 0 Comments
Special Report | As another election looms in Myanmar, its democratic transition remains a facade
This Sunday, almost 40 million people in Myanmar will have their chance to vote in their country’s second multi-party election in decades. Yet this democratic opening remains nothing more than a façade, Steve Shaw reports.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Saturday, October 31, 2020 14:12 - 0 Comments
Comment | The cost of Covid: Britain cannot afford more austerity
Chronic underfunding of public services, and years of cuts have left working-class communities more vulnerable to the coronavirus pandemic. We cannot afford a repeat of austerity, we need an alternative, writes Taj Ali.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Friday, October 30, 2020 10:30 - 3 Comments
Ideas | Revisiting ‘Race’: Towards a Decolonial Curriculum
Revising the British school curriculum is an important way of disrupting the white eurocentric narratives of Empire that dominate our culture and politics; but any such decolonising efforts must centre ‘race', writes Dr Shaida Nabi.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Thursday, October 29, 2020 9:27 - 0 Comments
Analysis | Sovereignty and Spycops: Agamben and the Criminal Conduct Bill
Two weeks ago British MPs passed the Criminal Conduct Bill, which allows UK public authorities to commit crimes while undercover. Agamben's theory of sovereignty can help us understand what the bill means for the expansion of state power and states of exception, argues Tom Goodyer.
Editor's Desk, New in Ceasefire, Politics - Saturday, October 10, 2020 10:16 - 0 Comments
Analysis | “Whatever it is the Parliament does”: On Egypt’s redundant, theatrical elections
This month Egypt holds its latest round of parliamentary elections. But what purposes do such elections serve in a military autocracy? Quite a few, actually, writes Hesham Shafick.
