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New in Ceasefire - Thursday, September 5, 2019 21:05 - 0 Comments
Analysis | Beyond the Glittery Façade: Examining the UAE’s role in the global War on Terror
It might present a modern, progressive face to the world, but the UAE, more than any other country in the Arab world, has played a crucial and disreputable role in supporting the US-led global War on Terror, argues Asim Qureshi.
New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, September 4, 2019 10:39 - 0 Comments
Comment | #StopDSEI: The UK’s support for the arms industry must end
Next week, dozens of the planet's most repressive governments will arrive in London to receive the full red carpet treatment by UK arms companies and civil servants. If we are to stop the UK’s role in fueling war and conflict around the world then it is time to end the arms sales and shut down events like DSEI for good, writes Andrew Smith.
New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, August 28, 2019 18:40 - 0 Comments
Notes from the Margins | Chronicle of a Coup Foretold: Boris Johnson’s assault on democracy must be stopped
To pursue No Deal without consensus is bad enough, but to undermine parliament in order to achieve it is a gross violation of executive power, and must be opposed by anyone who cares about the integrity of representative democracy in the UK, writes Matt Carr.
New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, August 28, 2019 16:43 - 0 Comments
Analysis | Youth Violence: Britain’s schools need greater support and investment, not more policing
Plans for greater police presence in UK schools may prove electorally lucrative but are part of the problem. The normalisation of police presence in British schools will irreparably transform them from places of learning and growth into sites of hyper-surveillance and trauma, argue Remi Joseph-Salisbury and Roxy Legane.
New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, August 20, 2019 16:55 - 0 Comments
Comment | Kashmir: The World Must Wake Up to Modi’s Fascistic, Paranoid Fantasies
India's ongoing crackdown in Kashmir should alert the world to the fascistic, tyrannical impulses driving Narendra Modi and his BJP movement, writes Katy Sian.
Blogs, Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, August 13, 2019 13:16 - 0 Comments
Comment | Is the Labour Party against empirical sociology? Some notes on power, elites and anti-racism
Empirical examinations of the structures of power, and the nature of elites, are essential to any anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movement. By deligitimising them, we undermine rather than strengthen the fight against racism, write Tom Mills and David Miller.
New in Ceasefire, Notes from the Margins, Politics - Wednesday, August 7, 2019 15:06 - 0 Comments
Notes from the Margins | The President of Hate
This week's mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio, have added another dismal chapter to America’s seemingly unstoppable litany of mass gun homicides. For the first time in American history, a generation of white supremacists and white nationalists are taking active inspiration from the man who occupies the White House, writes Matt Carr.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, July 30, 2019 12:40 - 0 Comments
Analysis | Shukri Abdi’s death should be a catalyst for radical social change
Last month, Shukri Yahya Abdi, a quiet, timid 12-year-old girl and refugee from Somalia, was found dead in a river near Manchester. Remi Joseph-Salisbury reflects on a tragedy that speaks volumes about the state of our politics today.
Editor's Desk, New in Ceasefire - Monday, July 29, 2019 8:27 - 0 Comments
Interview | Yanis Varoufakis: “Never before have we had so much money, yet so little investment in what humanity needs”
Yanis Varoufakis talks to Ceasefire's Laura Siegler about building a transnational movement to tackle climate change, the ongoing crisis of capitalism, and his return to Greek politics.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Monday, July 29, 2019 0:00 - 0 Comments
Comment | Britain’s shameful, complicit silence over Bahrain’s executions
On Saturday, Bahrain executed two political prisoners, Ali Al-Arab and Ahmed Al-Malali, amidst worldwide condemnation by politicians and human rights campaigners. The complicit silence of the UK government shows Britain has no respect for human rights, write Sam Walton and Eman Hashim.
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