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New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, October 17, 2017 17:23 - 0 Comments
Comment | Patriarchy, Islamophobia and Misogyny: On challenging the politics of Sikh Youth UK
Katy Sian reflects on being the target of online abuse after calling out the Islamophobic and patriarchal tendencies within British Sikh activist circles.
New in Ceasefire - Monday, October 9, 2017 17:17 - 0 Comments
Theatre | Review | ‘Searingly humane, compelling theatre’: My Name Is Rachel Corrie (Young Vic)
The new production of 'My Name is Rachel Corrie' offers not only compelling theatre but a searingly humane portrait of an extraordinary life, writes Hicham Yezza.
New in Ceasefire - Friday, October 6, 2017 17:51 - 0 Comments
Arts & Culture | Exhibition | Pop Art From North Africa (P21 Gallery)
Rachida Lamri reviews the ‘Pop Art From North Africa’ exhibition, currently running at the P21 gallery in London. Walking among the engagingly parodic displays feels like a stroll into the psyches not of individual artists but of collective identities and narratives, she writes.
New in Ceasefire - Sunday, October 1, 2017 19:59 - 0 Comments
Analysis | Batons vs Ballots: On the Catalan Referendum
Today's brutal crackdown on the Catalan separatist movement by the Spanish government is a turning point in an ongoing confrontation that threatens to destabilise Spanish democracy and bring darker forces from Spain’s history back onto the stage, writes Matt Carr.
New in Ceasefire - Saturday, September 30, 2017 11:04 - 0 Comments
Film | Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle
Sophia Akram reviews Paul Sng's new documentary, 'Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle', which examines the creeping drive for gentrification in the UK under the guise of regeneration.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Friday, September 29, 2017 19:14 - 3 Comments
Comment | So long, Hugh Hefner, and good riddance
Hugh Hefner made his millions through commodifying women’s bodies, all the while pretending women he'd turned into commodities enjoyed their subjugation. We will never be able to fully gage the damage he did, writes Jen Izaakson.
Editor's Desk, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, September 19, 2017 7:47 - 1 Comment
Interview | Lowkey: On Militarism, Foreign Policy and the Arms Trade [VIDEO]
After a long hiatus, one of the UK's most celebrated political artists, Lowkey, has returned with new music and a UK tour. His forthcoming video, "Lords of War", deals with the issue of drone warfare and the arms trade. He talks to Tom Barns about foreign policy, austerity and militarism.
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.
Arts & Culture, Books, New in Ceasefire - Friday, September 15, 2017 18:17 - 0 Comments
Books | ‘Mr Dickens and his Carol’: The Ghosts of Dickens, and Grenfell
Asim Qureshi reviews Samantha Silva's new novel, 'Mr Dickens and his Carol', and wonders how Dickens would have felt were he to see Grenfell's mass grave of the impoverished and downtrodden, standing as an edifice to our indifference.
Arts & Culture, Books, New in Ceasefire - Friday, September 8, 2017 12:00 - 0 Comments
Books | Review | “Tumblr Liberalism” vs The Serious Authentic Left: On Angela Nagle’s Kill All Normies
If the left is to have the same degree of success in translating online cultures into political movements, then it needs to understand both the online world and its own history. Kill All Normies helps with neither of those things, and is unlikely to win support beyond those already convinced of its central, conservative, thesis, writes Josh Davies.
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