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New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, October 27, 2021 18:26 - 0 Comments
Analysis | Profits before People: Britain’s unjust housing system preys on asylum seekers
The logic of asylum housing is simply an extension of the housing system in the UK more broadly. They are both underpinned by profiteering, deregulation, and racism, write Bogumila Hall and Ola Hall.
New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, October 13, 2021 19:31 - 0 Comments
Interview | The Bigotry of Man: “Darwin’s views on race were far from radical”
It is 150 years since the publication of Darwin's The Descent of Man. Kezia Picard sat down with Samuel Grove, author of Retrieving Darwin’s Revolutionary Idea, to talk about the radical and reactionary implications of Darwin’s theory.
New in Ceasefire - Thursday, September 16, 2021 19:08 - 0 Comments
Analysis | The Girl in the Mirror: On Media Representations and Aesthetics of Shamima Begum
Shamima Begum has become the repository of Britain's self-mythology around the ‘dangers’ of having so many of 'them’ amongst 'us', writes Fatima Rajina.
New in Ceasefire - Sunday, August 15, 2021 18:56 - 0 Comments
Passing for Normal | Elevation
Over several months during lockdown, Dave Prescott became increasingly aware of an urge to see over the hedge of his back garden and across to the hills beyond. Naturally, he began to investigate the concept of an elevated chair.
New in Ceasefire - Friday, August 13, 2021 17:07 - 1 Comment
Exhibition | Forensic Architecture: Cloud Studies (Whitworth Gallery)
From Gaza to Grenfell, Forensic Architecture’s latest exhibition, Cloud Studies, documents the perpetration of, and resistance to, slow violence as it is enacted by states and corporations, writes Esther Kaner in her review.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Thursday, August 12, 2021 19:11 - 0 Comments
Comment | Forcing the bend: On the police killing of Anthony Alvarez
When Anthony Alvarez was fatally shot five times in the back by a Chicago police officer earlier this year, Mike Friedberg joined the local protests demanding justice and accountability. What ensued is a story of cruelty and impunity which is as disturbing as it is familiar in today's America, he writes.
New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, July 20, 2021 11:25 - 0 Comments
Comment | The Shawcross Prevent Review will lead to greater criminalisation of activism — We must stop it
As the official Shawcross review of Prevent gets under way, and a parallel People’s Review gathers steam to challenge it, it is crucial for us to understand the Government's intentions behind the Shawcross charade, argues Alim Islam.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Monday, July 19, 2021 10:27 - 0 Comments
Ideas | Diversity of Tactics is Not a Compromise – it’s Praxis!
The dichotomy between violence and non-violence is not a moral or logical one, but rather is rooted in differences of power that can be challenged and transformed through diversity of tactics, argues Nora Ziegler.
Editor's Desk, New in Ceasefire - Sunday, July 18, 2021 10:23 - 0 Comments
Comment | America the Unredeemed: James Baldwin’s radical vision
James Baldwin’s critique of American life remains one of the preeminent interventions of the Civil Rights movement. In the wake of the Trump era and the rise of BLM, Baldwin's radical vision is more relevant than ever, writes Zwan Mahmod.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Tuesday, June 8, 2021 11:01 - 0 Comments
Comment | Britain’s media rears its Islamophobic head again
Last week's Mail Online article about Muslim "no-go-areas" is the latest episode in the UK media's chronic demonisation and misrepresentation of British Muslim communities, a trend which shows no signs of abating, writes Hamza Ali Shah.
