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New in Ceasefire - Monday, August 3, 2020 10:21 - 0 Comments
Comment | How did we arrive here? On the Anniversary of Egypt’s Rabaa Massacre
This month marks the seventh anniversary of the Rabaa Massacre, which signalled the end of Egypt’s once promising democratic project. While the military’s role in the revolution’s defeat is clear, Egypt’s liberal and leftist forces must examine their own complicities and failures, writes Hesham Shafick.
New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, July 29, 2020 16:55 - 0 Comments
Comment | The UK military admits it has a racism problem, but can it be decolonised?
Without a national reckoning and the political will to face our colonial past and abandon the violent obligations of a junior partnership with the US, decolonising our military seems unlikely, writes Joe Glenton.
New in Ceasefire - Friday, July 24, 2020 11:44 - 0 Comments
Special Report | Othering in the time of Pandemic
Global responses to the Covid-19 pandemic, from Singapore to the United States, have too often involved greater stigmatisation of already marginalised communities, notably migrants, refugees and minorities. This is not just morally abhorrent but presents serious dangers to global public health, argue Sanam Monteiro and Renugaa R.
New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, July 22, 2020 16:38 - 0 Comments
Analysis | Strained Solidarities: On (re)building a mass anti-racist movement in Britain
Anti-racist activists in the UK must eschew stale debates over terminology and representation, and instead focus on building a movement rooted in structural knowledge and powered by cross-communal solidarity, write Ilyas Nagdee and Azfar Shafi.
New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, July 1, 2020 17:35 - 1 Comment
Comment | Israel’s Annexation Plan: The UK government must stop putting arms sales ahead of the rights and lives of Palestinians
Israel's proposed annexation of parts of the West Bank is a grave violation and injustice against the people of Palestine. The UK's rhetorical objections are not enough, there must be an end to UK arms sales to Israel and the message of political and military support that they send, writes Andrew Smith.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Tuesday, June 30, 2020 15:27 - 6 Comments
Comment | Let’s Measure the Exact Angle: A Palestinian Perspective on the Maxine Peake controversy
"Why is nobody asking us, the Palestinians, what we think?" Author and playwright Ahmed Masoud offers his perspective on the Maxine Peake controversy.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Monday, June 29, 2020 14:10 - 3 Comments
Ideas | ‘Counter-Terrorism’ is a dangerous myth, it is high time we abolished it
At a moment when demands for police and prison abolition have travelled from the radical fringes into mainstream prominence, the radical social transformation that we seek requires nothing less than the abolition of the category of ‘terrorism’ altogether and the dismantling of the global counter-terrorism infrastructure, writes Eda Seyhan.
Arts & Culture, Books, New in Ceasefire - Friday, June 26, 2020 11:31 - 1 Comment
Books | Review | ‘Chav Solidarity’ by D. Hunter
"A guide and a balm, a meditation on the politics of survival and an appeal to extend our arms towards each other". Chav Solidarity, by D. Hunter, is a book that must be read, writes Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, June 25, 2020 14:56 - 0 Comments
Ideas | On The Politics of Window Smashing: Black Lives Matter and White Allyship
Self-described white allies must stop indulging in facile, exploitative narratives surrounding the BLM protests, writes Jamie Ranger.
Arts & Culture, Books, New in Ceasefire - Friday, June 19, 2020 8:43 - 0 Comments
Books | The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity by Darryl Li
If the global War on Terror has taught us anything, it is that it is very easy to write badly about Muslims, particularly in the context of conflict. Darryl Li's ‘The Universal Enemy’ stands as a salutary antidote to so much that passes for scholarship on the subject, writes Asim Qureshi in his review.
