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New in Ceasefire, North African Dispatches, Politics - Wednesday, January 26, 2011 11:22 - 1 Comment
North African Dispatches KEFAYA!
In this week's North African Dispatches, Kateb Salim revisits Orwell's dystopia to explain recent events in the Maghreb. After Tunisia, it seems Egypt might soon follow....
New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, January 25, 2011 14:00 - 15 Comments
Delaying adulthood, emerging adulthood or adulthood in crisis?
In this Ceasefire Blog, Hana Riazuddin insightfully explores the social, cultural and psychological influences on young people's transition from student life to adulthood, and asks, how will we ever become adults, and more importantly when?
New in Ceasefire, North African Dispatches - Wednesday, January 19, 2011 11:20 - 3 Comments
North African Dispatches “Ben Ali, c’est fini!”
This week's round-up from North Africa describes how the Tunisian population’s unrelenting pressure throughout the country which saw the end to the Ben Ali system. Mohamed Bouazizi’s passing away, alongside the hundreds of other dead in the repression, Kateb Salim argues, will not have been in vain.
New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Friday, January 14, 2011 13:54 - 0 Comments
Islamabad’s Afghan policy: the struggle for Pakistan’s soul
Pakistan's national security is crucially linked to its neighbour, Afghanistan - yet, argues Harry Verhoeven, the country now finds itself held hostage by the key power blocs whose own interests are understood to represent the 'national interest'.
New in Ceasefire, North African Dispatches - Wednesday, January 12, 2011 10:51 - 10 Comments
North African Dispatches Riots rock North Africa
This week, Kateb Salim looks at the conflict across the streets of North Africa in his regular news round-up, arguing that recent developments reveal more complex motivations behind the “food riots”.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, January 11, 2011 18:07 - 3 Comments
‘The cult of novelty’, 1968 and all that
Luke Cooper argues that the historical experience of the post-1968 radicalisation lays down some challenges to proponents of a new, non-hierarchical left in Britain that they are yet to fully answer
In Theory, New in Ceasefire - Friday, January 7, 2011 7:37 - 16 Comments
In Theory Giorgio Agamben: the state and the concentration camp
In a detailed and penetrating analysis - the first of two parts - political theorist Andrew Robinson looks at the work of the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, who posits that states are inseparable from concentration camps, building their sovereignty on a rejection of the value of human life.
Features, New in Ceasefire - Monday, January 3, 2011 11:46 - 9 Comments
Why we shouldn’t centralise the student movement: protest, tactics and ways forward
In a detailed analysis, Markus Malarkey argues the strength of the movement has been its spontaneity and fluid decision-making, which could be substantially undermined by attempts at centralisation.
Irish Times, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, December 29, 2010 14:38 - 0 Comments
Irish Times A Monthly Round-Up
In this month’s edition of his ‘Irish Times’ column, our Political Editor, Omayr Ghani, provides a round-up of events including Gerry Adams's confrontation with Murdoch, issues faced by the opposition in Northern Ireland and financial issues in the Republic of Ireland.
New in Ceasefire, The Anti-Imperialist - Sunday, December 19, 2010 0:00 - 2 Comments
The Anti-Imperialist South Africa: A revolution betrayed?
The South African revolution is often seen as one of the most historic events of the twentieth century, a national struggle based on an international network of solidarity that cut across racial, national and class boundaries. However, the neoliberal economic agenda pursued by the ANC has been enforcing measures that contradict the very principles of its Freedom Charter. Ceasefire Associate Editor Adam Elliott-Cooper looks at how a revolution is losing its way.
