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New in Ceasefire, Politics - Monday, October 6, 2014 16:05 - 5 Comments
Politics">‘The right kind of perpetrator’: Race, religion and gender in the Rotherham child abuse scandal Politics
Recent coverage of the Rotherham child exploitation case has focused on the race, religion and ethnic background of the perpetrators. This fits neatly into a right-wing discourse around the supposed tyranny of political correctness and distracts from the prominent role of white, establishment figures in sexually exploiting children.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 17:32 - 5 Comments
Ideas">What Makes a Revolution? Ideas
Current debates over whether the world is experiencing a revolutionary wave assume a past history of such waves yet rarely examine in any depth the historical record. In their first essay of a three-part series on the subject, Laurence Cox and Alf Gunvald Nilsen look at revolutionary waves in history.
Books, New in Ceasefire - Sunday, September 28, 2014 19:31 - 0 Comments
Books">Review | ‘Assata: An Autobiography’ by Assata Shakur Books
In the aftermath of events in Ferguson, Missouri, a newly released edition of a key text of the black liberation canon, 'Assata: An Autobiography', is a necessary reminder of how potently the echoes of the civil rights era remain with us today, argues Terence Elliott-Cooper.
New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Thursday, September 25, 2014 23:30 - 13 Comments
Analysis">Story of a War Foretold: Why we’re fighting ISIS Analysis
Nafeez Ahmed examines how the rise of ISIS was both predicted and evitable, and argues the West's current military campaign is already being used to neuter mass surveillance reforms at home and will likely produce further political destabilisation in the region.
In Theory, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, September 24, 2014 12:38 - 2 Comments
An A to Z of Theory">Alain Badiou: The Excluded Part and the Evental Site An A to Z of Theory
Andrew Robinson examines the conditions for the emergence of an Event through the lens of Badiou's theory of social exclusion, and explains why, for Badiou, a truly revolutionary process must begin from the standpoint of the worst-off.
Columns, Ghosts of History, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, September 3, 2014 0:00 - 2 Comments
Ghosts of History">The Tasmanian Aborigines Ghosts of History
In the first installment of a new series, 'Ghosts of History', on the forgotten victims of European colonialism, Ceasefire's Xain Storey examines the genocide of the Tasmanian Aborigines.
Film & TV, New in Ceasefire - Friday, August 29, 2014 12:32 - 2 Comments
Interview">Film | Annemarie Jacir: “I’m not interested in showing the West that ‘Palestinians are humans, too'” Interview
Award-winning Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir talks to Ceasefire's Jumanah Younis about her latest film, the critically acclaimed 'When I Saw You', recently released in the UK.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Thursday, August 28, 2014 22:51 - 6 Comments
Politics">Iraq, ISIS and intervention: How the mainstream media failed again Politics
Once again, the spectre of war and destruction is hovering across Iraq and, once again, the mainstream media is acting as an uncritical supporter of Western intervention.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, August 27, 2014 17:11 - 44 Comments
Comment">“You know what is happening”: Letter to an Israeli friend Comment
When Akkas Al-Ali's Israeli friend accused him of "siding with terrorists" in Gaza, he decided to write the following letter in response.
In Theory, New in Ceasefire - Monday, August 18, 2014 17:09 - 0 Comments
An A to Z of Theory">Alain Badiou: The State An A to Z of Theory
In his latest examination of the work of the Alain Badiou, Andrew Robinson explores an important aspect of Badiou's ontology, and a central one to his political writings: the State. Robinson explains why Badiou's concept of the state is both political and ontological, why the state is the enemy of the Event, and why Badiou both wishes to, and yet often feels unable to, call for the destruction of the state.
