Politics
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Friday, October 30, 2020 10:30 - 2 Comments
Ideas | Revisiting ‘Race’: Towards a Decolonial Curriculum
Revising the British school curriculum is an important way of disrupting the white eurocentric narratives of Empire that dominate our culture and politics; but any such decolonising efforts must centre ‘race', writes Dr Shaida Nabi.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Tuesday, September 29, 2020 12:06 - 0 Comments
Comment | Breonna Taylor: If Black lives matter, black deaths should matter too
The absence of indictments for the killers of Breonna Taylor highlights the entrenchment of systemic state racism in the US, writes Mike Friedberg.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Tuesday, September 22, 2020 10:49 - 0 Comments
Comment | Palantir: Why is the UK Government giving our money to Trump’s deportation profiteers?
Recent revelations that controversial US tech firm Palantir had secured a major UK government contract should trouble us all, writes Andrew Smith.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Monday, September 7, 2020 15:22 - 0 Comments
Comment | Stop trying to educate fascists
As a teacher, I believe in education and positive discourse. But you can’t engage with people who deny your humanity, and it is useless to take a ground of moral suasion with people who do not have morals, writes Mike Friedberg.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Friday, September 4, 2020 16:08 - 1 Comment
Comment | We should not save Pret
British workers should not have to gamble with their lives in order to save a sandwich chain. Instead, we should seize this moment to force changes to our office work culture, argues Paul Ray.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Wednesday, July 29, 2020 16:55 - 0 Comments
Comment | The UK military 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, Politics - Wednesday, July 1, 2020 17:35 - 2 Comments
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.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Friday, May 29, 2020 10:47 - 3 Comments
Comment | Why it’s your civic duty not to download the UK’s contact tracing app
Matt Hancock and Boris Johnson are trying to persuade us that it’s our civic duty to take part in their Covid-19 ‘test and track’ programme. But their approach - based on secrecy, exceptionalism and deception - means our civic duty may well be to resist the programme actively, argues Paul Bernal.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Tuesday, May 26, 2020 10:17 - 0 Comments
Ideas | Against Crisis Mentality
The Covid19 pandemic has exposed many of the social and economic contradictions underlying our normality. Adopting a short-termist crisis mentality in our response cannot be the answer, writes Nora Ziegler.
