Politics
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Tuesday, May 11, 2021 16:54 - 0 Comments
Comment | The UK government should stop putting arms sales ahead of the lives of Palestinians
Time and again, successive UK governments have put arms sales ahead of the rights and lives of Palestinians. That long and shameful policy must stop, writes Dana Aboul-Jabine.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Sunday, April 25, 2021 19:36 - 0 Comments
Comment | Boris Johnson’s anti-ICC stance is an endorsement of Israeli impunity against Palestinians
This week Boris Johnson declared his opposition to an International Criminal Court investigation of Israeli actions in the occupied Palestinian territories. By standing in the way of justice and allowing Israel to act with impunity, Johnson is complicit in the suffering of the Palestinian people, writes Taj Ali.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Sunday, February 21, 2021 15:52 - 1 Comment
Comment | Dear Sadiq Khan, the last thing British schools need is more police
This week, London mayor Sadiq Khan became the latest politician to endorse greater police presence in British schools. This is a deeply misguided position, writes Roxy Legane.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Thursday, February 18, 2021 21:06 - 1 Comment
Comment | Defending free speech on UK campuses means defending the right to organise
The Government's latest effort to regulate free speech in UK universities is a threat not just to academic freedom but to political organising and dissent on campus, and must be challenged on those terms, writes Azfar Shafi.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Thursday, January 28, 2021 14:11 - 0 Comments
Comment | A decade after the Arab Spring, Western hypocrisy over arms sales is more brazen than ever
This week marks a decade since the 25 January revolution in Egypt. Much has changed since, but one exception is the US and UK governments’ habit of praising democracy and human rights while selling arms to the autocrats flouting them, writes Andrew Smith.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Friday, January 8, 2021 12:37 - 0 Comments
Politics | “We will never concede”: The Capitol Hill riot did not come out of nowhere
The normalisation of right-wing populism made the historic breach into Capitol Hill possible. It should worry us that this brand of politics is growing in Britain too, writes Hamza Ali Shah.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Monday, December 7, 2020 9:00 - 1 Comment
Comment | Why are ‘ethical’ UK universities investing in Israel’s apartheid?
It is imperative that universities abide by their own ethical investment policies and remove all links with companies and institutions complicit in human rights abuses, argues Taj Ali.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Saturday, October 31, 2020 14:12 - 0 Comments
Comment | The cost of Covid: Britain cannot afford more austerity
Chronic underfunding of public services, and years of cuts have left working-class communities more vulnerable to the coronavirus pandemic. We cannot afford a repeat of austerity, we need an alternative, writes Taj Ali.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Friday, October 30, 2020 10:30 - 4 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 - Thursday, October 29, 2020 9:27 - 0 Comments
Analysis | Sovereignty and Spycops: Agamben and the Criminal Conduct Bill
Two weeks ago British MPs passed the Criminal Conduct Bill, which allows UK public authorities to commit crimes while undercover. Agamben's theory of sovereignty can help us understand what the bill means for the expansion of state power and states of exception, argues Tom Goodyer.
