colonialism
Africlimate, New in Ceasefire - Friday, January 3, 2014 12:45 - 3 Comments
Africlimate">The DRC: Beyond the atrocities, an emerging environmental crisis Africlimate
With much of the analysis of the events in the Congo concentrating on ethnic conflicts, Ceasefire's Luqman Onikosi looks at the environmental destruction and its effects on the lives of the people in the region.
New in Ceasefire - Thursday, August 1, 2013 14:39 - 3 Comments
Analysis">‘You want your land back?’ The Geo-Politics of Military Bases, Empire and Independence Analysis
The Ministry of Defence's latest threat to keep Faslane as sovereign territory in the event of Scottish Independence should be seen in the context of Britain's imperial history of maintaining military bases against the wishes of local people across the world.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Friday, February 22, 2013 21:38 - 2 Comments
Comment">Sorry, colonies, we’re just not ready to say sorry yet Comment
David Cameron’s trip to India has been marked by his refusal to offer a full apology for the 1919 Amritsar massacre. Sometimes, that pesky colonial legacy just won’t go away, will it? Wonders John Lubbock.
Ceasefire Bites, Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, June 5, 2012 15:43 - 3 Comments
Blog">An Oddly British Jubilee Weekend Blog
A weekend away in a quiet coastal town over the Jubilee Weekend, Adam Elliott-Cooper writes, can tell some interesting stories about the legacies of Empire
New in Ceasefire, The Anti-Imperialist - Friday, January 6, 2012 11:51 - 10 Comments
The Anti Imperialist">Blaming the victim: what the Diane Abbott controversy tells us about institutional racism The Anti Imperialist
Diane Abbott’s controversial words might have been clumsy but the reaction to them has been a lot more instructive than the tweets themselves. Attacks equating her comments with white racism are yet further indication, says Adam Elliott-Cooper, of how little we understand racism, and the power structures entwined with it.
Features, The Anti-Imperialist - Thursday, November 26, 2009 0:03 - 0 Comments
Africa, racism and the West
US military intervention in Africa, writes Adam Elliott-Cooper, is premised on a Western understanding of a global racial hierarchy in which Africans are at the bottom.
