December, 2011
Beautiful Transgressions, New in Ceasefire - Saturday, December 31, 2011 9:00 - 0 Comments
Beautiful Transgressions | The Tide is Turning: from the Feminisation of Poverty to the Feminisation of Resistance
In her latest column, Sara Motta argues that the feminisation of poverty is becoming a feminisation of resistance, particularly in the Global South. What lessons can we learn from these struggles?
Features, New in Ceasefire - Friday, December 30, 2011 7:48 - 2 Comments
Comment | Onward Christian Soldiers? Imperial Christianity and Resistance
In a climate of social upheaval, with millions rising against consumerism, individualism, and apathy, how is it, Malte Ringer asks, that ecclesiastical hierarchies haven't rushed to embrace the Occupy and anti-austerity movements?
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, December 29, 2011 19:10 - 0 Comments
Arts & Culture | Jonathan Swift: icon of 2011?
Jonathan Jacobs argues that Swift's Irish Writings speak, with unusual precision, to a very current moment in resistance.
New in Ceasefire, North African Dispatches - Wednesday, December 28, 2011 19:06 - 0 Comments
North African Dispatches | What next for the African Union?
In the second instalment of a two-part essay, Kateb Salim reflects on the Arab Spring's implications for African Unity in the wake of this year's upheavals in Sudan, Côte d'Ivoire and Libya.
Books, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, December 27, 2011 12:00 - 0 Comments
Books | Review: ‘School Wars’ by Melissa Benn
Andrew Fleming reviews 'School Wars' by Melissa Benn, and discusses how a focus on the reactionary nature of recent education reforms threatens to obscure a vastly more important and unprecedented change to the way our nation’s schools work.
New in Ceasefire, Palestine is Still the Issue - Saturday, December 24, 2011 0:00 - 1 Comment
Palestine is Still the Issue | PLO embrace of Hamas could signal paradigm shift
Reports emerging from Cairo that Hamas might be on the verge of joining the Palestine Liberation Organisation could prove extremely significant, says Asa Winstanley.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Friday, December 23, 2011 0:00 - 0 Comments
Analysis | European Parliament: an unexpected victory for Western Sahara
The European Parliament's decision last week to end the EU-Morocco fisheries agreement is a historic one, argues Stefan Simanowitz.
New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Thursday, December 22, 2011 12:00 - 0 Comments
Comment | Ireland: From capitalist binge to ‘austerity’ hangover
Earlier this month, the Irish government announced a new set of harsh austerity plans as part of its 2012 budget. Lily Murphy argues that the country's current woes, and gloomy-looking future, can be traced directly to the folly of its 'boom years'.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Wednesday, December 21, 2011 12:00 - 3 Comments
Comment | Why aren’t we re-nationalising British railways?
This week's sharp increases in UK rail fares provide yet another reminder of the monumental failure of the privatisation project. And yet, as Musab Younis points out, the obvious solution, re-nationalisation, continues to be unmentionable.
New in Ceasefire, The Anti-Imperialist - Tuesday, December 20, 2011 12:00 - 4 Comments
The Anti-Imperialist | Stephen Lawrence, Lord MacPherson and Sergeant XX
As the long-standing suspects of Stephen Lawrence's murder are put on trial, Adam Elliott-Cooper argues that only by understanding the context of institutional racism, and the overarching power structures that give rise to it, can we fully address these crimes and seek justice for their victims.
More Ideas
- Analysis | Goddard’s ‘Westminster Mob’ are a threat to our common future
- Analysis | The far right is no longer a marginal force in British politics
- Comment | The Resistible Rise of Saint Tommy
- Comment | Nakba Day: Marking 70 Years of Palestinian dispossession, and resistance
- Analysis | “How could they all be so wrong?”: Reflections on the 2017 General Election
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- Analysis | What kind of Labour anti-racist movement do we want?
- Comment | Britain’s homelessness crisis shames us all
- Comment | After Khashoggi: This toxic UK-Saudi relationship cannot continue
- Comment | The Abdi Ali tragedy shows Britain is still failing its black men and boys
- Comment | The Bahraini authorities are slowly killing my father. Why is Theresa May helping them?
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- Special Report | The world’s shameful, ongoing failure to hold Burma to account
- Interview | Elsa Lefort: “The fate of my husband, Salah Hamouri, does not matter to our leaders”
- Photo Essay | Tindouf: A bright spark in Saharawi-Algerian solidarity
- Interview | “When governments criminalise journalism, we need to push back”: Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy and Sue Turton
- Special Report | Against Israel’s brutality, Palestinians remain undeterred
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More In Arts & Culture
- Theatre | Review | The Shroud Maker: Lives and death in Palestine
- Theatre | Review | Translations (National Theatre)
- Books | Nincompoopolis: The Follies of Boris Johnson
- Comment | The tone-deafness of privilege: Justin Timberlake at the Super Bowl
- Books | Shy Radicals: The Antisystemic Politics of the Militant Introvert, by Hamja Ahsan