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Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, June 10, 2020 15:21 - 3 Comments
Ideas | Making It Count: Resisting the Authority of Ignorance
We are governed by pathological liars, buffoons, and brutish aristocrats, yet they keep getting away with it. Just what will it take to make the truth count and hold them accountable? Asks Sita Balani.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, May 5, 2020 14:34 - 0 Comments
Analysis | ‘Stay Home, Save lives, Ask Questions’: On proportionality during this crisis
As the UK enters its seventh week of lockdown, we must ask questions about the effects of the government's indefinite measures, particularly on marginalised groups and those who are already overpoliced, writes Ghazal Tipu.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, April 15, 2020 13:33 - 0 Comments
Analysis | Hypocrisy Promotion: Examining US policy in Latin America
While the US and its allies cite 'democracy promotion' as their motive for destabilising elected governments, their hypocrisy is exposed in the antidemocratic practices propping up the political Right across Latin America, writes Nick MacWilliam
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, April 9, 2020 9:22 - 1 Comment
Analysis | Covid-19 is hitting Britain’s BAME communities hardest
Whether as doctors, minimum-wage workers, or patients, the UK's BAME communities have been at the sharp end of the Covid-19 pandemic. Roxy Legane examines the racialised dimensions of a public health crisis.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, December 19, 2019 15:33 - 0 Comments
Analysis | After Corbyn: The British Left must reflect, learn and fight again
As it prepares to fight again, the British Labour left should not make the same errors committed by its centrist adversaries, argues James A. Smith.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, November 26, 2019 17:43 - 0 Comments
Analysis | The BBC cannot fight ‘fake news’ if it’s part of the problem
The failure of much of the British media, and the BBC in particular, to understand, or at least acknowledge, their role in the spreading of fake news, is potentially disastrous for our political future, writes Paul Bernal.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, October 29, 2019 16:29 - 0 Comments
Analysis | It is high time British universities took institutional racism seriously
Last week’s EHRC report into Racism in UK Higher Education paints a horrifying picture of the depth and scale of institutional racism in British Universities. It is sadly a missed opportunity, writes Clive James Nwonka.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, September 5, 2019 21:05 - 1 Comment
Analysis | Beyond the Glittery Façade: Examining the UAE’s role in the global War on Terror
It might present a modern, progressive face to the world, but the UAE, more than any other country in the Arab world, has played a crucial and disreputable role in supporting the US-led global War on Terror, argues Asim Qureshi.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, August 28, 2019 16:43 - 0 Comments
Analysis | Youth Violence: Britain’s schools need greater support and investment, not more policing
Plans for greater police presence in UK schools may prove electorally lucrative but are part of the problem. The normalisation of police presence in British schools will irreparably transform them from places of learning and growth into sites of hyper-surveillance and trauma, argue Remi Joseph-Salisbury and Roxy Legane.
Blogs, Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, August 13, 2019 13:16 - 0 Comments
Comment | Is the Labour Party against empirical sociology? Some notes on power, elites and anti-racism
Empirical examinations of the structures of power, and the nature of elites, are essential to any anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movement. By deligitimising them, we undermine rather than strengthen the fight against racism, write Tom Mills and David Miller.
