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New in Ceasefire - 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 - 1 Comment
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 - 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.
New in Ceasefire - Saturday, October 10, 2020 10:16 - 0 Comments
Analysis | “Whatever it is the Parliament does”: On Egypt’s redundant, theatrical elections
This month Egypt holds its latest round of parliamentary elections. But what purposes do such elections serve in a military autocracy? Quite a few, actually, writes Hesham Shafick.
New in Ceasefire - Friday, October 9, 2020 8:51 - 0 Comments
Analysis | PREVENT’s cheerleaders fear intellectual scrutiny, for good reason
Attempts to demonise serious intellectual critiques of the UK Government's counter-extremism programme are not just vacuous but dangerous, argues Dr Layla Aitlhadj.
New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, September 30, 2020 16:52 - 0 Comments
Analysis | Big Tech vs The Left: How Facebook (almost) blocked Chomsky
Two weeks ago, a livestream of Noam Chomsky’s address at the Progressive International summit was censored momentarily by Facebook. The episode has brought to the fore the power of unaccountable social media platforms to censor dissenting ideas, as well as our collective need for an alternative, writes Harry Halpin.
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.
Editor's Desk, New in Ceasefire - Friday, September 25, 2020 12:09 - 2 Comments
Analysis | Should you use the UK Government’s new Coronavirus Contact Tracing App? Well…
The UK Government's new Covid-19 contact-tracing app for England and Wales is a marked improvement on its dismal earlier attempt, but should you use it? It's complicated, writes Paul Bernal.
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.
Editor's Desk, New in Ceasefire - Friday, September 18, 2020 11:45 - 0 Comments
Comment | Lebanon: Even freedom of expression, our last bastion, is now under threat
As Lebanon reels from deepening political unrest and the repercussions of last month's horrific port explosion, an alarming crackdown on freedom of expression is gathering momentum, writes Lebanese novelist Naji Bakhti.
