Editorial – Spring 2008
Editor's Desk - Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 17:16 - 0 Comments
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Do you believe in free speech? Do you believe in open debate? Do you believe in in-depth analysis and no-nonsense opinions? If your answer to all these questions is to the affirmative then Ceasefire Magazine needs you.
This is our fifth year and we believe the need for a radical forum of opinions and ideas is more acute and more pressing than ever. The fourth estate has always maintained an uneasy relationship with the powers of the day, but it’s virtually impossible to be a truly independent journal these days when faced with the daunting pressures that afflict the press as a matter of course: financial strains, institutional pressures, censorship (including self-censorship) – all the way to the most overt kind of bullying. But publish we must. “Speak truth to power” we shall. We believe in the power of ideas and we would like you, dear readers, to join us in our quest for a more sustainable, better-run world. Idealism is dismissed as an irrelevant luxury in a world dominated by cynicism and realpolitik. Well idealism might be redundant, but idealists certainly not. From Martin Luther King to Mandela, it’s the very people who think the unthinkable that make the impossible … possible.
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Peace, etc.
Hicham Yezza
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- 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
- Analysis | Gaza’s wake-up, unifying call: Reflections on The Great Return March
More In Politics
- 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?
- Comment | How much more suffering must Yemenis take before the UK ends its arms sales?
- Analysis | For the Many: How Labour’s 2017 General Election Manifesto changed everything
More In Features
- 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
- Comment | What UK politicians can, and must, do about the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal
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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
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