Ceasefiremagazine.co.uk Website Review

Last week, a homeless man was found dead yards away from the Houses of Parliament, the latest victim of Britain's homelessness crisis. Sam In the latest in his essay series on Hakim Bey's work, Andrew Robinson examines Bey's best known concept: the Temporary Autonomous Zone, TAZ. In October 2010, Jimmy Mubenga, a 46-year-old father of five, died on a British Airways plane at Heathrow after being restrained violently by G4S guards. Eight years on, his death continues to speak volumes about structural injustice, institutional racism, and state and In the Shroud Maker, Palestinian playwright Ahmed Masoud brings a welcome dose of gallows humour to the most tragic of canvas*es, writes For decades, successive UK governments have fuelled, armed and enabled a terrible regime to continue its authoritarian rule over Saudi Arabia. It shouldn't take the disappearance and death of a journalist for UK politicians to realise this must end, writes Andrew Smith. ended their month-long hunger strike. In a powerful essay, one of the detainees explains why they went on hunger strike, and why their to Boris Johnson, with the far right is a sign the latter is no longer a marginal force in British politics, argues Paul Stocker, author of few miles from his home. He had been missing for eight months. Ahead of a fundraiser in his memory tomorrow, Sam Asumadu asks why his story human rights activist was arrested in a pre-dawn raid by Israeli soldiers at his home in occupied East Jerusalem. He has been in indefinite detention ever since. Sawsan Bastawy speaks to his wife, Elsa Lefort, about her anger at the French government’s indifference examines Bey’s theory of capitalism, his critique of ‘cop culture’ and his comments on American global hegemony; and provides ‘Translations’ is a remarkable take on the central — and perennially relevant — questions of place, belonging and dislocation, argues Ananya Wilson-Bhattacharya in her review.