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Ceasefire Magazine: Editorial

• Editorial | Beyond Kafka: this unjust detention and extradition of UK citizens must end
  In a few weeks, Talha Ahsan, Babar Ahmad, Gary McKinnon, Richard O'Dwyer and other UK citizens are facing the real prospect of extradition to the US for alleged crimes committed in the UK for which most have been detained for years without charge or evidence. This is a travesty of...
  
  
• On Corporate Power | Foundations for Empire: corporate philanthropy and US foreign policy
  In his latest column, Michael Barker argues that, far from eradicating poverty and aiding economic development, major US philanthropic foundations have played a key role in undermining efforts to promote a meaningful democratic alternative to capitalism, both at home and abroad.
  
  
• Analysis | Ramzy Baroud: The hands behind Sudan’s Oil War
  Author and columnist Ramzy Baroud provides an exclusive, eye-opening account of the latest developments, and rising tensions, in Sudan.
  
  
• An A to Z of Theory | Jean Baudrillard: a new system of meaning
  In the latest instalment of his series on Jean Baudrillard, political theorist Andrew Robinson explores the implications of the French thinker's theories of 'the code' and 'reproduction' for meaning and communication.
  
  
• Comment | Changing the subject: on “Asian grooming” as political fig leaf
  Some of the respected commentators on the recent "Asian grooming" case in Rochdale have their own skeletons in the closet. Musab Younis asks whether the focus on race might have provided a means of brushing aside the complicity in the rape and abuse of children entrenched in Britain's criminal justice...
  
  
• Comment | Ilan Pappé: the boycott will work, an Israeli perspective
  In the second of our exclusive extracts from "The Case For Sanctions Against Israel," Ilan Pappé, celebrated Israeli Historian and author, argues that the BDS movement is the best means to end Israel's oppressive occupation and prevent another Nakba.
  
  
• Comment | Hind Awwad “Six Years of BDS: Success!”
  To mark Nakba Day, we publish two exclusive extracts from "The Case For Sanctions Against Israel," a landmark collection featuring a stellar cast of contributors. In the first of these, Hind Awwad, coordinator with the Palestinian BDS National Committee, provides an overview of the remarkable achievements of the BDS movement...
  
  
• Books | Review: ‘Social Movements in the Global South’
  The role of activist researchers from wealthy nations in social movements in the Global South is a question rarely explored in academia. Adam Elliott-Cooper reviews an important new volume of scholarly accounts from across the Globe, edited by Sara Motta and Alf Nilsen.
  
  
• Theatre | Review: Cymbeline, South Sudan Theatre Company (Shakespeare’s Globe)
  Part of the 'Globe to Globe' programme of 37 plays in 37 languages, the SSTC's Cymbeline is heavy with historical and political parallels. Ceasefire's Derek Oakley is impressed.
  
  
• Music | Review: Brother Ali (XOYO)
  In anticipation of the release of his new album "Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color", US Hip-hop artist Brother Ali is currently on a UK tour. Ceasefire's Usayd Younis went to see him perform in London.