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The expansion of the war from Palestine to Iran, which began on 13 June, signals an Israeli obsession persisting for four decades.…
Tariq Ali
Writer, journalist and film-maker Tariq Ali was born in Lahore in 1943. He owned his own independent television production company, Bandung, which produced programmes for Channel 4 in the UK during the 1980s. He is a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio and contributes articles and journalism to magazines and newspapers including The Guardian and the London Review of Books. He is editorial director of London publishers Verso and is on the board of the New Left Review, for whom he is also an editor. He writes fiction and non-fiction and his non-fiction includes 1968: Marching in the Streets (1998), a social history of the 1960s; Conversations with Edward Said (2005); Rough Music: Blair, Bombs, Baghdad, London, Terror (2005); and Speaking of Empire and Resistance (2005), which takes the form of a series of conversations with the author.
To the victors, the spoils. A hundred years ago, after the conclusion of the First World War, the British Empire and its…
Acclaimed scholar and activist Tariq Ali joins us for a wide-ranging conversation. In Part 1, he responds to Trump’s support of the…
None but a few corrupt cronies will be shedding tears at the tyrant’s departure. But there should be no doubt that what…
We speak to acclaimed historian, activist and filmmaker Tariq Ali about Western governments’ support for Israel’s war on Gaza and popular protest…
The High Court’s decision to permit Julian Assange to appeal his pending extradition is an important, if partial, victory. The judges are…
The level of ignorance in Western coverage of the border clashes between Iran and Pakistan should come as no surprise. Nor should…
Last week, hundreds of UK health workers shut down the central London headquarters of US tech giant and spy firm Palantir to…
In December 1987, a new intifada erupted in Palestine, shaking Israel as well as the elites of the Arab world. A few weeks…
For much of the past week, former Pakistani Prime Minster Imran Khan’s house in Lahore has been surrounded by armed police, and…