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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.
The consequences of 11 September remain visible on several fronts. Psychologically, the American empire has constructed a new enemy: Islamic terrorism. Its…
The military response of the American Empire to September 11 has made the world more dangerous and insecure. Its political strategy has…
Remember when you approached me after the big antiwar meeting in November 2001 (I think it was Glasgow) and asked whether…
Exactly one year before the hijackers hit the Pentagon, Chalmers Johnson, a distinguished American academic, staunch supporter of the US during the…
This is the story of why V.S. Naipaul’s comic masterpiece, A House for Mr Biswas, which won him the Nobel Prize for…
Ali I was in Turin at the Book Fair recently participating in a round-table to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the left-wing…
Ali ‘Don’t worry,’ New Farmer Blair told a visiting delegation of over a hundred sheep when news of the plague first reached…
Judy Rebick The social summit held recently in Porte Allegre Brazil seems to have inspired everyone who attended that, in the slogan…
Tariq Ali As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the present. American leaders have long been used…