Tariq Ali discusses May ’68 on BBC Radio 3
1968 was one of the most seismic years in recent history — Vietnam, the Prague spring, Black Power at the Olympics and protests on the streets of Paris and London so this evening’s programme — Rana...
View ArticleThat was the year that was: Tariq Ali talks to David Edgar
Would you say a few things about your family background. My family belonged to the Khattar tribe in the Attock District. It was a landed family. Genealogists traced its descent from the 11th-century...
View ArticleWe Shall Fight, We Will Win: Tariq Ali On The Black Dwarf and 1968
The Black Dwarf was announced with a free broadsheet on 1 May 1968 and published four weeks later. The inspiration was the struggle of the Vietnamese liberation movement against American imperialism...
View ArticleThe Paras in Kabul
Exactly four years ago I wrote a piece for the LRB on Corbyn’s victory: “The establishment decided to wheel out the chief of defence staff, Sir Nicholas Houghton. Interviewed on 8 November, he confided...
View ArticleJulian Assange Outside the Gate of Hell
I’ve been to see Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy several times, mainly when Rafael Correa was President and the Embassy felt like a liberated space. A few weeks ago I met him again. By now...
View ArticleNotes on the Indian Election
Originally published on the LRB blog. That Narendra Modi would win again was never really in dispute. The only question was whether the Bharatiya Janata Party would be forced to seek coalition...
View ArticleKashmir on the Edge of the Abyss
Originally published on the NYRB daily. In an unsettled world, amid violent wars and imperial occupations, with all norms ruthlessly cast aside, did Kashmir really have a chance to be free? As unrest...
View ArticleSuspicious
Review of An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent by Owen Matthews. Originally published in the London Review of Books, 21st November 2019. The skills of the three top Soviet spies of...
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