Rough Music: Blair, Bombs, Baghdad, London, Terror

Rough Music: Blair, Bombs, Baghdad, London, Terror is a 2005 book by British-Pakistani writer, journalist, political activist and historian Tariq Ali.

Synopsis

The book is a reaction to the 7 July 2005 London bombings, which Ali describes as "murderous mayhem that Blair's war has sown in Iraq". The book criticises perceived attacks on civil liberties. He invokes "great dissenters" of the past and calls for "political resistance, within Parliament and without".^[1]^{[non-primary source needed]}

Reception

The book was reviewed in the peer-reviewed academic journal Current Issues in Criminal Justice^[2] and Arena magazine.^[3]

References

^ "Rough Music: Blair, Bombs, Baghdad, London, Terror". Verso Books. Retrieved 2016-10-16.
ISSN 1034-5329
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^ Nairn, Tom (2006-02-01). "The new Furies: Tariq Ali's newest book calls for Britain to re-examine its role as one of the real sources of insecurity in the globalised world order". HighBeam Research. Arena Magazine. Archived from the original on 2018-11-18. Retrieved 2015-09-21.

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Essays and
monographs

Bush in Babylon (2003)

Rough Music: Blair, Bombs, Baghdad, London, Terror (2005)

The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power (2008)

The Obama Syndrome (2010)

The Extreme Centre (2015)

The Dilemmas of Lenin (2017)

Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes (2022)

Novels

Redemption (1990)

Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree (1992)

Fear of Mirrors (1998)

The Book of Saladin (1998)

Edited volumes

The Stalinist Legacy (1984)

Masters of the Universe? NATO's Balkan Crusade (2000)

Films

Partition (1987, writer)

Wittgenstein (1993, producer)

South of the Border (2009, writer)

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[1] "Rough Music: Blair, Bombs, Baghdad, London, Terror". Verso Books. Retrieved 2016-10-16.

[2] ISSN 1034-5329
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[3] Nairn, Tom (2006-02-01). "The new Furies: Tariq Ali's newest book calls for Britain to re-examine its role as one of the real sources of insecurity in the globalised world order". HighBeam Research. Arena Magazine. Archived from the original on 2018-11-18. Retrieved 2015-09-21.

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