Tariq Ali
Tariq Ali | |
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Punjab, British India | |
| Occupation | Historian novelist activist |
| Alma mater | Exeter College, Oxford, Government College University, Lahore |
| Genre | Geopolitics History Marxism Postcolonialism |
| Literary movement | New Left |
| Spouse | Susan Watkins |
| Children | 3 |
Tariq Ali (
He is the author of many books, including Pakistan: Military Rule or People's Power (1970), Can Pakistan Survive? The Death of a State (1983), Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity (2002),
Early life
Ali was born and raised in
Ali's father and mother, who were
Emerging activism
Ali first became politically active in his teens, taking part in opposition to the
Career
His public profile began to grow during the
Active in the
In 1967, Ali was in Camiri, Bolivia, not far from where Che Guevara was captured, to observe the trial of Régis Debray. He was accused of being a Cuban revolutionary by authorities. Ali then said: "If you torture me the whole night and I can speak Spanish in the morning I'll be grateful to you for the rest of my life."[17]
During this period he was an IMG candidate in Sheffield Attercliffe at the February 1974 general election and was co-author of Trotsky for Beginners, a cartoon book. In 1981, Ali quit the IMG and joined the Labour Party to support Tony Benn in his bid to become deputy leader of the Labour Party.[18]
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In 1990, he published the satire
His book, Clash of Fundamentalisms, aimed to put the events of the
Ali has remained a critic of modern neoliberal economics and was present at the 2005 World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, where he was one of 19 to sign the Porto Alegre Manifesto. He supports the model of the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela.[24]
He has been described as "the alleged inspiration" for the
Ali participated in the 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll, where he listed his ten favourite films as follows: The Battle of Algiers, Charulata, Crimson Gold, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Entranced Earth, If...., Osaka Elegy, The Puppetmaster, Rashomon, and Tout Va Bien.[27]
He has written in favour of Scottish independence.[28]
During the
In 2020, Ali was a member of the
In November 2020, a British public inquiry into the work of undercover police officers was provided with evidence that Ali had been spied upon by at least 14 undercover police officers over a period of decades. The surveillance began in 1965 when he became president of the Oxford Union, and continued until at least 2003, when Ali was on the national committee of the Stop the War Coalition trying to prevent the invasion of Iraq. Ali said "It is incredible to think that after 35 years, in 2003, under the Tony Blair Labour government, that Special Branch were still engaging in the same anti-democratic activity as they had been at the outset".[30]
Screenplay
Tariq Ali's The Leopard and The Fox, first written as a
In 2009, Ali with
Personal life
Ali currently lives in
Selected works
- The New Revolutionaries: A Handbook of the International Radical Left (editor), New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1969. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 79-79860
- Pakistan: Military Rule or People's Power (1970). ISBN 978-0-224-61864-9
- The Coming British Revolution (1971). ISBN 978-0-224-00630-9
- 1968 and After: Inside the Revolution (1978). ISBN 978-0-85634-082-6
- Chile, Lessons of the Coup: Which Way to Workers Power (1978) .ISBN 978-0-85612-107-4
- ISBN 978-0-906495-27-8
- Can Pakistan Survive?: The Death of a State (1983). ISBN 978-0-86091-260-6
- Who's Afraid of ISBN 978-0-86091-802-8
- ISBN 978-0-931477-56-0
- An Indian Dynasty: The Story of the Nehru-Gandhi Family (1985). ISBN 978-0-399-13074-8
- Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties (1987). ISBN 978-0-00-217779-5
- Revolution from Above: Soviet Union Now (1988). ISBN 978-0-86091-268-2
- Iranian Nights (1989). ISBN 978-1-85459-026-8
- Moscow Gold (1990). ISBN 978-1-85459-078-7
- ISBN 978-0-7011-3394-8
- ISBN 978-0-7011-3944-5
- Ugly Rumours (1998). ISBN 978-1-85459-426-6
- 1968: Marching in the Streets (1998). ISBN 978-0-7475-3763-2
- ISBN 978-1-906497-15-6
- ISBN 978-1-85984-834-0
- ISBN 978-1-85984-752-7
- Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity (2002). ISBN 978-1-85984-679-7
- ISBN 978-1-85984-583-7
- Street-Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties (2005). ISBN 978-1-84467-029-1
- Speaking of Empire and Resistance: Conversations with Tariq Ali (2005). ISBN 978-1-56584-954-9
- ISBN 978-1-84467-545-6
- Conversations with ISBN 978-1-905422-04-3
- A Sultan in Palermo (2005; featuring ISBN 978-1-84467-025-3
- The Leopard and the Fox (2006). ISBN 978-1-905422-29-6
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope (2006) ISBN 978-1-84467-248-6
- A Banker for All Seasons: Bank of Crooks and Cheats Incorporated (2007). ISBN 978-1-905422-65-4
- The assassination: Who Killed Indira G? (2008). ISBN 978-1-905422-85-2
- ISBN 978-1-84737-355-7
- The Protocols of the Elders of Sodom: and other Essays (2009). ISBN 978-1-84467-367-4
- The Idea of Communism (non-fiction) (2009). ISBN 978-1-906497-26-2
- Night of the Golden Butterfly (2010; 5th in the "Islam Quintet"). ISBN 978-1-84467-611-8
- ISBN 978-1-84467-449-7
- On History: Tariq Ali and ISBN 978-1-60846-149-3
- ISBN 1-844-67735-4
- ISBN 978-1-78478-262-7
- Permanent Counter Revolution (2016). ISBN 978-1-78478-432-4
- ISBN 978-1-78663-110-7
- ISBN 978-1-78873-577-3
See also
References
- ^ Stade, George (2009). Encyclopedia of British Writers, 1800 to the Present Volume 2. p. 12.
- ^ Tariq Ali Biography Archived 1 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine, Contemporary Writers, accessed 31 October 2006
- ^ "As 250 Killed in Clashes Near Afghan Border, British-Pakistani Author Tariq Ali on Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the Ongoing U.S. Role in Regional Turmoil Archived 14 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine", Democracy Now!, 10 October 2007. Retrieved 11 October 2007.
- ^ "Tariq Ali". British Council of Literature. Retrieved 24 February 2014.
- ^ "Archives". tariqali.org. Tariq Ali. Archived from the original on 20 April 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
- ^ a b c Campbell, James (8 May 2010). "A life in writing: Tariq Ali". The Guardian.
- ^ Davies, Hunter (22 February 1994). "The Hunter Davies Interview: For you, Tariq Ali, the revolution is over: The Sixties Marxist bogeyman has matured into a minor media mogul... and he has managed to acquire a sense of humour". The Independent.
- ^ a b c Kumar, Sashi (9 August 2013). "In conversation with Tariq Ali: The New World Disorder". Frontline. Archived from the original on 28 July 2013. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
- ^ Rehman, I.A. (15 June 2017). "An outstanding journalist". Dawn. Karachi. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
- ^ a b Mohsin, Jugnu (27 March 2015). "Tahira Mazhar Ali Khan, 1925–2015". The Friday Times. Lahore. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
- ^ "Tariq Ali profile". BBC Four Documentary article. Archived from the original on 17 September 2007. Retrieved 26 April 2007.
- ^ Race Today Collective (1988). Race Today Review 1988: vol 18 no 2. Darcus Howe Collective. Race Today Collective.
- ^ "The Beatles call for the legalisation of marijuana". 24 July 1967. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
- ^ Ali, Tariq (May–June 2011). "Leaving Shabazz". New Left Review. II (69).
- ^ Ali, Tariq (22 March 2008). "Where has all the rage gone?". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 January 2011.
- ^ "1968, Forty Years Later: Tariq Ali Looks Back on a Pivotal Year in the Global Struggle for Social Justice". Democracynow.org. 29 May 2008. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
- ^ "From Vietnam To Iraq To Bolivia-Tariq Ali". YouTube. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
- ^ "Tariq Ali: Why I'm Joining the Labour Party (December 1981)". www.marxists.org.
- ^ Ali, Tariq (March–April 1999). "Springtime for NATO". New Left Review. I (234).
- ^ Williams, Ian (September 2000). "More Agitprop than reasoned argument". Bosnian Institute UK. Archived from the original on 2 March 2019. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
- ^ "Decline and fall of the puppetmasters | Nick Cohen". The Guardian. 16 July 2011. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
- ISBN 978-0-522-85907-2. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
- ^ Dal Cassian (4 June 2011). "Why Noam Chomsky, Tariq Ali, Arundhati Roy and their co-thinkers should apologise over Mladic and Srebrenica: | Workers' Liberty". workersliberty.org. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
- ^ "Oliver Stone, Tariq Ali and Mark Weisbrot respond to NY Times attack on South of the Border " Verso UK's Blog". Versouk.wordpress.com. 30 June 2010. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
- ^ Hazou, Christopher Hazou, "Journalism and jingoism: Ownership and gullibility are two recurring problems for the Western press, says author and activist Tariq Ali", Montreal Mirror. Archives: 27 September – 3 October 2007, Vol. 23, No. 15.
- ISBN 0-306-81270-3.
- ^ "Tariq Ali | BFI". Archived from the original on 18 August 2016.
- ^ Ali, Tariq (13 March 2014). "Scots, undo this union of rogues. Independence is the only way to fulfil your potential". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 March 2014.
- ^ "Lateline – 31/05/2016: Interview: Tariq Ali, British writer and commentator". Abc.net.au. 31 May 2016. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
- ^ Evans, Rob (11 November 2020). "Tariq Ali spied on by at least 14 undercover officers, inquiry hears". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
- ^ Shourin Roy (19 July 2007). "The Leopard and the Fox: Our new season begins". Alter Ego Blog. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 20 August 2007.
- ^ "Cast & Credits". South of the Border. Archived from the original on 23 August 2012. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
- ^ "The Hunter Davies Interview: For you, Tariq Ali, the revolution is over: The Sixties Marxist bogeyman has matured into a minor media mogul . . . and he has managed to acquire a sense of humour". The Independent. 22 February 1994. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
- ^ Tariq Ali (13 February 2006). "This is the real outrage". The Guardian. Guardian News & Media Limited. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
I am an atheist and do not know the meaning of the "religious pain" that is felt by believers of every case when what they believe in is insulted.
External links
- Tariq Ali Official webpage Archived 9 August 2018 at the Wayback Machine
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Tariq Ali at the international literature festival berlin Archived 22 February 2017 at the Wayback Machine
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