Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali
Tariq Ali (born 21 October 1943) is an English-Pakistani writer, journalist, and filmmaker. He is a member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review and Sin Permiso, and contributes to The Guardian, Counter Punch, and the London Review of Books. He is the author of several books, including Pakistan: Military Rule or People's Power (1970), Can Pakistan Survive? The Death of a State (1991), Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity (2002), Bush in Babylon (2003), Conversations with Edward Said (2005), Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope (2006), A Banker for All Seasons (2007), The Duel (2008) and The Obama Syndrome (2010).
Marx once wrote that history weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living. Perhaps he did not know how right he would be. Even twenty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, activists a...
Drawing on first-hand experience of Venezuela and meetings with Chávez, Tariq Ali shows how Chávez's views have polarized Latin America and examines the hostility directed against his administrat...

Patrick Cockburn
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C. H. E. Philpin
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Randa Jarrar
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Paul Le Blanc
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S. Irfan Habib
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Ravi Kumar
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Yogesh Maitreya
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Fidel Castro
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Sergio Chejfec
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Patricia Jeffery
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Henry Veltmeyer
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Sayyid Ahmad Khan
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Gautam Bhatia
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Jibanananda Das
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Anand Chakravarti
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