Tariq Ali

British political activist, writer, and historian · Pakistan · On the map · Activists · Born 1943 · age 83

Tariq Ali is a Pakistani-British political activist, writer, journalist, filmmaker, and public intellectual. He is a member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review and Sin Permiso, and contributes to The Guardian, CounterPunch, and the London Review of Books.

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2023“Every time the Palestinians have tried non-violence it has failed. [Since October 7] there's been a huge shift. Why? Because the resistance has resumed.”In their words9 November 2023Comments at a Stop the War Coalition event (9 November 2023), as cited in "Organisers of pro-Palestinian march praise Hamas 'resistance'",Read the whole statement

2022“What accounts, then, for his elevation to a cult figure?”In their wordsIntroduction, p. 5Read the whole statement

“... importance of the Falklands conflict in re-launching Churchill.”In their wordsIntroduction, p. 6Read the whole statement

2021“["Attacking Israeli right-wingers"] They have learnt nothing from what happened in to them in Europe. Nothing.”In their words22 May 2021From a speech at a demonstration organised by the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign (22 May 2021), as cited in "'Jews are Christ killers'Read the whole statement

2018“[On the funders of the Black Dwarf newspaper] The other one was an armed-struggle potter, a woman called Fiona Armour-Brown, who lived in Wales. She was slightly over the top.”In their words24 May 2018London Review of Books VolRead the whole statement

“The centre of the town was swathed in red flags. It was my first demonstration and one that I remember to this day.”In their wordsStreet fighting years, an autobiography of the sixties (2018)Read the whole statement

1943Born21 October 1943

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Ali, Imperial College, London, 2003

Ali presenting Spanish version of Conversations with Edward Said, Córdoba, 2010

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One could add that the manufactured love for Churchill, and the uses made of him, came to embody the nostalgia for an Empire that was long gone.
2022 · Introduction, p. 6, Own words
One of the worst criminals Europe ever produced was Leopold of Belgium, whose ownership of and brutalities in the Congo led to the deaths of several million Africans.
2022 · Introduction, p. 8, Own words
The Punjab and the North-West Frontier Province had been through a brutal process of ethnic cleansing.
2018 · Uprising in Pakistan: How to Bring Down a Dictatorship Verso Books (2018), Own words