“had everything to gain by playing up the threat of violence; it gave him a new unit under his personal command, and a budget of £500,000”
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Tariq Ali
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. He read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Exeter College, Oxford.
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culture · British political activist and writer (born 1943) · writer · journalist · historian · screenwriter · novelist · peace activist · politician · film director · producer · film producer · also Tariq Ali, Ali
Born 21 October 1943 · Q314787
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2026· 3 entries
“s execution from the Guardian reporter Richard Gott,”
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“If you torture me the whole night and I can speak Spanish in the morning I”
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2025· 1 entry
Democracy Now: Tariq Ali on Trump’s Embrace of Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza & Global Rise of the Far Right
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2024· 1 entry
Democracy Now: Tariq Ali on U.S. & U.K. Arming Israel’s War on Gaza, Pakistan Protests & Macron’s Embrace of the Right
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2020· 1 entry
Ali was a member of the Belmarsh Tribunal organised by Progressive International, investigating and evaluating the war crimes committed by the United States government in the 21st century
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2018· 1 entry
Career landmark: Member of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh (2018).
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2015· 1 entry
Career landmark: Participated in manifiesto el aa este a bueno (tournament / event).
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2009· 1 entry
Ali co-wrote with Mark Weisbrot the screenplay to the Oliver Stone documentary South of the Border
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2003· 2 entries
“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.”
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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
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1999· 1 entry
Ali strongly criticised NATO intervention in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the piece Springtime for NATO, and book Masters of the Universe
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1990· 1 entry
Ali published the satire Redemption, on the inability of the Trotskyists to handle the downfall of the Eastern bloc
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1985· 1 entry
Is about the last days of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
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1981· 1 entry
Ali quit the IMG and joined the Labour Party to support Tony Benn in his bid to become deputy leader of the Labour Party
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1968· 2 entries
In a demonstration against the Vietnam War
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Joined the International Marxist Group (IMG)
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1967· 2 entries
Ali was one of 64 prominent figures, including the Beatles, who signed a petition calling for the legalisation of marijuana
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Ali was in Camiri, Bolivia, not far from where Che Guevara was captured, to observe the trial of Régis Debray
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1965· 1 entry
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
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1943· 1 entry
Born 1943-10-21.
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