Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali: The Independence Lectures

Monday, 17 March 2014

Tariq Ali discusses the upcoming referendum on Scottish independence in Glasgow.

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Tariq Ali’s Don Quijote

Friday, 08 November 2013

Der tragische Held Don Quijote bricht auf zu neuen, hochaktuellen Abenteuern: von Piratenüberfällen vor der Küste Somalias über die Untiefen des Finanzsystems bis hin zu offenem Rassismus.

Das Schauspiel Essen zeigt eine anekdotische Adaption des Literaturklassikers mit prominenten Namen hinter den Kulissen: Inszenieren wird das Auftragswerk Jean-Claude Berutti, ein europaweit bekannter Regisseur. Der streitbare Tariq Ali hat das Stück verfasst; wie Don Quijote selbst ist der gebürtige Pakistaner ein Grenzgänger zwischen den Welten und ein Kämpfer gegen das Unrecht. Was kommt heraus, wenn das Schauspiel Essen internationale Theaterprominenz ins Revier holt? Ein Probenbesuch von West ART. Read more and watch a video here

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Tariq Alí visita a la CNTE: “Un país sin educación está condenado a morir”

Thursday, 24 October 2013

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Tariq Ali discusses Syria on Democracy Now!

Tuesday, 03 September 2013

Speaking on Demoncracy Now!, Tariq Ali discusses the Syrian situation with Steven Clemons.

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Tariq Ali in conversation with Owen Jones

Tuesday, 13 August 2013

Tariq Ali in conversation with Owen Jones at the Stoke Newington Literary Festival 2013

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From the archive

  • ‘Dr Tariq Ali on history and politics’
    April 18, 2011

    By Sarah-Jane Bradfield for Rhodes University, April 14  2011

    Writer, journalist, filmmaker and public intellectual Dr Tariq Ali addressed a capacity crowd at Eden Grove this week on the current uprisings in the Arab world and their links to contemporary history and the international community.

    In his talk entitled “The West, the Arab World and its Discontents”, Dr Ali, who was born in Lahore in 1943 and educated at Oxford, attributed the current uprisings in the Arab world to widespread dissatisfaction with the neo-liberal capitalism system.

    “This particular system punishes the poor and rewards the rich, who are blinded by greed. Things reached a breaking point and uprisings were triggered because of the inability of the elite to deal with the discontent and the refusal of the poor to continue living in dire conditions,” he said.

    To fully understand the current  …

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  • An Open Letter to Fausto Bertinotti on Afghanistan
    July 8, 2006

    An Open Letter to Fausto Bertinotti on Afghanistan by Tariq Ali, July 8, 2006

    Dear Fausto:

    I was surprised to hear that Rifondazione was preparing to vote in favour of keeping Italian troops in Afghanistan, for ‘humanitarian reasons’. I want to try and convince you that this would be a serious error, just as I argued in the last century with those on the left, who supported the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan.

    Big powers or surrogate states acting on their behalf have no right to occupy countries. The two big projects of the global neo-liberal order have been (1) to insist that the new capitalism is the ‘sole’ way of organising humankind from now till the planet implodes and (2) to disregard national sovereignty as a key to international relations in the name of ‘human rights’.

    A few weeks after  …

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