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    • Saturday, Jan 16, 2010
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      The French philosopher Daniel Bensaí¯d, who has died aged 63 of cancer, was one of the most gifted Marxist intellectuals of his generation. In 1968, together with Daniel Cohn-Bendit, he helped to form the Mouvement du 22 Mars (the 22 March Movem...
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    • Monday, Nov 16, 2009
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      It’s been a bad autumn for Nato in Afghanistan, with twin disasters on the political and military fronts. First, Kai Eide, the UN headman in Kabul, a well-meaning, but not very bright Norwegian, fell out with his deputy, Peter Galbraith, who as ...
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    • Tuesday, Oct 20, 2009
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      A few weeks ago the UN headman in Kabul, a woodenheaded Norwegian, decided that the recent Presidential elections were fine and Karzai was a legitimate ruler. His deputy, Peter Galbraith, the unofficial representative of the State Department, was ...
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    • Friday, Mar 20, 2009
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      After days of protests and several incidents of police brutality and the holding of key figures in preventive detention, the Pakistani government backed down and announced Monday the decision to reinstate the former chief justice, Iftikhar Chaudhr...
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      An Interview...
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    • Wednesday, Jan 21, 2009
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      A talk from January 8, 2009.
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    • Friday, Jan 02, 2009
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      The assault on Gaza, planned over six months and executed with perfect timing, was designed largely, as Neve Gordon has rightly observed, to help the incumbent parties triumph in the forthcoming Israeli elections. The dead Palestinians are little ...
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    • Friday, Nov 28, 2008
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      The terrorist assault on Mumbai’s five-star hotels was well planned, but did not require a great deal of logistic intelligence: all the targets were soft. The aim was to create mayhem by shining the spotlight on India and its problems and in that ...
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    • Sunday, Nov 16, 2008
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      Afghanistan has been almost continuously at war for 30 years, longer than both World Wars and the American war in Vietnam combined.
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    • Saturday, Nov 01, 2008
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      Tariq Ali on the U.S, destabilization of a crucial ally.
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    • Friday, Sep 19, 2008
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    • Tuesday, Sep 16, 2008
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      US military operations in Pakistan
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      Pakistani border troops allegedly foiled a US raid on Pakistani territory Monday. Details of the attack remain unclear, but according to an anonymous Pakistani intelligence official, the troops fired warning shots at American helicopters near the ...
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    • Tuesday, Aug 19, 2008
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      Pakistan's military dictators never go quietly. Field-Marshal Ayub was removed by a three-month long popular insurrection in March 1969. General Yahya Khan destroyed Pakistan before he departed in 1972. General Zia-ul-Haq (the worst of the lot) wa...
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    • Sunday, Jun 01, 2008
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      Looking back on a pivotal year in the global struggle for social justice...
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    • Sunday, May 04, 2008
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      New Labour has suffered a crushing defeat. The Blair project of promoting and implementing right-wing policies in the knowledge that traditional working class voters would remain solid died on 1 May 2008. Labour’s vote in the local elections in dr...
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    • Thursday, Apr 24, 2008
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      In 2002 Canada unveiled an official list of "terrorist" organizations, strikingly similar to that of the the US government. Today the Lebanese political movement Hizballah -- both the military and political wing -- is officially considered a "terr...
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    • Sunday, Mar 30, 2008
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      What has happened to the movement against the war that exploded in 2003, mobilizing millions of people in the entire West, to the point that the New York Times called it "the second superpower"?
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    • Thursday, Mar 27, 2008
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      In 1968, fury at the Vietnam war sparked protests and uprisings across the world: from Paris and Prague to Mexico...
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    • Wednesday, Feb 13, 2008
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      The New York Times' recently awoken sense of justice was dormant when Musharraf sacked the independent-minded judges, whose sin was ordering the release of the 'terrorists' imprisoned without proof or trial.
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    • Tuesday, Feb 05, 2008
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      When I agreed to participate in the Turin Book Fair, which I have done before, I had no idea that the 'guest of honour' was Israel and its 60th birthday. But this is also the 60th anniversary of what the Palestinian call the 'nakba' the disaster t...
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    • Saturday, Feb 02, 2008
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      A talk given at the University of California.
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    • Friday, Jan 25, 2008
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      Introduction to conference In Defense of Academic Freedom, Rockefeller Chapel, University of Chicago 12 October 2007
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    • Sunday, Jan 13, 2008
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      With Pervez Musharraf trying to cling to power whatever the cost, a farcical succession within the Pakistan People's Party, and continued US interference, Pakistan's dark night is far from over. A multidimensional charade is taking place in Pakist...
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    • Monday, Dec 31, 2007
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      Six hours before she was executed, Mary, Queen of Scots wrote to her brother-in-law, Henry III of France: "...As for my son, I commend him to you in so far as he deserves, for I cannot answer for him." The year was 1587.
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    • Sunday, Dec 30, 2007
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      Even those of us sharply critical of Benazir Bhutto's behaviour and policies - both while she was in office and more recently - are stunned and angered by her death. Indignation and fear stalk the country once again.
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    • Saturday, Dec 29, 2007
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      Hundreds and thousands of Pakistanis attend the funeral of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Pakistan’s political future remains unclear and riots erupted as news of Bhutto’s assassination spread across the country. Pakistani Preside...
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    • Friday, Nov 30, 2007
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      In 2002 Canada unveiled an official list of "terrorist" organizations, strikingly similar to that of the the US government. Today the Lebanese political movement Hizballah -- both the military and political wing -- is officially considered a "terr...
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    • Friday, Mar 20, 2009
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      After days of protests and several incidents of police brutality and the holding of key figures in preventive detention, the Pakistani government backed down and announced Monday the decision to reinstate the former chief justice, Iftikhar Chaudhr...
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    • Friday, Jan 02, 2009
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      The assault on Gaza, planned over six months and executed with perfect timing, was designed largely, as Neve Gordon has rightly observed, to help the incumbent parties triumph in the forthcoming Israeli elections. The dead Palestinians are little ...
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    • Friday, Nov 28, 2008
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      The terrorist assault on Mumbai’s five-star hotels was well planned, but did not require a great deal of logistic intelligence: all the targets were soft. The aim was to create mayhem by shining the spotlight on India and its problems and in that ...
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    • Tuesday, Sep 16, 2008
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      Pakistani border troops allegedly foiled a US raid on Pakistani territory Monday. Details of the attack remain unclear, but according to an anonymous Pakistani intelligence official, the troops fired warning shots at American helicopters near the ...
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    • Sunday, Jun 01, 2008
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      Looking back on a pivotal year in the global struggle for social justice...
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    • Thursday, Mar 27, 2008
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      In 1968, fury at the Vietnam war sparked protests and uprisings across the world: from Paris and Prague to Mexico...
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    • Tuesday, Feb 05, 2008
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      When I agreed to participate in the Turin Book Fair, which I have done before, I had no idea that the 'guest of honour' was Israel and its 60th birthday. But this is also the 60th anniversary of what the Palestinian call the 'nakba' the disaster t...
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    • Tuesday, Apr 24, 2007
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      Milan, April - Editor of the New Left Review, well-known essayist, author of a series of suggestive historic novels about Islam, Tariq Ali visited recently Italy to participate at the presentation of the Italian translation of his "Shadows of th...
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    • Sunday, Apr 02, 2006
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      The following interview with Tariq Ali was conducted by Alex De Jong and Paul Mepschen of the SAP (Dutch section of the Fourth International) at the Ernest Mandel symposium held in Brussels in November 2005. It was published in the March-April 200...
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    • Saturday, Apr 01, 2006
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      While we were opening the World Social Forum in Karachi last weekend with virtuoso performances of sufi music and speeches, the country's rulers were marking the centenary of the Muslim League [the party that created Pakistan and has ever since be...
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  • Bibliography

    • Pakistan: Military Rule or People's Power (1970)
    • The Coming British Revolution (1971)
    • 1968 and After: Inside the Revolution (1978)
    • Chile, Lessons of the Coup: Which Way to Workers Power (1978)
    • Trotsky for Beginners (1980)
    • Can Pakistan Survive?: The Death of a State (1983)
    • Who's Afraid of Margaret Thatcher? In Praise of Socialism (1984)
    • The Stalinist Legacy: Its Impact on 20th-Century World Politics (1984)
    • The Nehrus and the Gandhis: An Indian Dynasty (1985)
    • Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties (1987)
    • Revolution from Above: Soviet Union Now (1988)
    • Iranian Nights (1989)
    • Moscow Gold (1990)
    • Redemption (1990)
    • Can Pakistan Survive? The Death of a State (1991)
    • Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree (1992)
    • Necklaces (1992)
    • Ugly Rumours (1998)
    • 1968: Marching in the Streets (1998)
    • Fear of Mirrors (1998)
    • The Book of Saladin (Novel) (1998)
    • Trotsky for Beginners (1998)
    • The Stone Woman (2000)
    • Masters of the Universe: NATO's Balkan Crusade (2000)
    • Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity (2002)
    • Bush in Babylon (2003)
    • Street-Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties (2005)
    • Speaking of Empire and Resistance: Conversations with Tariq Ali (2005)
    • Rough Music: Blair, Bombs, Baghdad, London, Terror (2005)
    • Conversations with Edward Said (2005)
    • A Sultan in Palermo (2005, features Roger II of Sicily)
    • The Leopard and the Fox (2006)
    • Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope (2006)
    • A Banker for All Seasons: Bank of Crooks and Cheats Incorporated (2007)
    • The assassination: Who Killed Indira G? (2008)
    • The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power (2008)
    • The Protocols of the Elders of Sodom: and other Essays (2009)
    • The Idea of Communism (Non-fiction)(2009)

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