Writer and film-maker Tariq Ali was born in Lahore and studied politics and philosophy at Oxford University. He was a prominent leader of opposition to the war in Vietnam and more recently the war in Iraq. Today he writes regularly for a range of publications including The Guardian, The Nation, and the London Review of Books and is on the editorial board of New Left Review. He has written more than a dozen books as well as scripts for both stage and screen. He lives in London.
Tariq Ali, The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power. Simon & Schuster 2008.
Tariq Ali, Rough Music: Blair / Bombs / Baghdad / London / Terror. Verso 2005.
Tariq Ali & David Barsamian, Speaking of Empire and Resistance: Conversations with Tariq Ali. The New Press 2005.
Tariq Ali, Bush in Babylon: The Recolonisation of Iraq. Verso 2003.
Tariq Ali, The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity. Verso 2002.
Tariq Ali, Revolution from Above. Hutchinson 1988.
The Filthy Rich Election, London Review of Books, 20 June 2013
Flames of Resistance and Hope in Turkey Tariq Ali interviewed by Zeynep Bilgehan, CounterPunch, 18 June 2013
‘Syrian Conflict Is A War Targeting Iran', RT, 20 May 2013
"India Should be Close to China, Not the US" An Interview with Tariq Ali by Ajit Sahi, CounterPunch, 30 April 2013
Short Cuts, London Review of Books, 25 April 2013
Between Past and Future, New Left Review, March-April 2013
Decay and Ruin in Mrs. Thatcher's England, CounterPunch, 12 April 2013
Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013): Tariq Ali on Late British PM's Legacy From Austerity to Apartheid, Democracy Now! 8 April 2013
Tariq Ali on the Obama Syndrome, ZVideo, 26 March 2013
Hugo Chávez and me, The Guardian, 6 March 2013
What the Beatles Missed About Ravi Shankar, Counterpunch, 14 December 2012
BBC reform: cut management and give more freedom to programme-makers, The Guardian, 11 November 2012
Tariq Ali: European Union Awarded Nobel Peace Prize Despite Ties To NATO, Crippling Austerity Cuts, Democracy Now! 12 October 2012
The Uprising in Syria, CounterPunch, 12 September 2012
'Marxism is not a belief system, it's a method of looking at things' Tariq Ali interviewed by Ali Madeeh Hashmi, Viewpoint, 26 Juy 2012
What is Really Happening in Syria? ZVideo, 18 July 2012
Julian Assange interviews Noam Chomsky and Tariq Ali, RT, 26 June 2012
The Rotten Heartf Europe, ZVideo, 3 June 2012
Radio Tahrir (Part I): Tariq Ali On the Arab Awakening by Lieven De Cauter, Foreign Policy in Focus, 29 April 2012
A Congregation of Pain by Tariq Ali and Bharat Bhushan, ZNet, 15 April 2012
The Disgusting Attacks on Gunter Grass, CounterPunch, 10 April 2012
Born Again! George Galloway Stuns Labor, Shakes Up Britain, CounterPunch, 30 March 2012
The Not So Lone Gunman, LRB Blog, 12 March 2012
Obama's only way out of Afghanistan is to talk, The Guardian, 20 January 2012
Diary, ZNet, 18 January 2012
Arab League Pathetic, Works as West's NGO, ZSpace, 2 January 2012
What next for Pakistan's President Zardari?, The Guardian/Comment is free, 7 December 2011
Why did Nato attack Pakistan?, LRB blog, 28 November 2011
What Should Perhaps be Done, ZNet, 27 October 2011
Tariq Ali's Hazlitt Society annual lecture: ‘Is Capitalism A Threat to Democracy?' tariqali.org, 26 September 2011
America's selective vigilantism will make as many enemies as friends, The Guardian/Comment is free, 6 September 2011
Pakistan at 64, CounterPunch, 15 August 2011
A few questions for the Muslim brothers in Tahrir Square on 29 July, The Guardian, 31 July 2011
The Arab Intifada and U.S. Power, ZNet, 28 July 2011
Murdoch: Will Anything Really Change? CounterPunch, 20 July 2011
AmPak Relations: Scenes From a Marriage, CounterPunch, 14 July 2011
One on One: Tariq Ali with Riz Khan, Al Jazeera, 16 June 2011
Andropov Was Right, ZNet, 11 June 2011
From Cairo to Madison, Verso Books, 19 May 2011
The Perils Of Islamophobia, ZNet, 12 May 2011
Killing the Golden Goose, CounterPunch, 6 May 2011
Did Pakistani Gov't Know Where Osama bin Laden Was Hiding? Democracy Now! 2 May 2011
Who told them where he was?, London Review of Books, 2 May 2011
Who will reshape the Arab world: its people, or the US? The Guardian, 29 April 2011
Libya is another case of selective vigilantism by the west, The Guardian/Comment is free, 29 March 2011
TVNZ Interview Transcript of Paul Holmes Q + A interview with Tariq Ali, ZNet, 21 March 2011
Tariq Ali meets Sarfraz Manzoor: “There is no doubt we are at a turning point” by Sarah Shin, The Guardian, 8 March 2011
Haiti needs the world's support by Noam Chomsky, Tariq Ali, Slavoj Žižek et al, The Guardian, 2 March 2011
This is an Arab 1848. But US hegemony is only dented, The Guardian, 22 February 2011
“EEUU no quería un nuevo Tiananmen en la plaza Tahrir”, Público, 21 de febrero de 2011
Defend Wikileaks And Julian Assange, ZNet, 13 February 2011
Solidarity With The Egyptian People, ZNet, 8 February 2011
Pakistan: Can It Get Worse? Yes!, CounterPunch, 7 February 2011
Plan B for a Post-Mubarak Egypt?, MR Zine, 5 February 2011
An Arab 1848: Despots Totter and Fall, CounterPunch, 2 February 2011
Bernard-Henri Lévy Indicted! CounterPunch, 27 January 2011
Total Capitulation, London Review of Books, 24 January 2011
What is Imperialism?, ZNet, 19 January 2011
What happened next? Student protests, The Guardian/Comment is free, 27 December 2010
Does Liu Xiaobo Really Deserve the Peace Prize?, CounterPunch, 13 December 2010
SOAS Occupation, ZNet, 8 December 2010
“Imperialism with a Human Face”: Tariq Ali discusses Barack Obama & Tony Blair for French media, ZNet, 22 November 2010
How Obama surrendered at home and waged war abroad, The Daily Telegraph, 30 October 2010
Obama hope was all hype, The Guardian/Comment is free, 28 October 2010
They can't buy her silence, London Review of Books Blog, 26 October 2010
Red Hot France, Tepid Britain, ZNet, 21 October 2010
Australia Should Leave Afghan War, ZNet, 10 October 2010
Palestine & President Obama, ZNet, 7 October 2010
New face, same imperialism, The Age, 6 October 2010
Tariq Ali on "The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad", Democracy Now! 21 September 2010
Holbrooke Says World Cannot Foot Entire Bill for Pakistan Flood Recovery as US Spends Billions on Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan & Pakistan, Democracy Now! 21 September 2010
Selling Off Af-Pak, CounterPunch, 10 September 2010
Pakistan: sadly, there's only one Imran Khan, The Guardian, 30 August 2010
Floods for Pakistan; Floods of Money For its Leader, CounterPunch, 27 August 2010
It's no secret what Pakistan's been doing with the Taliban, The Guardian, 30 July 2010
Oliver Stone and Tariq Ali: brothers in arms, The Guardian, 26 July 2010
Islamophobia exposed, Socialist Worker, 10 July 2010
Response to Attack From the New York Times' Larry Rohter by Oliver Stone, Mark Weisbrot and Tariq Ali, CommonDreams.org, 28 June 2010
The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives by Gilbert Achcar, The Guardian, 26 June 2010
Freedom Flotilla Massacre, ZNet, 3 June 2010
Tariq Ali on Britain's Political Deadlock, Gordon Brown's Resignation and Pakistan's Role in the Times Square Bombing Attempt, Democracy Now! 11 May 2010
“The People of Greece Are Fighting for the Whole of Europe”: Tariq Ali and Mark Weisbrot Discuss Greece's Economic Crisis and Popular Uprising, Democracy Now! 11 May 2010
A life in writing: Tariq Ali by James Campbell, The Guardian, 8 May 2010
Unhappy Yemen, London Review of Books, 25 March 2010
Una visión roja de Oriente y Occidente por Carlos Prieto, Público, 25 de marzo de 2010
The Imprisonment of Jafar Panahi, London Review of Books, 18 March 2010
The Assault on Illhem, CounterPunch, 25 February 2010
John Lennon's power for the people, The Guardian/Comment is free, 2 February 2010
President of cant, New Left Review, January-February 2010
Remembering Daniel Bensaîd, CounterPunch, 15 January 2010
From Reconquista to Recolonization, CounterPunch, 6 January 2010
Short Cuts in Afghanistan, CounterPunch, 13 November 2009
Interview with Tariq Ali:"We Suffer from the Worst of Every World" by Raza Naeem, MR Zine, 7 November 2009
The life and death of Trotsky, The Guardian, 31 October 2009
Farce in Kabul, Tragedy in Pakistan, CounterPunch, 20 October 2009
Ahmed Rashid's War, CounterPunch, 9 October 2009
As US Continues Afghan, Iraq Occupations and Quashes Accountability for Gaza Assault, Critics Decry Awarding of Nobel Peace Prize to Obama, Democracy Now! 9 October 2009
The Afghan Folly, CounterPunch, 22 September 2009
Tariq Ali: "Nobody in Washington Knows What the War Aim Is" by Gudrun Harrer, MR Zine, 13 May 2009
Tariq Ali on a People's Victory in Pakistan, Obama's Escalation of Afghanistan War, and 6 Years of US Occupation in Iraq, Democracy Now! 19 March 2009
Capitalism's Deadly Logic, The Nation, 4 March 2009
Pakistan's drift into the hands of extremists, The Guardian/Comment is free, 3 March 2009
Tariq Ali on Obama: Imperialism with a human face by Derrick O'Keefe, Rabble, 16 February 2009
From the ashes of Gaza, The Guardian/Comment is free, 30 September 2008
Diary, London Review of Books, 18 December 2008
Brown's al-Qaida blame game, The Guardian, 15 December 2008
The Assault on Mumbai, CounterPunch, 27 November 2008
Operation Enduring Disaster, TomDispatch.com, 16 November 2008
Great expectations, The Guardian/Comment is free, 5 November 2008
Zardari Bans My Books, CounterPunch, 20 October 2008
Tales from the thinktank by Mohammed Hanif, The Guardian, 11 October 2008
Goodbye to Grosvenor Square, The Guardian/Comment is free, 3 October 2008
Dueling partners: Pakistan and America Tariq Ali interviewed by Wahajat Ali, Altmuslim, 30 September 2008
Casualties of another war, The Guardian, 23 September 2008
Has the U.S. Invasion of Pakistan Begun? TomDispatch.com, 16 September 2008
Asif Ali Zardari: the godfather as president, The Guardian/Comment is free, 7 September 2008
Musharraf was rambling and impervious to tormented cries from his people, The Independent, 19 August 2008
Musharraf will not go gentle into that golf course, The Independent on Sunday, 17 August 2008
Musharraf will be gone in days, The Guardian/Comment is free, 14 August 2008
Nato's lost cause, The Guardian/Comment is free, 11 June 2008
1968: Tariq Ali Looks Back, Democracy Now! 31 May 2008
The great Hypocritic's oath, The First Post, 29 May 2008
Labour's time is up, The Guardian/Comment is free, 27 May 2008
New Labour is Dead, CounterPunch, 3/4 May 2008
Afghanistan: Mirage of the Good War, New Left Review, March-April 2008
Livingstone for peace, The Guardian/Comment is free, 15 April 2008
No War: The Movement That Has Dissolved Itself, ZNet, 31 March 2008
Where has all the rage gone?, The Guardian, 22 March 2008
An Interview with Tariq Ali: Neo-Liberalism and Protectorate States in the Post-Yugoslav Balkans by Global Balkans, CounterPunch, 26 February 2008
Why I Will Not Participate in the Turin Book Fair, CounterPunch, 5 February 2008
Et Tu, New York Times?, CounterPunch, 1 February 2008
Pakistan's Plight, The Nation, 3 January 2008
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My heart bleeds for Pakistan. It deserves better than this grotesque feudal charade |
The Independent, 31 December 2007 |
Pakistan in Turmoil after Benazir Bhutto's Assassination by Tariq Ali and Manan Ahmed |
Democracy Now! 28 December 2007 |
The Guardian, 28 December 2007 |
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CounterPunch, 24 December 2007 |
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"A Crude War Of Revenge": Tariq Ali on Afghanistan by Mike Whitney |
Information Clearing House, 29 November 2007 |
CounterPunch, 3 December 2007 |
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CounterPunch, 3/4 November 2007 |
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Afghanistan today: Six years of a war of terror Tariq Ali interviewed by Sherry Wolf |
Socialist Worker, 25 October 2007 |
CounterPunch, 24 October 2007 |
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CounterPunch, 20/21 October 2007 |
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Democracy Now! 10 October 2007 |
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The Guardian/Comment is free, 30 August 2007 |
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The Guardian, 10 August 2007 |
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CounterPunch, 10 July 2007 |
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| The Guardian, 17 May 2007 |
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Democracy Now! 11 May 2007 |
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The Guardian, 11 May 2007 |
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The Case for Withdrawal from Afghanistan: The Khyber Impasse |
CounterPunch, 27 February 2007 |
Official politics in the west ignores public opinion at will |
The Guardian, 27 February 2007 |
London Review of Books, 4 January 2007 |
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CounterPunch, 30/31 December 2006 |
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Guardian Unlimited, 20 December 2006 |
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The Guardian, 20 December 2006 |
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CounterPunch, 30 November 2006 |
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Interview: Tariq Ali by Talat Ahmed |
Socialist Review, 16 November 2006 |
The Guardian, 9 November 2006 |
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The challenge to the empire by Tariq Ali and Anthony Arnove |
Socialist Worker, 20 October 2006 |
CounterPunch, 16/17 September 2006 |
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The Guardian, 9 September 2006 |
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Tariq Ali: Toward A New Radical Politics by Paige Austin |
MotherJones, 9 August 2006 |
The Guardian, 3 July 2006 |
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The Guardian, 20 July 2006 |
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This high-octane rocket-rattling against Tehran is unlikely to succeed |
The Guardian, 3 May 2006 |
Indonesia's Greatest Writer: On the Death of Pramoedya Ananta Toer |
CounterPunch, 2 May 2006 |
The Guardian, 25 April 2006 |
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New Left Review 38, March-April 2006 |
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Islam and the Left Tariq Ali interviewed by Alex De Jong and Paul Mepschen |
International Viewpoint, 2 April 2006 |
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Imperial Hubris An interview with Tariq Ali by David Barsamian |
Z Magazine, March 2006 |
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The new furies by Tom Nairn |
New Left Review, January-February 2006 |
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The Guardian, 13 February 2006 |
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An Interview with Tariq Ali: "The Real Threat is from Imperial Fundamentalism" by Marcus Dam |
CounterPunch, 30 January 2006 |
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The Guardian, 16 January 2006 |
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CounterPunch, 9 November 2005 |
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The Guardian, 22 October 2005 |
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CounterPunch, 11 October 2005 |
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The Guardian, 23 September 2005 |
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CounterPunch, 12 August 2005 |
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Socialist Review, 24 July 2005 |
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CounterPunch, 23/24 July 2005 |
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CounterPunch, 19 July 2005 |
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Socialist Worker, 18 July 2005 |
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The Guardian, 8 July 2005 |
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CounterPunch, 20 June 2005 |
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A Conversation With Tariq Ali (part 1) by Charles Demers |
Seven Oaks, 5 May 2005 |
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The Guardian, 23 April 2005 |
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The Guardian, 26 March 2005 |
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Socialist Worker, 17 March 2005 |
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The Guardian, 7 February 2005 |
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The Guardian, 12 August 2004 |
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ZNet, 3 July 2004 (This article is a premium sent to Sustainer Donors of Z/ZNet. To learn more, consult ZNet at http://www.zmag.org) |
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The Guardian, 14 February 2004 |
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ZNet, 17 December 2003 |
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The Guardian, 13 December 2003 |
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The Guardian, 3 November 2003 |
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Occupation Fuels Resistance An Interview |
Socialist Worker, 24 October 2003 |
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The Sydney Morning Herald, 26 August 2003 |
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New Left Review 21, May-June 2003 |
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The Guardian, 24 May 2003 |
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The Guardian, 21 February 2003 |