Archive of Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali on the situation in Kashmir

Tariq Ali on the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange earlier today.

Paratroopers in Kabul recently provoked controversy by filming themselves using an image of Jeremy Corbyn for target practice. In this piece, Tariq Ali placed the incident in the context of the establishment's fears of having Corbyn as Prime Minister.

The radical newspaper The Black Dwarf played a pivotal role in the British left in the late '60s. In this introduction to the magazine by Tariq Ali, it's editor for the first years of its existence, Ali discusses the influences behind the formation of the magazine and the role its played in the events of 1968 in Britain.

"First things first. Without Lenin there would have been no socialist revolution in 1917. Of this much we can be certain."