Tariq Ali on... his advice to Imran Khan

He was friends with Malcolm X and Yoko Ono, debated the Vietnam War with Kissinger, and allegedly inspired songs by the Rolling Stones and John Lennon. This is your chance to hear Tariq Ali's account of life, conviction and radical ideas.

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Activism has been a defining feature of Tariq Ali’s life. He grew up in a politically aware family; his father was a journalist for Pakistan Times newspaper, known for its left-learning sympathies, and his mother was an activist campaigning for workers’ rights and women rights, culminating in her forming the Democratic Women’s Association. He studied PPE in Oxford, an experience he labelled to be ‘liberating’ due to the abundance of available literature.

He began getting involved in political activism has an opponent of Pakistani military dictatorship, as well as the Vietnam War. He also befriended influential figures such as Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, John Lennon and Yoko Ono. He has been described as "the alleged inspiration" for the Rolling Stones' song "Street Fighting Man", recorded in 1968. John Lennon's "Power to the People" was inspired by an interview Lennon gave to Ali. His works include The Obama Syndrome, an investigation into how little of Bush’s legacy Obama reversed, as well as The Extreme Center: A Warning, a work criticising political elite and the neo-liberal world order.

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