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You Can't Please All : Memoirs 1980-2024 by Tariq Ali (2024, Hardcover)

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PublisherVerso Books

ISBN-101804290904

ISBN-139781804290903

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Book TitleYou Can't Please All : Memoirs 1980-2024

Number of Pages816 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2024

TopicHistory & Theory, Social Activists, Political

GenrePolitical Science, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorTariq Ali

FormatHardcover

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Item Height2.2 in

Item Weight36.9 Oz

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width6.3 in

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LCCN2024-023130

Reviews"Ali remains an outlier and intellectual bomb-thrower; an urbane, Oxford-educated polemicist" -- Observer "Tariq Ali has not lost the passion and vim which made him a symbol of the spirit of '68 ... has not seen fit to join forces with the terminally cynical, or set up a graven god that can be accused of failing" --Christopher Hitchens "Vintage Ali: literate rabble-rousing mixed with entertaining sniping, smart aperçus, and endless provocations." -- Kirkus Reviews "Entertaining, politically engaged ... a superbly bracing world tour." --Stuart Jeffries, Guardian "Fascinating reading ... an autobiography that matters." --Chris Bambery, Counterfire "Ali can be refreshingly funny, gossipy and personable, just the activist you would want to sit down and have a chat with ... a great new year read." --Steven Andrew, Morning Star "A great read ... [Ali] has always got something insightful and interesting to say." --Dave Kellaway, Anti-Capitalist Resistance "[A] glimpse of the perils and benefits of being one of the world's best-known left-wing activists and intellectuals" --Andy Beckett, London Review of Books "To escape ... with your principles mostly intact, your rage undimmed - that too is a kind of virtue, and its own monument." --James Robins, Times Literary Supplement, "Ali remains an outlier and intellectual bomb-thrower; an urbane, Oxford-educated polemicist" -- Observer "Tariq Ali has not lost the passion and vim which made him a symbol of the spirit of '68 ... has not seen fit to join forces with the terminally cynical, or set up a graven god that can be accused of failing" --Christopher Hitchens "Vintage Ali: literate rabble-rousing mixed with entertaining sniping, smart aperçus, and endless provocations." -- Kirkus Reviews "Entertaining, politically engaged ... a superbly bracing world tour." --Guardian, Stuart Jeffries, "Ali remains an outlier and intellectual bomb-thrower; an urbane, Oxford-educated polemicist" -- Observer "Tariq Ali has not lost the passion and vim which made him a symbol of the spirit of '68 ... has not seen fit to join forces with the terminally cynical, or set up a graven god that can be accused of failing" --Christopher Hitchens "Vintage Ali: literate rabble-rousing mixed with entertaining sniping, smart aperçus, and endless provocations." -- Kirkus Reviews "Entertaining, politically engaged ... a superbly bracing world tour." --Stuart Jeffries, Guardian "Fascinating reading ... an autobiography that matters." --Chris Bambery, Counterfire "Ali can be refreshingly funny, gossipy and personable, just the activist you would want to sit down and have a chat with ... a great new year read." --Steven Andrew, Morning Star "A great read ... [Ali] has always got something insightful and interesting to say." --Dave Kellaway, Anti-Capitalist Resistance "[A] glimpse of the perils and benefits of being one of the world's best-known left-wing activists and intellectuals" --Andy Beckett, London Review of Books "To escape ... with your principles mostly intact, your rage undimmed - that too is a kind of virtue, and its own monument." --James Robins, Times Literary Supplement "[Ali's] range is extraordinary, moving from muck-raking exposures to Marxist theory; from boisterous satire to a sweet and gentle humour on his parents' romantic elopement ... a joy to read." --Sheila Rowbotham, Red Pepper, "Ali remains an outlier and intellectual bomb-thrower; an urbane, Oxford-educated polemicist" -- Observer "Tariq Ali has not lost the passion and vim which made him a symbol of the spirit of '68 ... has not seen fit to join forces with the terminally cynical, or set up a graven god that can be accused of failing" --Christopher Hitchens "Vintage Ali: literate rabble-rousing mixed with entertaining sniping, smart aperçus, and endless provocations." -- Kirkus Reviews, "Ali remains an outlier and intellectual bomb-thrower; an urbane, Oxford-educated polemicist" -- Observer "Tariq Ali has not lost the passion and vim which made him a symbol of the spirit of '68 ... has not seen fit to join forces with the terminally cynical, or set up a graven god that can be accused of failing" --Christopher Hitchens

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal823.914

Table Of ContentPreface: Being in the World Chronology Introduction: Spy Cops - On Being Spied On for Fifty Years BOOK I: THE END OF THE CENTURY Part 1: Before the Fall 1. Southall 1979 2. The Thatcher Consensus 3. Farewell to the Fourth 4. Off to India 5. CLR 6. 'We Have an Editor!' 7. Bandung File 8. Private Eye 9. Russia 10. Moscow Gold 11. Disrupting Heavenly Peace Part 2: Friends and Comrades 12. Jarman 13. Ho Chi Minh 14. At M-K's 15. Gott and the Guardian 16. Ernest Mandel 17. Saving the Review 18. Collateral Damage 19. Art of Spying 20. Renewals BOOK II: A FAMILY INTERLUDE The 'Noble and Warlike' Khattars of Wah Family Origins Family Life A Family in Jeopardy My Father Aftermath BOOK III: THE PROLONGED TWENTIETH CENTURY Part 1 A New Millennium Iraq at the Centre of the World So Was It Worth It? Mojitos in Pyongyang The Boulder Interview: Palestine and Israel (2004) Remembering Edward Said Was Hugo Chávez Murdered? Havana Diary (2005) Al Jazeera, Al Bolivar, Telesur Fellow Traveller: Oliver Stone In War There Is a Need for Translators Part 2 The Case against Tony Blair The Family Miliband The New Left Review at Fifty The Charlie Hebdo Massacre With Satyajit Ray The Bhuttos of Larkana A Painter of His Time Casteism Come Dancing The New Adventures of Don Quixote English Questions The End of Cricket? Kings and Queens BOOK IV: JOTTINGS Introduction: A Homage to Lu Xun Parchment Does Burn (1989) My Dinner with Mambety (1995) Better Red than Wed (1996) A Man without Instincts (1997) Marx on Suicide (2001) Al Jazeera (2002) In Tripoli (2006) Diyarbakir (2006) Return to Cochabamba (2007) Murder in the Family (2008) The Nobel War Prize (2010) Against the Extreme Centre (2011) Blitz Spirit: Alex Cockburn (2011) Pissing on Insurgents (2012) Lincoln in His Lover's Nightgown (2012) 'Indian Army Rape Us' (2013) Ships in the Night (2013) A Tear Gas Canister, Made in Brazil, Used in Turkey (2013) Gaza: A Disgrace to the World (2014) Benedict Anderson: An Irishman Abroad (2015) The Quintet (1992-2016) Mr Ford's Hacienda (2018) 'I'm Glad Edward Said Is Dead' (2022) Adieu Boris, Adieu (2022) Worstward Ho (2022) Celebrations (2023) A Missed Churchill Footnote (2023) Postscript: The Dying Palestinian Epilogue: The Ashes of Gaza Acknowledgements Index

SynopsisA new memoir from renowned political activist and author of Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties The revolutionary upsurge of 1968-1975 jump-hopped continents with ease but finally petered out. What happened after is the subject of You Can't Please All . Tariq Ali recounts a life committed to writing and cultural interventions. An eyewitness in Moscow to the fall of the Soviet Union, he was caught up in the intellectual excitement that had gripped the country. In Porto Alegre, Hugo Chávez invited him to visit Caracas, and the two men developed a striking friendship. Post-2001, as a founding member of the Stop the War Coalition, he became a fierce critic of the War on Terror, visiting many US cities with surprising regularity to engage in debate and discussion, inaugurating a new phase of political activism. Evident in his work is the integral part politics plays in his life. He is one of the most sought-after socialist and anti-imperialist public intellectuals on most continents. Underlying the narrative is a chain of anecdotes, reflections, jottings and storytelling. The book explores his work for the theatre and film, as well as his fiction, including the acclaimed Islam Quintet. There are pen portraits of friends and comrades such as Edward Said, Derek Jarman, Richard Ingrams, Benazir Bhutto, Mary-Kay Wilmers, and the intellectuals who founded and relaunched New Left Review: E. P. Thompson, Perry Anderson and Robin Blackburn. The book also contains a moving family portrait, describing how his parents met and lived during the early years of Pakistan., Sharpville, Bay of Pigs, Congo, Lumumba assassinated, Lambrakis assassinated, Laos, India provokes border war with China, Cuba blockade, Malcolm X assassinated, counter revolution in Indonesia, US invades Santa Domingo, Aden, Vietnam, Nkrumah overthrown, Guatemala, Vietnam, Ben Bella overthrown, UDI, Brazilier coup, Six day war, Che Guevara murdered, fascist takeover in Greece, Mexican massacre, Chicago, Biafra, military coup in Pakistan, British in Northern Ireland, Chad, Black Panther repression, Vietnam.

LC Classification NumberPR6051.L44Z46 2024