In Conversation with Tariq Ali | Full Talk | Tariq Ali
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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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