During the late Seventies and Eighties a new logo began to jostle for space with the more traditional landmarks on high streets throughout Britain. It was the badge of a remarkable Third World Bank...
The idea of communism, argues Ali, was simple and noble - the creation of a society based on the principle of 'from each according to his ability, to each according to his need' rather than a system b
These provocative essays explore the links between literature, history and politics, through an examination of the work of Cervantes, Tolstoy, Proust, Musil, Roth, Platonov, Soltzhenitsyn, Grossman,
In 1985, the BBC commissioned Tariq Ali to write a three-part series on the circumstances leading to the overthrow, trial and execution of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the first elected Prime Minister of Paki
A study of the revolutionary process throughout Latin America as a challenge to the neoliberal consensus and American foreign policy focuses on the radical social democratic reforms of Venezuala's Hug
Pakistan 1968: the history of a revolutionThe story of what happened in 1968 in Pakistan is often forgotten, but is proof of a global revolutionary moment. In that year, following years of tumult, a r
On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Tariq Ali paints an illuminating portrait of LeninAt the end of his life, Lenin wrote ‘we didn’t know everything’, acknowledging the dilemmas he faced on th
