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You Can't Please All: Memoirs 1980-2024

You Can't Please All: Memoirs 1980-2024


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This volume covers four decades: The Eighties and Nineties when the author was no longer engaged in active politics as a party-member of any sort, but had moved sideways to politico-cultural interventions: Setting up Bandung Productions (with Darcus Howe) and launching the Bandung File, a unique current affairs show on Channel Four and subsequently Rear Window that mixed culture, politics and ideas. A mixture of anecdotes, reflections, jottings and story-telling the book covers defeats and the rise of new movements: social, political, anti-imperialist. His friendship with Hugo Chavez and trips to most of South America at the height of the Bolivarian wave The characters who appear in the book reflect life in the Eighties and beyond to the present day. There are pen-portraits of Edward Said, the intellectuals that founded and re-launched the New Left Review: Edward Thompson, Perry Anderson, Raphael Samuel as well as his time at Private Eye, the LRB and The Guardian.

Table of Contents:
Preface: 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

About the Author :
Tariq Ali has written more than two-dozen books on world history and politics—the most recent of which are The Extreme Centre, The Dilemmas of Lenin and The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan, Winston Churchill—as well as the novels of his Islam Quintet and scripts for the stage and screen. He is a long-standing member of the Editorial Committee of New Left Review and lives in London.

Review :
Ali remains an outlier and intellectual bomb-thrower; an urbane, Oxford-educated polemicist 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 Vintage Ali: literate rabble-rousing mixed with entertaining sniping, smart aperçus, and endless provocations. Entertaining, politically engaged ... a superbly bracing world tour. Fascinating reading ... an autobiography that matters. 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. A great read ... [Ali] has always got something insightful and interesting to say. [A] glimpse of the perils and benefits of being one of the world's best-known left-wing activists and intellectuals To escape ... with your principles mostly intact, your rage undimmed - that too is a kind of virtue, and its own monument. [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. Tariq Ali is in a league of his own as a public intellectual and Marxist political activist with special expertise in South Asia, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He has more than a knack for making his own fascination with a subject contagious... Ali has maintained a kind of immutable persona but a mind that can't stay still. Autobiography is a topic terrifically suited to his many gifts.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781804290903
  • Publisher: Verso Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Verso Books
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 816
  • Sub Title: Memoirs 1980-2024
  • Width: 153 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1804290904
  • Publisher Date: 05 Nov 2024
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 1094 gr


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