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Street-Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties

3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 · rating details · 101 ratings · 3 reviews
In this new edition of his memoirs, Tariq Ali revisits his formative years as a young radical. It is a story that takes us from Paris and Prague to Hanoi and Bolivia, encountering along the way Malcolm X, Bertrand Russell, Marlon Brando, Henry Kissinger, and Mick Jagger.

Ali captures the mood and energy of those years as he tracks the growing significance of the nascent pro ...more
Paperback , 403 pages
Published May 17th 2005 by Verso (first published 1987)
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Carlo
Jun 17, 2009 Carlo rated it 5 of 5 stars
Tariq Ali's memoir is a great read. Ali, an international socialist activist/intellectual, includes photos which add flavor: among journalists with Chou-en-Lai in Lahore, with Malcolm X in Oxford, visiting Regis Debray imprisoned in Bolivia, with the War Crimes Tribunal in Vietnam, speaking during 1969 insurrection in Pakistan, walking in the streets with May 68er Daniel Cohn-Bendit, celebrating Belgian Marxist Ernest Mandel, posing with Derek Jarman on the Wittgenstein set, dinner with Edward S ...more
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Oct 03, 2007 Obscuranta Hideypants rated it 1 of 5 stars
Recommends it for: those who live in the past
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I have a lot of trouble with Tariq Ali, and I think this book embopdies the majority of it- take some misguided protest-politics, mix in a bit of cult of personality and reminiscences about the Good Old Days and here we are. As has become his habit, Ali glorifies an era which, ultimately collapsed into the decadence of the eighties- driven in large part by ex radicals who were just along for the ride.

Protest politics is a dead end, something which needs to be studied, not glorified, and certain ...more
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Gus
Jun 14, 2007 Gus rated it 2 of 5 stars
Should have been great; unfortunately Ali writes like a tired political intellectual, and manages to drain nearly every bit of life, verve, and energy from one of the most exciting and dynamic periods in recent history.
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About Tariq Ali

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Tariq Ali (Punjabi, Urdu: طارق علی) (born 21 October 1943) is a British-Pakistani historian, novelist, filmmaker, political campaigner, and commentator. He is a member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review and Sin Permiso, and regularly contributes to The Guardian, CounterPunch, and the London Review of Books.

He is the author of several books, including Can Pakistan Survive? The Death ...more
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Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree (Islam Quintet, #1) The Book of Saladin (Islam Quintet, #2) The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity The Stone Woman (Islam Quintet, #3) The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power
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