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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.
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
