Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties
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 protest movement.

This edition includes a new introduction, as well as the famous interview conducted by Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn with John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1971.
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Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties
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 protest movement.

This edition includes a new introduction, as well as the famous interview conducted by Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn with John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1971.
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Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties

Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties

by Tariq Ali
Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties

Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties

by Tariq Ali

Overview

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 protest movement.

This edition includes a new introduction, as well as the famous interview conducted by Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn with John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1971.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781804297131
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 11/12/2024
Pages: 416
Product dimensions: 5.07(w) x 7.78(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Tariq Ali is a writer and filmmaker. He has written more than a dozen books on world history and politics—including Pirates of the Caribbean, Bush in Babylon, The Clash of Fundamentalisms and The Obama Syndrome—as well as five novels in his Islam Quintet series and scripts for the stage and screen. He is an editor of the New Left Review and lives in London.

Table of Contents

Preface to the New Edition ix

Introduction: Chronicles From Then and Now 1

1 Preludes 61

2 First Thoughts on Britain: 1963-65 93

3 Revolution and Counter-Revolution; 1965-67 125

4 From Prague to Hanoi: Jan-Feb 1967 148

5 Changing Times: 1967 183

6 The Last Year in the Life of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara: 1967 204

7 The Year: 1968 236

8 The Year 1968: The French Revolution 267

9 The Year 1968: The New Revolutionaries 290

10 Much Maligned Movements: 1969-75 310

11 Heretics and Renegades 340

An Exchange of Letters Between John Hoyland and John Lennon in the Black Dwarf 356

'Power to the People!' John Lennon and Yoko Ono Talk to Robin Blackburn and Tariq Ali 361

Index 383

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