Britain's leading radical delivers an eviscerating attack on the indistinguishable political elite of the UK
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.
Ali remains an outlier and intellectual bomb-thrower; an urbane,
Oxford-educated polemicist.
*Observer*
When he talks, the left listens.
*Guardian*
The typical Financial Times reader might find his bias so irksome
they cannot continue.
*Financial Times*
Lucid, eloquent, literary and painfully honest.
*Howard Zinn*
For years, left-wing critics have framed the debate. Angela Davis,
Ruthie Gilmore, Marc Mauer and, more recently, Michelle Alexander
gave us the terminology to speak about all this: the prison
industrial complex, abolition, non-reform reform and The New Jim
Crow . [Ali's theorized term 'extreme center'] provides us with a
new language to describe our problems.[O]ne of the key tasks of the
extreme center is to take center stage, to ensure that no
alternative seems either reasonable or possible.
*CounterPunch*
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