On July 7th, the murderous mayhem that Blair’s war has sown in Iraq came home to London in a devastating series of suicide bombings. Two weeks later, with apparent impunity, security forces shot dead a young Brazilian electrician on his way to work.

Rough Music is Tariq Ali’s white-hot response to these events.

He lays bare the vengeful platitudes of Blair’s war on civil liberties, mounts a scorching attack on the cosy falsehoods of the government’s ‘consensus’ on what the threat amounts to and how to respond, and denounces the corruption of the political-media bubble which allows it to go unchallenged. Finally, invoking the perseverance and integrity of the great dissenters of the past, he calls for political resistance, within parliament and without.

Praise for Bush in Babylon:

“Ali’s latest is an excellent primer on how our hard Left sees their hard Right (‘capitalist witch doctors’) and he’s been around long enough not to be mistaken for a hysterical student.” — The Times

Tariq Ali is a writer, and filmmaker, long time political activist and campaigner, very much in demand as a commentator on the current situation in the Middle East. He has written over a dozen books on world history and politics including the recent bestsellers, The Clash of Fundamentalisms and Bush in Babylon, five novels, and scripts for both stage and screen. The first novel of the Islam Quintet, Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree, was awarded the Archbishop San Clemente del Instituto Rosalia de Castro Prize for Best Foreign Language Fiction published in Spain in 1994 and, like the Book of Saladin, has been translated into several languages.

112 pages

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ISBN-13: 9781 84467 545 6
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