“The US embassy is withdrawing from its central London fortress. If only America would quit other parts of the world it occupies….”

The west’s ‘good war’ in Afghanistan has turned bad, says Tariq Ali. A local solution, rather than a neocolonial one, is what’s needed

Democracy Now interviews Tariq Ali on the events of 1968 in Europe and around the world, and on their legacy today.

From the start New Labour was pledged to consolidate the Thatcherite paradigm rather than offer anything different, writes Tariq Ali.

Power can shape ‘truth’, but not forever, says Tariq Ali. That is the lesson he draws from New Labour’s crushing defeat in the recent elections.

The reasons for the West’s stalemate in Afghanistan lie in the nature of the occupation regime, and not in the lack of troops or obstruction by the Pakistan regime. Tariq Ali reports.

In 1968, fury at the Vietnam war sparked protests and uprisings across the world: from Paris and Prague to Mexico. Tariq Ali considers the legacy 40 years on.

Amy Goodman interviews Tariq Ali on recent violence on the Afghan-Pakistan border, and the continuing role of the US and UK in the regional turmoil.

A transcript of Tariq Ali‘s talk on the Afghanistan war, delivered to Media Workers Against the War in May.

Tariq Ali talks to Democracy Now! about Blair’s legacy, his fatal decision to follow the Bush administration into Iraq, and his likely successor Gordon Brown.

A true creature of the Washington Consensus, Blair was always loyal to the various occupants of the White House argues Tariq Ali

Tairq Ali makes the case for a withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Will the triumvirate – the US, the EU and the UN security council – try to keep the king in power?

Why have US, German and British forces in Afghanistan not been mobilised to save lives?

The disastrous occupation of Iraq requires the immediate withdrawal of all foreign troops.

A speech on the London bombings and the role that terrorism has played through the ages.

The text of a recent speech on Iraq, Vietnam, terrorism and resistance.

It is safe to assume that the cause of these bombs is the unstinting support given by New Labour and its prime minister to the US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

We must take the politics of the anti-war front into the electoral arena.