- Publisher: Verso
- Year: 2018
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 416pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 210x140mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.6kg
- ISBN: 9781786636003
- Product code: 519660
Street Fighting Years
An Autobiography of the Sixties
Tariq Ali New Paperback Illustrated
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The radical writer and activist Tariq Ali looks back over a tumultuous decade in British and global politics. His account of his own campaigning and journalism, first published in 1987, takes in the great issues of the day – the Vietnam War, the Prague Spring and the 1968 student protests in Paris – and his encounters with Malcolm X, Marlon Brando, Henry Kissinger, Bertrand Russell, John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
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Tariq Ali revisits his formative years as a young radical. Reissued for the 1968 anniversary, Street-Fighting Years captures the mood and energy of the era of hope and passion as Ali tracks the growing significance of the nascent protest movement.
Through his own story, he recounts a counter history of the 60s rocked by the effects of the Vietnam war, the aftermath of the revolutionary insurgencies led by Che Guevara, the brutal suppression of the Prague Spring and the student protests on the streets of Europe and America. 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.
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.
Through his own story, he recounts a counter history of the 60s rocked by the effects of the Vietnam war, the aftermath of the revolutionary insurgencies led by Che Guevara, the brutal suppression of the Prague Spring and the student protests on the streets of Europe and America. 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.
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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The radical writer and activist Tariq Ali looks back over a tumultuous decade in British and global politics. His account of his own campaigning and journalism, first published in 1987, takes in the great issues of the day – the Vietnam War, the Prague Spring and the 1968 student protests in Paris – and his encounters with Malcolm X, Marlon Brando, Henry Kissinger, Bertrand Russell, John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
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