One in 70 children are admitted to paediatric intensive care (PIC) at some time during childhood. Most paediatric junior doctors will rotate through PIC, and will be involved in organising acute intensive care for critically ill children. The range of children and their illnesses going through PIC i[...]

In working together on two challenging new documentaries--"South of the Border" and the forthcoming "The Untold History of the United States" series for Showtime--filmmaker Oliver Stone engaged with author and filmmaker Tariq Ali in a probing, hard-hitting conversation on
the politics of history.[...]

What can we do in the twilight of democracy? What is the point of elections when the result is always the same? A victory for the Extreme Centre. Since 1989, politics has been replaced by a contest between who can best serve the needs of the market, fringed by unstable populist movements. The same [...]

The Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela has brought Hugo Chavez to world attention as the foremost challenger of the neoliberal consensus and American foreign policy. Drawing on first-hand experience of Venezuela and meetings with Chavez, Tariq Ali shows how Chavez's views have polarized Latin Americ[...]

"Night of the Golden Butterfly" concludes the "Islam Quintet" - Tariq Ali's much lauded series of historical novels, translated into more than a dozen languages, that has been twenty years in the writing. Completing an epic panorama that began in fifteenth-century Moorish Spain, the latest novel mov[...]

Set in the twelfth century Cairo, Damascus and Jerusalem, this is the fictional memoir of Saladin the Kurdish liberator of Jerusalem. It is the second in the series of historical novels depicting the confrontation between Islam and Christian civilisations.[...]

The aerial attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, a global spectacle of unprecedented dimensions, generated an enormous volume of commentary. The inviolability of the American mainland, breached for the first time since 1812, led to extravagant proclamations by the pundits. It was a new[...]

November 9, 2009, will mark twenty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the monumental event that signalled the beginning of the end of Communism in the former Soviet Union. Why was this collapse of Communism considered final, while the many failures of capitalism are considered temporary and ep[...]

I Pakistan mellan diktatur och korruption berättar Tariq Ali personligt och insiktsfullt landets moderna historia. Pakistan, som är ett av världens folkrikaste land, bildades 1947 i samband med delningen av Brittiska Indien. Det har sedan dess växelvis styrts av militärdiktaturer oc[...]

Tariq Ali följer den kommunistiska rörelsen från de tankar som Marx och Engels formulerade i Det kommunistiska partiets manifest över Pariskommunen 1871 och Oktoberrevolutionen 1917 vidare till dagens situation, tjugo år efter Sovjetunionens upplösning. Han nöjer sig inte med att konstatera k[...]

In this timely reissue of this essential collection, Ralph Miliband sets out the domain of the struggle. From conflicts within the state to the world capitalist system, Miliband's acute insight and clarity of argument makes this a key text in postwar socialist thought. The collection includes essent[...]

Across the ages and in every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest-and this unrivalled compendium brings many of them together. From primitive communism in Ancient Greece and Persia, and the Hundred Schools of Thought in Ancient China, via the dis[...]