I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption. But leaping from this to an anti-politics political party is usually little more than a thunderbolt from a blue sky

The opponents of the dictatorships in Egypt and Tunisia adopted a strategy of ‘refolution’: mass mobilizations that aim to compel the regime to reform itself, rather than to overthrow it

Tariq Ali argues that very little has changed since George W Bush left the White House – especially when it comes to foreign affairs

The late president of Venezuela will be remembered by his supporters as a lover of literature, a fiery speaker and a man who fought for his people and won

Mainstream politicians everywhere are the indentured servants of the financial system

Israel maintains it's conducting a successful operation, despite the rising number of civilian casualties in Gaza and amid international efforts to mediate peace

"To give the prize to the European Community is a complete and utter joke"

Syria has become an attritional civil war with mass atrocities carried out by both sides, while the masses retreated to an embittered passivity

The only way forward, in the interests of all Syrians, he says, is negotiation and discussion

Interview on the Arab drive for freedom, the West's structural crisis and new hope coming from Latin America

Talk on the evolution of the European Union, its role, and the crisis in Greece

Pakistanis are suffering because Obama, arrogantly, escalated the war in Afghanistan and Pakistan and thought he could get away with it

An interview on the Arab awakening the Indignados and the Occupy movement

Interview on the current conditions in Pakistan and a variety of other topics

Those to whom evil is done, do evil in return to others. So why no sympathy for the Palestinians?

UK politics has been governed by Thatcherism for decades. Galloway's triumph should force people to rethink their passivity

Interview on the situation in the besieged town of Homs, bombarded by the Syrian military

“Syria needs a non-sectarian national government to prepare a new constitution"

The Afghan conflict has reached a stalemate. The US knows the Taliban are its route to withdrawal

Interview on Pakistan's internal turmoil, Pakistani attitudes toward U.S. foreign policy, the GOP presidential contest, and the prospect of a military strike against Iran

Diary account of North Korea

The Nato assault on a Pakistani checkpoint close to the Afghan border which killed 24 soldiers on Saturday must have been deliberate

A decade of struggle and organisation is needed to win a few victories

‘How do the ninety-nine percenters compare with mass protests of the past – and can they succeed?’

These days war is presented as a ‘humanitarian' necessity

Tariq Ali presents a talk to the British Socialist Workers Party's Marxism 2011, held in London, June 30-July 4

The Murdoch Empire has dominated British politics since the days of Margaret Thatcher

If the US goes hunting again to kill more people in the country, tensions could reach a breaking point

Tariq Ali talks to Riz Khan on Al Jazeera's One on One program about growing up in Pakistan, his student days at Oxford University, the anti-war movement, the US empire and paths of the international left.

The principal aim of Soviet foreign policy in the region had always been to preserve Afghanistan as a neutral state