You Can’t Please All: Memoirs 1980-2024

A memoir of the political-intellectual life of the revolutionary writer Tariq Ali This volume covers four The Eighties and Nineties when the author was no longer engaged in active politics as a party-member of any sort, but had moved sideways to politico-cultural Setting up Bandung Productions (with Darcus Howe) and launching the Bandung File, a unique current affairs show on Channel Four and subsequently Rear Window that mixed culture, politics and ideas.A mixture of anecdotes, reflections, jottings and story-telling the book covers defeats and the rise of new social, political, anti-imperialist. His friendship with Hugo Chavez and trips to most of South America at the height of the Bolivarian wave