Jacobin Radio: 1968 with Tariq Ali
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🗓️ 5 June 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
On this edition of Jacobin Radio, Suzi talks to legendary street-fighting man, author and playwright Tariq Ali about 1968 — as seen from today, fifty years later. The first cover of Black Dwarf, founded by Tariq and others in May 1968, is reproduced in the latest London Review of Books: “We Shall Fight, We Will Win, Paris, London, Rome, Berlin.” Now there is an emerging strike wave in France — and the slogan is “We are not commemorating 1968, we are continuing 1968.” Suzi talks to Tariq Ali about continuity and change since 1968.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Susie Weizmann and this is Jacobin Radio. |
| 0:09.0 | Today we speak to legendary street fighting man, author, and playwright Taric Alley |
| 0:18.0 | about 1968, 50 years on, continuity and change. |
| 0:23.0 | This is Jacobin Radio and I am Susie Wiseman. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm very pleased to have Tarak Alley back. Back of In radio and I am Susie Wiseman. |
| 0:32.6 | I'm very pleased to have Tarrick Ali back with us. |
| 0:35.5 | The last time we spoke to Tarrick |
| 0:37.4 | was to commemorate the 100th anniversary |
| 0:40.2 | of the Russian Revolution and the publication. Of his great book on Lenin. Of his great book on Lenin, |
| 0:45.0 | today we are going to be speaking about 1968, 50 years on, |
| 0:51.0 | and it is actually the cover of the latest London review of books and it has on it |
| 0:58.2 | we shall fight, we shall win Paris London, Rome, Berlin and that was the slogan and Tarak Alley was the street fighting man. |
| 1:06.1 | He is a playwright journalist, the editor of Verso Books. |
| 1:09.6 | He's written dozens of books. |
| 1:11.9 | We just mentioned Lenin, another really appropriate one that we |
| 1:15.1 | should mention is the Extreme Center and 1968 Marching in the streets, Tarag Alley |
| 1:21.7 | and Susan Watkins and so many more, but I'm really |
| 1:24.8 | pleased to have you on Jacobin Radio, Taric Alley. |
| 1:28.3 | Hi there, Susie, great to be with you. It's always great to be with you. Just to begin, Tarrick, |
| 1:34.0 | 1968 was the high point and in some ways the end point |
| 1:38.0 | of the post-war boom. |
| 1:41.0 | And today, I want to talk a little bit about 68, but I want to focus on |
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