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Perfect for dig listeners like you

One that you might like is Street Fighting Years, an autobiography of the 60s by Tariq Ali.

What Makes a Young Radical?

Reissued to coincide with the 50th anniversary of 1968, street fighting years

captures the mood and energy of an era of hope and passion as Tariq Ali tracks

the growing significance of the 1960s protest movement, as well as his own

formation as a leading political activist.

Through his personal story, he recounts a counter history of a 60s rocked by the Prague Spring, student protests on the streets of Europe and America, the effects of the Vietnam War, and the aftermath of the

revolutionary insurgencies led by Che Guevara.

It is a story that takes us from Paris and Prague to Hanoi in Bolivia,

encountering along the way Malcolm X, Bertrand Russell,

Marlon Brando, Henry Kissinger, and Mick Jagger.

Street Fighting Years, an autobiography of the 60s by Tariq Ali.

Out now from Verso Books. Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jack up and magazine.

Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jackopin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm

broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. Last week I posted an interview

that I recorded in Barcelona on Spanish politics.

We talked about the question of Catalan independence and how it has served to sideline the

left and questions of economic justice, and we discussed the municipalist movement governing cities like Barcelona.

What we really didn't talk that much about was the fact that the conservative Spanish government of Mariano Rajoy was about to fall,

which it did just a few days later.

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