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Podcast: The Pakistan Experience
Episode: 1971, PDM, PPP and a history of the Left - Tariq Ali - Writer/Intellectual - TPE #098
Description: Tariq Ali is a British political activist, writer, journalist, historian, filmmaker, and public intellectual. He is the author of many books, including Pakistan: Military Rule or People's Power (1970), Can Pakistan Survive? The Death of a State (1983), Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity (2002).
Tariq Ali comes back on the podcast to discuss dynastic politics, the PPP that was, if there is any reason to be hopeful in PDM, 1971, Fatima Jinnah, and the Pakistani left.
Does the left in Pakistan need to consolidate? Does it need to update its manifesto? Do we need a revolution in Pakis...