To launch the publication of the revised edition of Pirates of the Caribbean in
paperback
Tariq Ali presents a special screening of Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition,
directed by Maurice Hatton
Curzon Mayfair, London, 6:30pm, Friday 16th May.
Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition
Director: Maurice Hatton, UK, 1970, 90 mins.
Tariq Ali presents Maurice Hatton’s extraordinary and hilarious first film, starring
a young John Thaw as a working class advocate of world revolution who seduces a
string of bourgeois beauties in the hope of impregnating them with his revolutionary
message.
Tariq Ali has written more than a dozen books on world history and politics, six
novels and scripts for both stage and screen.
Tickets are £12.
To book: https://www.curzoncinemas.com/box_office/book_tickets/v95yl3
Curzon Mayfair
38 Curzon St London W1J 7TY
Box Office: 0871 7033 989
Recorded Information – 020 7495 0501
Part of the All Power to the Imagination! 1968 and its Legacies season:
www.1968.org.uk
OUT NOW: NEW AND REVISED PAPERBACK EDITION
Pirates of the Caribbean
Axis of Hope
Tariq Ali
"Tariq Ali, the Johnny Depp of international comment sails out in this little
barque… to assault the top-heavy galleon of Washington Consensus, as she labours
leaking through the Spanish Main…” - Spectator
• Pirates of the Caribbean is a timely account of the rise of the ‘axis of hope’ –
four Latin American countries that have unified at the forefront of a Latin American
revolution against neoliberalism and American aggression. Now, with the election of
Fernando Lugo, Paraguay seems to be following the same path.
• Tariq Ali, renowned commentator, political activist, novelist, playwright and
filmmaker, builds on his visits to Venezuela, Bolivia and Cuba, and his meetings
with Hugo Chávez, to paint a compelling portrait of a continent in rebellion.
• Ali traces the explosive rise to power of Chávez, Morales and, in this revised
edition, of the newly-elected President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa. He recounts the
series of extraordinary reforms they are introducing to lift the poor of out of
poverty, wresting back control of the country from corporations.
• In his inimical polemical style, Ali exposes the US’s aggression in the region and
highlights the bias of the Western media.
Since 1998, the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela has brought Hugo Chávez to world
attention as the foremost challenger of the neoliberal consensus and American
foreign policy. Drawing on the first-hand experience of Venezuela and meetings with
Chávez, Tariq Ali shows how Chávez’s views have polarized Latin America and examines
the hostility directed against his administration. Contrasting the Cuban and
Venezuelan revolutionary processes, Ali discusses the enormous influence of Fidel
Castro on both Chávez, President of Bolivia Evo Morales and, in this fully updated
edition, the newly-elected President of Ecuador Rafael Correa. Infused with
references to the culture and poetry of South America, Pirates of the Caribbean
guides us through a world divided between privilege and poverty, a continent that is
once again on the march.
Praise for Pirates of the Caribbean:
“Exuberant and good to read.” – London Review of Books
“Tariq Ali has written a fine, impressionistic work about the effervescent hope in
the region.” – Tribune
Paperback / 9781844672486 / £8.99 / $17.95 / 320 pages
To purchase:
Verso
http://www.versobooks.com/books/ab/a-titles/ali_t_pirates_caribbean.shtml
Amazon UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pirates-Caribbean-Axis-Tariq-Ali/dp/1844672484/ref=sr_1_1?ie
=UTF8&s=books&qid=1210596365&sr=1-1
Amazon US
http://www.amazon.com/Pirates-Caribbean-Axis-Revised-Expanded/dp/1844672484/ref=sr_1
_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1210596414&sr=1-1
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