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Title: TARIQ ALI - GLASGOW

Reference number: 11429

Date: 2014, March 14

Director: filmed by Kevin Gibney

Sound: sound

Original format: unknown

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 99.22 mins

Description: Webcast of a talk about Scottish independence by author Tariq Ali, from the series "The Independence Lectures" hosted by the Radical Independence Campaign.

Films made for the Scottish Independence Referendum. Acquired in conjunction with National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Collections Referendum Curator. Find out more at https://www.nls.uk/collections/topics/referendum

Material made available via the following website:
http://independencelive.net

Shotlist: Webcast of a talk about Scottish independence by author Tariq Ali at the Boyd Orr Building, University of Glasgow - from the series "The Independence Lectures" hosted by the Radical Independence Campaign.

"Over the coming months RIC will be co-hosting “The Independence Lectures” in association with Pluto Press and Wordpower books. This series of public events will be addressed by renowned academics, authors and thinkers, who will introduce radical arguments on a variety of topics related to Scotland’s constitutional debate. Through this series, we will explore every aspect of the independence debate, introducing detailed discussions on economics, history, society and culture. Our aim is to facilitate an in depth discussion on the meaning of independence, and its relationship with social change. The first in the series is with internationally renowned author Tariq Ali. Born in Pakistan, Tariq Ali became one of Britain’s top left-wing intellectuals in the 1960s when he led student opposition to the Vietnam War. In this period, he befriended John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and Malcolm X, and was the alleged inspiration for "Street Fighting Man" by the Rolling Stones. He has remained one of the UK’s most influential commentators and authors. Now, he is in Scotland to argue that a Yes vote will benefit the socialist cause UK- and world-wide." [event publicity]