Rough Music: Blair Bombs Baghdad London Terror

Rough Music: Blair, Bombs, Baghdad, London, Terror
	Cover of the first edition
Author	Tariq Ali
Language	English
Subjects	British politics, Iraq War, terrorism
Published	London
Publisher	Verso Books
Publication date	September 2005
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print
Pages	104
ISBN	9781844675456

Rough Music: Blair, Bombs, Baghdad, London, Terror is a 2005 book by British-Pakistani writer, journalist, political activist and historian Tariq Ali.

Synopsis

The book is a reaction to the 7 July 2005 London bombings, which Ali describes as "murderous mayhem that Blair's war has sown in Iraq". The book criticises perceived attacks on civil liberties. He invokes "great dissenters" of the past and calls for "political resistance, within Parliament and without".^[1]^{[
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Reception

The book was reviewed in the peer-reviewed academic journal Current Issues in Criminal Justice^[2] and Arena magazine.^[3]

References

^ "Rough Music: Blair, Bombs, Baghdad, London, Terror". Verso Books. Retrieved 2016-10-16.
^ Poynting, Scott (March 2006). "Rough Music: Blair/Bombs/Baghdad/London/Terror (Book Review)". Current Issues in Criminal Justice. 17 (3). Sydney Law School. ISSN 1034-5329.
^ Nairn, Tom (2006-02-01). "The new Furies: Tariq Ali's newest book calls for Britain to re-examine its role as one of the real sources of insecurity in the globalised world order". HighBeam Research. Arena Magazine. Archived from the original on 2018-11-18. Retrieved 2015-09-21.

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[1] "Rough Music: Blair, Bombs, Baghdad, London, Terror". Verso Books. Retrieved 2016-10-16.

[2] Poynting, Scott (March 2006). "Rough Music: Blair/Bombs/Baghdad/London/Terror (Book Review)". Current Issues in Criminal Justice. 17 (3). Sydney Law School. ISSN 1034-5329.

[3] Nairn, Tom (2006-02-01). "The new Furies: Tariq Ali's newest book calls for Britain to re-examine its role as one of the real sources of insecurity in the globalised world order". HighBeam Research. Arena Magazine. Archived from the original on 2018-11-18. Retrieved 2015-09-21.

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v t e Tariq Ali
Essays and monographs	Bush in Babylon (2003) Rough Music: Blair, Bombs, Baghdad, London, Terror (2005) The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power (2008) The Obama Syndrome (2010) The Extreme Centre (2015) The Dilemmas of Lenin (2017) Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes (2022)
Novels	Redemption (1990) Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree (1992) Fear of Mirrors (1998) The Book of Saladin (1998)
Edited volumes	The Stalinist Legacy (1984) Masters of the Universe? NATO's Balkan Crusade (2000)
Films	Partition (1987, writer) Wittgenstein (1993, producer) South of the Border (2009, writer)