Pakistani-born British Trotskyist activist and writer, a leader of the 1968 British movement against the Vietnam War
He joined the International Marxist Group in April 1968, edited The Black Dwarf, and was widely publicised as a leader of the protests against the Vietnam War.
A Pakistani-British activist, writer and filmmaker, born in Lahore in British India to a journalist father and a Communist activist mother. Active as a teenager against Pakistan's military dictatorship, he was sent to England, read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Exeter College, Oxford, and was elected President of the Oxford Union in 1965. A key figure in the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, he helped lead the British anti-war movement of 1968; that year he joined the Trotskyist International Marxist Group, serving in its leadership and on the International Executive Committee of the Fourth International, and edited The Black Dwarf and Red Mole. After leaving the IMG in the early 1980s he worked on the editorial committee of New Left Review and wrote political books such as The Clash of Fundamentalisms (2002) and The Extreme Centre (2015) as well as the novels of the Islam Quintet.