Blog postVIDEO: Tariq Ali in conversation with Owen Jones at the Stoke Newington Literary Festival 2013Derry Tomlinson28 August 2013 Tariq Ali is the author of more than a dozen books on world history and politics, including Pirates of the Caribbean, Bush in Babylon and The Obama Syndrome, as well as five novels in his Islam Quintet series. At the 2013 Stoke Newington Literary Festival, he spoke to Owen Jones, ex-trade union lobbyist and author of Chavs: The Demonisation of the Working Class, about the reissue of The Stalinist Legacy and current global politics.