Pakistani-born British political activist, writer, socialist leader,
editor, anti-war spokesperson, demonstration leader, playwright,
historian, novelist, television producer, and film-maker. His
publications include "The Coming British Revolution" (1972), "Can
Pakistan Survive?" (1983), "The Nehrus and the Gandhis" (1985), "Street
Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties" (1987), and "Ugly
Rumours" (1998), a play satirizing the Blair government. A friend of
Bertrand Russell, whom he met while at school at Oxford.
