Remembering Alexander Cockburn

We will be joined by friends, family and colleagues to look back on his extraordinary career, exploring his view of America and his style of radical journalism.

A talented and courageous writer and the most influential radical journalist of his generation, Alexander Cockburn was most at home in the political and cultural battlegrounds of the US. In a career that spanned 40 years he wrote for an array of publications, co-edited CounterPunch and was the author of a number of titles, including Corruptions of Empire, The Golden Age Is in Us and Imperial Crusades.ColossalWreck_smallHe began his career in journalism writing for the student newspaper Cherwell at the University of Oxford. After a few years freelancing for the New Left Review, the New Statesman and others he crossed the pond in 1972. From 1973 he was a writer with The Village Voice, originating its Press Clips column. He went on to write for The Nation and a selection of other titles in the US and the UK.

We will be joined by friends, family and colleagues to look back on Alexander Cockburn’s extraordinary career, exploring his view of America and his style of radical journalism. We will also hear readings from his final work, A Colossal Wreck: A Road Trip Through Political Scandal, Corruption, and American Culture, finished shortly before his death in July 2012.

With:

Journalist and brother of Alexander Cockburn, Patrick Cockburn. He has been a Middle East correspondent since 1979, first for the Financial Times, then for The Independent. He is author of several books including The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq and Muqtada Al-Sadr and the Battle for the Future of Iraq.

Writer and friend of Alexander Cockburn, Tariq Ali. He has written more than a dozen books on world history and politics, including Pirates of the Caribbean, Bush in Babylon, The Clash of Fundamentalisms and The Obama Syndrome. He is an editor of the New Left Review.

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