The extreme centre : A Warning
Ali, Tariq2015
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Total copies: 1
Leading radical Tariq Ali, editor of }New Left Review{, delivers an eviscerating attack on the indistinguishable political elite of the UK. Ali will appear on BBC Radio 4, }Newsnight{ and BBC World Service. What is the point of elections? The result is always the same: a victory for the Extreme Centre. Since 1989, politics has become a contest to see who can best serve the needs of the market, a competition now fringed by unstable populist movements. The same catastrophe has taken place in the US, Britain, Continental Europe and Australia. In this urgent and wide-ranging case for the prosecution, Tariq Ali looks at the people and the events that have informed this moment of political suicide: corruption in Westminster; the failures of the EU and NATO; the soft power of the American Empire that dominates the world stage uncontested. Despite this inertia, Ali goes in search of alternative futures, finding promise in the Bolivarian revolutions of Latin America and at the edges of Europe. Emerging parties in Scotland, Greece and Spain, formed out of the 2008 crisis, are offering new hope for democracy.
Main title:
The extreme centre : A Warning / Tariq Ali.
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Imprint:
London : Verso, 2015.
Collation:
200 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.Also issued online.
ISBN:
9781784782627 (paperback)
Dewey class:
320.91821320.9182 ALI
LC class:
D2009
Language:
English
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Subject:
World politics -- 1989-World politics -- ForecastingCenter parties -- Western countriesDemocracy -- Western countriesPolitical culture -- Western countriesCapitalism -- Political aspects -- Western countriesPopulismRevolutionsHISTORY / Europe / Great BritainPolitics and GovernmentUnited Kingdom, Great BritainPolitics & governmentPolitical science & theoryPolitical activismPolitical economyPolitical structure & processesEuropean historyEuropeGreat Britain -- Politics and government -- 2007-Western countries -- Politics and government
BRN:
272693