Alfred Street (University of Auckland Store)
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The Extreme Centre : A Second Warning
Paperback Edition: 1
Britain's leading radical delivers an eviscerating attack on the indistinguishable political elite of the UK. 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. Here, 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.
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Pages : 318
Publisher : Verso Books
Publication date : 2018-04-01
Subjects: Non-fiction, Published in the USA, Humanities, History, Politics, Revolutions, Uprisings, Rebellions, Political Parties, Political Science & Theory, Political Structures: Democracy