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.