The extreme centre - Tariq Ali

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.