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  • Why He Crushed the Oligarchs The Importance of Hugo Chávez
    17 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By TARIQ ALI
    The turn-out in Venezuela last Sunday was huge. 94.9 percent of the electorate voted in the recall referendum. Venezuela, under its new Constitution, permitted the right of the citizens to recall a President before s/he had completed their term of office. No Western democracy enshrines this right in a written or unwritten constitution. Chavez’ victory will have repercussions beyond the borders of Venezuela. It is a triumph of the poor against the rich and it is a lesson that (...)

  • Tariq Ali - Resistance is the first step
    4 November 2003 par (Open-Publishing)

    Resistance is the first step towards Iraqi independence
    This is the classic initial stage of guerrilla warfare against a colonial occupation
    By Tariq Ali
    The Guardian (UK) November 3, 2003
    Some weeks ago, Pentagon inmates were invited to a special in-house showing of an old movie. It was the Battle of Algiers, Gillo Pontecorvo’s anti-colonial classic, initially banned in France. One assumes the purpose of the screening was purely educative. The French won that battle, but lost the (...)

  • Occupied Iraq Will Never Know Peace
    30 August 2003 par (Open-Publishing)

    Tariq Ali
    The Age
    August 27, 2003
    The recolonisation of Iraq is not proceeding smoothly.
    The resistance in the country (and in Palestine) is not, as Israeli and Western propagandists like to argue, a case of Islam gone mad. It is, in both cases, a direct consequence of the occupation. Before the recent war, some of us argued that the Iraqi people, however much they despised Saddam Hussein, would not take kindly to being occupied by the United States and its British adjutant. (...)