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Why He Crushed the Oligarchs The Importance of Hugo Chávez

2004-08-17T03:04:50Z

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 (…)

- contributions / Governments, South/Latin America, Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali - Resistance is the first step

2003-11-04T10:49:41Z

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 (…)

- contributions / Wars and conflicts, International, Tariq Ali

Occupied Iraq Will Never Know Peace

2003-08-30T00:24:25Z

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. (…)

- contributions / Wars and conflicts, International, Tariq Ali