MELBOURNE — On May 19, British anti-war campaigner Tariq Ali told an audience of 800 people at RMIT's Storey Hall that the “hollowed out democracies” that existed in the US, Britain and Australia were “iron dictatorships of capital imposing enormous strains” on the rest of the world.

While his public meeting was focussed on the Iraq war and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Ali also highlighted the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela, which he described as “gaining strength and becoming an example for Latin America and the world”.

Kim Bullimore

From Green Left Weekly, May 25, 2005.
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