The Life and Crimes of Winston Churchill
Tariq Ali is the author of two dozen books and his career as a public intellectual and activist stretches back to the 1960s. His new book Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes is an effort to demolish the "Churchill myth" that has been built up since the Thatcher years. Ali demonstrates that Churchill was:
- Not actually popular among the British public, who threw him out of office immediately at the end of World War II, and voted in the socialist Labour government instead
- A virulent white supremacist whose core political beliefs were the violent maintenance of the British empire abroad…
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