Winston Churchill

Portrayed by the dominant hagiographic chronicle as the hero of the resistance against Hitler during the Second World War, and converted into one of the symbols of European democracy - which is still remembered today by countless t-shirts, quotes and speeches. of "coaching" -, Winston Churchill has gone down in history with greater glory than sorrow. In an exercise of historical justice, Tariq Ali sets out here to unearth the words and, above all, the actions that have been hidden under the long shadow of the most famous British politician of all time. In "Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes," Tariq Ali draws a brief global history of the bloody decline of the British Empire and analyzes often forgotten events, such as the catastrophic Partition of India, the repression in Malaysia, and the campaign against the movement. liberation in Kenya. On a personal level, it reveals the sympathy and admiration that Churchill felt for European fascism, and draws the traits of a mentality that led him to exclude colonized peoples, the organized labor movement or women from his defense of democratic values.