I don’t like Tariq Ali, but the topic is one of my favourites.
In his Preface, Tariq Ali makes clear that he does not support toppling Churchill’s statues wherever they stand—but rather, a deeper battle on the field of historiography, against a consensus that “appears hegemonic but remains vulnerable.” This is the context in which Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes is written—and in which, if I’m any judge at all, it succeeds admirably.
Timidity of a ‘radical’.
What about opposing all statues, be it of Churchill, Thatcher, Lenin or Chavez?
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