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THE STATES OF THE EARTH by Mohamed Amer Meziane | Verso Books
If modernity is the Anthropocene, and modernity is the product of secularization, then what is the connection between secularization and the climate crisis?
Far from a defense of religion, THE STATES OF THE EARTH argues that phenomena such as evangelism and political Islam are best understood as products of empire and secularization. In a world where material technology was considered divine, religious and secular forces both tried to achieve Heaven on Earth by destroying Earth itself.
The States of the Earth by Mohamed Amer Meziane is out now! www.versobooks.com/products/3050-the-states-of-the-earth?
"Meziane, in his recently published book, argues that Europe, and France specifically, give...
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Jason Read and Jeremy Gilbert on Marx, Spinoza, Work, and Breaking Bad
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Even as the rewards of work decline and its demands on us increase, many people double-down on their commitment to wage slavery-working harder, doing overtime, and learning to hustle. To paraphrase Spinoza, why do people fight to be exploited as if it were liberation? Jason Read's book - The Double Shift - turns to the intersection of Marx and Spinoza and examines contemporary ideologies and th...
Robin Blackburn on the History of Slavery and Capitalism in the Americas
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How was slavery defeated in the Americas? In this interview Robin Blackburn discusses the key ideas and arguments in his new work, The Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776-1888. He is interviewed by Kevin Ochieng Okoth-a writer and researcher based in London, part of the Salvage Editorial Collective, and author of Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics. The Reckoni...
Søren Mau on Communism, Capitalism, and Social Democracy
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What do we want communism to look like? Søren Mau discusses communist modes of production, Left utopian ideas, the transcendental power of capitalism, and his book, Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital. He is interviewed by Richard Hames, audio producer at Novara Media. Read his essay on the Verso blog, referenced in the interview: Communism is Freedom www.versoboo...
Enzo Traverso on Fascism, Marxism and Israel
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Enzo Traverso is an Italian scholar of European intellectual history, and the author of several books on critical theory, Marxism, Fascism, revolution, and contemporary historiography. He teaches at Cornell University, and his most recent book is Revolution: An Intellectual History www.versobooks.com/products/2783-revolution? In this interview with his Verso editor, Sebastian Budgen, he discuss...
Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Work, and Algorithms | Matteo Pasquinelli and Richard Hames
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What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the quest "to solve intelligence"-a solution supposedly to be found in the secret logic of the mind, such as in its complex neural networks. Matteo Pasquinelli argues, to the contrary, that the inner code of AI is shaped not by the imitation of biological intelligence, but the intelligence of labour and social relations. Here he is interviewed by Rich...
Andreas Malm on Palestine, Climate Activism and over-shooting 1.5 °C
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Andreas Malm is a Swedish climate activist, associate professor of human ecology at Lund University, and author of the best-selling How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire. Naomi Klein describes him as “one of the most original thinkers on the subject" of climate change. In this interview with his Verso editor, Sebastian Budgen, he discusses the origins of his climate ac...
Platform capitalism is coming for your money | Rachel O'Dwyer on Tokens, NFTs, and Bitcoin
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Wherever you look, money is being re- placed by tokens. Digital platforms are issuing new kinds of money-like things: phone credit, shares, gift vouchers, game tokens, customer data-the list goes on. But what does it mean when online platforms become the new banks? What new types of control and discrimination emerge when money is tied to specific apps or actions, politics or identities? In this...
Red Africa and Revolutionary Black Politics | Kevin Ochieng Okoth and Ashok Kumar
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What is Red Africa? Kevin Ochieng Okoth and Ashok Kumar discuss radical Black Marxism, including the history of African socialism, Afro-pessimism, race and class, Portuguese anti-colonialism, and the future of Black radical politics. Kevin Ochieng Okoth's new book - Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics - makes the case for a revolutionary Black politics inspired by Marxist antico...
What is Antiracism? | Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Arun Kundnani
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Why has liberalism been ineffective at combating racism? And what would a more radical anti-racism look like? On July 13th 2023 Ruth Wilson Gilmore joined Arun Kundnani at an event to launch his new book, What Is Antiracism? And Why It Means Anticapitalism, at the Independent Social Research Foundation in London. This is the event footage from that evening. Find Arun Kundnani's new book here: w...
The Problem with Liberal Antiracism | Arun Kundnani and Kojo Koram
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The Problem with Liberal Antiracism | Arun Kundnani and Kojo Koram
Walter Rodney: Guerilla Intellectual | Robin D.G. Kelley & Kevin Ochieng Okoth
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Walter Rodney: Guerilla Intellectual | Robin D.G. Kelley & Kevin Ochieng Okoth
How Can the Left Solve the Climate Crisis?
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How Can the Left Solve the Climate Crisis?
Nancy Fraser on capitalism, gender oppression, Marxism, and the post-left populist moment
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Nancy Fraser on capitalism, gender oppression, Marxism, and the post-left populist moment
Where should the Trade Union movement go from here?
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Where should the Trade Union movement go from here?
Workplace organising in the tech industry
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Workplace organising in the tech industry
“No worker is too precarious to organize their workplace.” | Troublemaking
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“No worker is too precarious to organize their workplace.” | Troublemaking
David Harvey on Marx's Grundrisse
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David Harvey on Marx's Grundrisse
David Harvey on capital, theory, and becoming a Marxist
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David Harvey on capital, theory, and becoming a Marxist
Brett Christophers on OUR LIVES IN THEIR PORTFOLIOS
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Brett Christophers on OUR LIVES IN THEIR PORTFOLIOS
Brett Christophers on The Development of Asset Management Firms
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Brett Christophers on The Development of Asset Management Firms
Brett Christophers on Viewing Asset Management Firms as Landlords
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Brett Christophers on Viewing Asset Management Firms as Landlords
Brett Christophers on How Everybody is Affected by Asset Management Firms
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Brett Christophers on How Everybody is Affected by Asset Management Firms
Brett Christophers on the Expansion of Asset Management Firms across the Globe
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Brett Christophers on the Expansion of Asset Management Firms across the Globe
Brett Christophers on Your Retirement in Blackstone's Portfolio
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Brett Christophers on Your Retirement in Blackstone's Portfolio
Walter Benjamin's legacy | Esther Leslie and Stuart Jeffries
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Walter Benjamin's legacy | Esther Leslie and Stuart Jeffries
Most AI is not artificial or intelligent | James Bridle and Cory Doctorow
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Most AI is not artificial or intelligent | James Bridle and Cory Doctorow
What comes after we abolish borders?
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What comes after we abolish borders?
Gentrification is NOT Inevitable | Leslie Kern in conversation with David Madden
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Gentrification is NOT Inevitable | Leslie Kern in conversation with David Madden
Abolish the Family | Sophie Lewis speaks to Ben Smoke
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Abolish the Family | Sophie Lewis speaks to Ben Smoke

Комментарии

  • @lesleewatson4266
    @lesleewatson4266 День назад

    She’s not well.

  • @davidwave4
    @davidwave4 2 дня назад

    It's really interesting hearing about how many of these disparate lines of thought are linked to and in communication with each other. I think that the anti-colonial movement is, perhaps, the single most successful Marxist movement in history, and so it makes sense to resurrect and carry forward the ideologies, politics that animated it.

  • @michaellewis3747
    @michaellewis3747 5 дней назад

    He is spot on

  • @SimonBaddeley
    @SimonBaddeley 5 дней назад

    Tariq Ali - a great intellect, a vigorous mind, a fine writer - yet incapable of imagining the scale of depravity unleashed in Germany from the 1930s; incapable of grasping the complex moral compass that could rouse Britain, a population led by an understandably appeasing political class, to fight and die in another world war; incapable of seeing anything but the character of a 'cult' in the celebration and memorialisation of a political leader able to rouse a nation against National Socialism, and its allies, so soon after payment of the devastating butcher's bill of the Kaiser's War. The 1500+ comments on this RUclips exemplify the way the internet shepherds its users into silos. I never had a chance to meet a good few of the ancestors who in a Europe without these two wars would have survived, albeit under a fascist imperium. They fought and died, not for Churchill, but for the freedoms we enjoy today - freedoms undervalued as Churchill's legacy is obscured by time and the half-truths of his detractors.

  • @augmenautus
    @augmenautus 6 дней назад

    If an economy is shrinking, you are going to have a depression whether you are operating under capitalism, Marxism, feudalism, etc. It's not like only capitalist countries experience recessions.

  • @nademkhan931
    @nademkhan931 6 дней назад

    3 million dead in the Bengal famine. If Churchill carries even partial responsibility for that he would be no different to Hitler

  • @naokuroda6202
    @naokuroda6202 7 дней назад

    What may be the effects of this on knowledge?

  • @naokuroda6202
    @naokuroda6202 7 дней назад

    How might this be happening?

  • @naokuroda6202
    @naokuroda6202 7 дней назад

    To what extend do you agree ?

  • @mauriciocv1658
    @mauriciocv1658 9 дней назад

    12:55 nostalgic algorithm

  • @mauriciocv1658
    @mauriciocv1658 9 дней назад

    11:10 learning by doing. To catch the mistakes you have to actually implement the algorithm.

  • @briansandford614
    @briansandford614 10 дней назад

    💩

  • @davidmarston207
    @davidmarston207 13 дней назад

    Blood and Oil, how Churchill lost the British Empire’s war against the Turks, Churchill urged his ex Daughter-in-law to marry Averell Harriman in 1942, the same year he was installed as a War time PM, Averell Harriman and Prescott Bush were both US Congress (Skull and Bones) members and Global Bankers who helped finance Hitler’s Chancellorship and the Nazis, a deal brokered by Montague Norman who controlled the Global Bank of England, he was also a member of the Rothschild family.

  • @arthurheidt6373
    @arthurheidt6373 14 дней назад

    War on woke will become war on woke Fascism the Future

  • @tristan9974
    @tristan9974 16 дней назад

    Think big. Free all of them.

  • @rosstisbury1626
    @rosstisbury1626 17 дней назад

    an excellant way to start my day . . . many thanks

  • @OfficialRibbitNixon
    @OfficialRibbitNixon 20 дней назад

    Marx's abolition of the family was in relation to the state the family was in under capitalism. Meaning the fractured entity of the whole family working in factories. His statement on the abolishing of the family was in reference to that exact state of the family, Not the family unit entirely. It makes absolute zero sense why a man who very vigorously championed the importance monogamy and had seven children to the same wife, would support a complete abolition of the family unit. Anarchists like Sophie Lewis, clearly have no right to fall back on Marxism when they themselves have zero understanding on him or his writings.

  • @sethdekooters7567
    @sethdekooters7567 20 дней назад

    Military incompetent, naval dilettante, boy chaser, alcoholic, spendthrift, inveterate gambler, chronic dissembler, glutton, and self-loathing Jew transformed into a Man for All Seasons. Remarkable what a fawning Fleet Street and Hollywood can do.

  • @daniel_ecology
    @daniel_ecology 20 дней назад

    I really enjoyed the book. I study nature protection and in my philosophy seminar we talked about how we have to change the way we interact with nature a how we have to change the way we work in nature conversation. I think this is the way we have to go. Convivial Conservation will maybe be not the easy way but definitely the most sustainable.

  • @roballen2692
    @roballen2692 22 дня назад

    This would be amazing. I unfortunately can't get my head that far up my a$$ to think this is what would happen. Definition of ignorance. Move to a communist country, stay there for a year or two. Come back and tell us how great it is and the freedom you had. Many close friends have fled these countries. They tell me of the beautiful housing, the food is plentiful, the laws and censorship are amazing. They loved waiting in lines for hours to maybe get groceries, they loved the convenience of not having multiple food items to pick from. The food rations were the best, oh and the promise of the government free money turning into forced labor was even better. They think the government is bad now lmao, give them complete power snd see how that goes. "Let's talk about what we want it to look like" free housing, food, transportation.

  • @Cromwelldunbar
    @Cromwelldunbar 23 дня назад

    Tarik Allí b/o! You don’t like Britain - all your life and mine too - you have always taken the other side - the side if Britain’s enemy - and you have tried to tell lies all the time…

  • @somebody-by9ge
    @somebody-by9ge 23 дня назад

    This woman has obviously suffered a great deal of childhood trauma, yet is unable to admit that she needs healing.

  • @tonycarton8054
    @tonycarton8054 23 дня назад

    My granny in n ireland referred to him as a war-monger

    • @AtheistEve
      @AtheistEve 16 дней назад

      Mine, too. In England.

  • @franklittle8124
    @franklittle8124 24 дня назад

    Boy, I'm a lot older that Andreas, but the evolution, rise and fall of the left and anarchism here in Pittsburgh USA in the 1990s and 00's was just like in Sweden. Yes, 4th internationalists were nice people.

  • @navegandomivandestadt34
    @navegandomivandestadt34 24 дня назад

    Brilliant

  • @indrekkpringi
    @indrekkpringi 25 дней назад

    The irony is that after destroying the only successful national socialist nation Britain tried to copy Hitler's national socialism

  • @indrekkpringi
    @indrekkpringi 25 дней назад

    After the war Churchill told FDR privately that they had fought the wrong enemy... BUT... he never admitted that publicly. THIS SCUMBAB NEVER MENTIONS THAT.

  • @kidluna
    @kidluna 25 дней назад

    most of what is asserted seems very generalized an ideological. It's a fun larp, but where are they getting into the nuts and bolts of producing such energy as well as maintaining a competetive edge in world power. It's weird how leftists try to hide the ball in that they never address power because they benefit so greatly from the current power structure.

  • @LS-xs7sg
    @LS-xs7sg 26 дней назад

    The academic agent channel on RUclips has a more interesting take. Tariq’s is very much an outsiders perspective full of moralising, resentment and exaggeration

  • @Autonomy0
    @Autonomy0 27 дней назад

    Now I understand why Boris Johnson is so infatuated with Churchill: birds of a feather...

  • @diannegooding8733
    @diannegooding8733 27 дней назад

    Hear the name Tariq Ali you know that it is going to be B/S. Total.

  • @gbrinch
    @gbrinch 27 дней назад

    Edmund D. Morel on the likes of Churchill. To the Belligerent Governments By Edmund Dene Morel Wider and wider the spread of your devastations. Higher and higher the mountains of the dead - The dead because of you. All the wars and all the plagues were as nought To the madness of your doings. Like the breath of pestilence this madness sweeps Through the plains and valleys of Europe, Destroying in multitudes the children of men. What have the people done that you should treat them so? Have they not stocked your Treasuries? Have they not lacked that you might be filled? Have not great masses of them submissively endured poverty, squalor and want whilst you prated to them of Liberty and Equality, of Patriotism and Empire? In return, what have you done for the peoples? You have taught them a false ideal of nationalism Honour and national greatness. You have pumped fear into their hearts in Order to uphold that militarism you use to crush and drain them. Continuously, cynically, deliberately you have sacrificed them to your secret manoeuvres and sordid quarrels. Your armies, dead-locked in foul embrace, Sway backwards and forwards, advancing Here a little, there a little - but at immense cost. Baffled, you order the death and mutilation of multitudes; You rain death upon sleeping cities, you decree the slow starvation of Communities, you strew the floor of the sea with the bodies of the helpless. And the scribes and pharises you pay with this intent, dupe and mystify the people. Your hireling priests call upon the Deity to sanctify your deeds and nail once more the Christ upon the cross. Constantly, you seek to involve more peoples in the general ruin of which you are the architects From the uttermost ends of the earth, you Conduct fresh contingents to the slaughter, Men with brown skins and yellow; black men Of whom you you boasted a short while ago that you Had rescued them from barbarism. You sow the world with lies, with malice and with incharitableness. You ingerminate the cancer of unreason. You invent and trick, distort and vilify. Under your moulding, Humanity becomes misshapen, ghoulish, revolting. You murder the body, and purify the mind and were you able you would kill the soul. One and all you squandered the communally earned wealth of your peoples on engines of destruction. One and all you lied and plotted and spied Spun webs of intrigue, dug pits, laid traps Contrived ambushes for your neighbours. Gregers Brinch, [12/11/2023 21:45] One and all you betrayed your peoples Victory? What means this victory you proclaim to be your goal? The victory you seek is a victory which shall Perpetuate your empire over Mankind; keep Humanity bound in fetters to your cruel and senseless systems; Maintain your castles and your monopolies; strengthen your embargoes Upon the people’s liberties. They will be secure, you say, if you can crush, humiliate and dictate terms to your rivals, who - you falsely state - are their rivals. They will prosper, you say from the ruin of their neighbours All this is false and you know it is false! Because dictation, humiliation and crushing bring no security to those who inflict them, but only bring hatred and revenge against which the perpetrators must be forever on their guard. Thus your notion of “Victory” means for the peoples increased poverty and a renewal of fears and hatreds. For the peoples your Victory means Death. There is but one victory which can bring Salvation to the peoples and heal wounds which your disorderly ambitions and monumental selfishness have inflicted upon them; and which can create a fairer world for their descendants. That victory is the victory which shall prove, Finally and for all time, that warfare between Nations can achieve nothing but disaster and misery. It is the victory which shall precipitate a great awakening in the hearts and minds of men. It is the victory which shall turn the nations In loathing from you and your idols of Power and greed; which shall open to them the Road to peace and good will towards all men; Domination over none; cooperation and Partnership with all in the common tasks of social service which knows no frontiers; and in the concentration of human effort upon honourable rivalry in arts and crafts and all branches of constructive knowledge. It is the victory which out of this chaos of desolation will lead to Understanding. For none but you does that victory spell defeat. And so in praying that the kind of victory you one and all desire shall not be yours, we pray for the victory of justice over injustice, of truth over falsehood, of liberty of thraldom, of understanding over ignorance - that ignorance wherein lie the seeds of every sin against the light.

  • @schurlbirkenbach1995
    @schurlbirkenbach1995 27 дней назад

    Churchill was a fashist. But there is a law in history. To fight against fashists, you need other fashists. A woke army would have been defeated. Or like it was said by George Orwell. The "peace pledge union" was the best Ally of the Nazis. Or does anybody belive, the Ucrainians are fighting for the woke world society ? No, they fight, because they believe, that the Russians are half Asians.

  • @krag3r
    @krag3r 28 дней назад

    Churchill was one of the greatest men in human history. This contrarian has made some $$$ arguing to the contrary. Good for him. But Churchill's contribution to the freedom of western europe will never be diminished by the ever growing minority that want rewrite history to serve their anti-british masochism

  • @2011littlejohn1
    @2011littlejohn1 28 дней назад

    Quite reassuring to find someone who says similar things to myself when I point out that the allies lost WWII in Europe and sold half of Europe down the river - they think I'm insane or a supporter of Hitler (by some illogical sense of reasoning).

  • @brownsounddesign
    @brownsounddesign 29 дней назад

    Tariq is missing that Churchill evolved as person to become the defender of democracy and freedom in the world. To say he was the sum of his mistakes and Victorian upbringing is erroneous. We learn from our mistakes. If it wasn't for Churchill and his staunch opposition to Hitler, we might be living in a very different world today where Mr. Ali would have no voice at all and genocide is common place.

  • @kevinsysyn4487
    @kevinsysyn4487 29 дней назад

    Anybody with any real knowledge of history knows Churchill was a monarchist imperialist belligerent warrior for fascist capitalist empire. Nothing speaks so clearly of it than his support for Franco.... He could really turn a word. Hitler and Stalin were an ominous overt threat and handed him his "finest hour". Churchill (not alone) killed millions for the crown. Very disappointing the western democracies didn't defend the elected government of Spain.

  • @johnpirrie9760
    @johnpirrie9760 29 дней назад

    Tariq will be right on to who financed churchill!?? Nyet! Tariq will be right on to the dog and pony, 33rd degree parliamentary democracy shoe!? Nyet! Tariq will trot out the tired, old, old lines aimed at the people, not his supposed target. Tired. Old. Boring.

  • @davidhouston4810
    @davidhouston4810 29 дней назад

    It amazes me that so many people have a distorted opinion of Churchill, He seems to be growing in popularity in the USA. His Leadership during the 2nd World War is the only thing he did that was half way reasonable. Thank you for speaking the Truth.

  • @longtimeninerfan1309
    @longtimeninerfan1309 Месяц назад

    No fan of Churchill here. David Irving’s book and critique on Churchill is very important. Franco led a heroic and just war against the perverted and murderous Communists/Freemasons (“Republicans”) in Spain. Anyone worth their salt knows Stalin and the USSR called the shots on the “ Republican” side.

  • @wilfredruffian5002
    @wilfredruffian5002 Месяц назад

    How fiercely little men resent greatness.

  • @garyfff4757
    @garyfff4757 Месяц назад

    I agree with your sentiments regards Churchill. Re the Falklands, its British because nobody else wanted it,it was literally uninhibited. Re Britain being a sad little place,many strive to live here,im guessing yourself being one of them,to be so anti English which you undoubtedly are,seems unusual.

  • @avalanche9026
    @avalanche9026 Месяц назад

    What’s intresting Churchill Hitler Stalin mosollini. Had in common ? They were 5 feet tool. And bunch of drunken people. Exept Hitler he dint drink no smoke either ….

  • @avalanche9026
    @avalanche9026 Месяц назад

    Yes professor we the Americans knew all along that he was a puppet that depended on US totally. Britz were lucky we got to save the nation.. otherwise Hitler no doubt would take England with no problem.

  • @bubblegumnipples1639
    @bubblegumnipples1639 Месяц назад

    "Migrants are being torn apart at the border" No push back on that comment?

  • @user-xl7ux3xy6p
    @user-xl7ux3xy6p Месяц назад

    Churchill had one great episode in his life ; but for the most part he was an unbearable bore !

  • @22grena
    @22grena Месяц назад

    Churchill sent the Black and Tans to Ireland

  • @panoramicLight
    @panoramicLight Месяц назад

    If anybody has any leads on the suspicion that Churchill manipulated the Irish Civil war behind the scenes...would be grateful for zny pointers to info.

  • @barryballsit4944
    @barryballsit4944 Месяц назад

    "Of course he was not flawless, he made mistakes": Tariq Ali on BBC Newsnight when presented with the catalogue of Castros human rights abuses on the occasion of Castros death. So can make allowances for Cuban dictators but Tariq Ali here makes no similar allowances for Churchill. Very telling indeed

  • @barryballsit4944
    @barryballsit4944 Месяц назад

    "Of course he is not flawless, he made a huge number of mistakes" - Tariq Ali after being presented with a catalogue of Castros human rights abuses on BBC Newsnight when Castro died. So still defends Castro with statements like that but obviously makes no similar allowances for Churchill. Ok