“I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion. The famine was their own fault for breeding like rabbits.”

Today marks the death of Winston Churchill. Here’s a thread of things you won’t see in the glowing tributes to the ‘greatest Britton ever’. 🧵 The quote above references Churchill’s comments about the 1943 Bengali famine which killed as many as 3.8 million people.

Whilst Churchill blamed the starving Indian population, the famine was actually caused by Britian’s systemic looting of India’s food supplies.

Brazil are playing just now. That means there’s no better time to talk about the Brazilian midfielder who moved to Italy so that he could “read Gramsci in the original language and study the history of the workers' movement."

A thread about Sócrates. 🧵 Sócrates, who captained Brazil to both the '82 & '86 World Cups, was a socialist.

Growing up amidst Brazil's military dictatorship, Socrates recalled watching his father burn Bolshevik books in fear of arrest.