![[Ted Grant Archive – Update] Churchill’s Support Crumbling](https://communist.red/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Hammer-and-sickle-the-communist-featured-image.png "[Ted Grant Archive – Update] Churchill’s Support Crumbling")
Contrary to the official mythology about Churchill, by 1944 he was already losing support among the people of Britain. This article by Ted Grant, written at the time and based on local election results, shows that the workers were becoming radicalised. This was to be confirmed in a dramatic way just after the war when Labour won a landslide victory.
Read the article on the Ted Grant Archive.
Today is the 80th anniversary of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union in World War Two. This bloody catastrophe, which claimed the lives of almost 5m Soviet troops and saw the Nazis plunge deep into Soviet territory, was facilitated by the wrecking behaviour of Stalin and the bureaucracy.
Today marks the 75th anniversary of VE Day. The establishment are pushing flag-waving jingoism down people’s throats, to distract from the COVID-19 crisis. We must tell the truth about WWII and the so-called ‘war hero’ Winston Churchill.
In the second part of his analysis on the Greek Revolution and Civil War, Arturo Rodriguez examines the role of British imperialism and of the Stalinist leadership of the Communists. Written before the recent capitulation of the Syriza leadership to the demands of the Troika, Arturo looks at the tasks facing revolutionaries in Greece today.