Leftists take statue hysteria international

Horatio Nelson, Captain Cook, and even Gandhi targeted as left-wing war on history expands

Left-wing activists, eager to tear down symbols of western history, have carried their assault on supposedly offensive statues and monuments across the Atlantic.

Leftists in America have called for the removal — or attempted the removal themselves — of statues of everyone from Confederate generals to Founding Fathers to world-changing explorers, and even Catholic saints. It now seems that progressives in other countries have taken note of the American Left’s relentless damnatio memoriae.