Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Being Red: A Politics for the Future
    Being Red: A Politics for the Future
    Being Red: A Politics for the Future
    Ebook210 pages3 hours

    Being Red: A Politics for the Future

    By Ken Livingstone

    4/5

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    In Being Red, Ken Livingstone serves up an account of the Labour Party and its future, at a pivotal moment in its history. Having worked most of his life within the party in various leading roles; as the head of the Greater London Council, as Member of Parliament and as Mayor of London, Livingstone is able to offer insights into the internal workings of the party, and the rise and fall (and potential rise again) of its radical socialist ethos.

    Discussing his battle with Boris Johnson, the fight against privatisation and pollution as well as his analysis of Jeremy Corbyn’s arguably radical leadership and its implications for the future, Livingstone displays his trademark honesty and humour, refusing to shy away from controversy or debate.

    Published in partnership with the Left Book Club.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPluto Press
    Release dateFeb 20, 2016
    ISBN9781783718139
    Being Red: A Politics for the Future
    Author

    Ken Livingstone

    Ken Livingstone is a British politician who has twice held the leading political role in London regional government. He served as the Leader of the Greater London Council from 1981 until the Council was abolished in 1986, and then as the first elected Mayor of London from the creation of the office in 2000 until 2008. He also served as MP for Brent East from 1987 to 2001. His autobiography, You Can't Say That, was published by Faber and Faber in 2011.

    Related to Being Red

    Related ebooks

    Politics For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Road To Partition

      Oct 28, 2021

      The Road To Partition
      9 min read

    • Article

      Whodunnit?

      Dec 17, 2022

      Whodunnit?
      14 min read

    • Article

      Global Cop Out

      Oct 9, 2022

      How do countries with limited financial resources adapt to the ever-more-normal presence of climate catastrophe? The official agenda for COP27, which takes place in Sharm El-Sheikh on 7-19 November, was yet to be released as New Internationalist went

      2 min read

    • Article

      Do Protests Even Work?

      Jun 24, 2020

      Do Protests Even Work?
      9 min read

    • Article

      A Different Perspective

      May 28, 2020

      The author is an honorary research fellow with the Academy of Contemporary China and World Studies and a research fellow with the China Institute, Fudan University The annual sessions of the National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s top legislature,

      6 min read

    • Article

      City Living

      Jan 21, 2021

      London and the 17th Century: The Making of the World’s Greatest City by Margarette Lincoln Yale, 384 pages, £25 In the 17th century, London was a jumbling, juggling city of work, play, debate and discord. It was the beating heart of England’s economy

      2 min read

    • Article

      Now And Then

      Nov 24, 2023

      Now And Then
      3 min read

    • Article

      Editor’s Letter

      Apr 19, 2024

      I’m writing this editor’s letter in the wake of last week’s publication of the Cass Review – an investigation into the UK’s youth gender care services. In the eyes of many, myself included, the review’s final recommendations undermine the right of yo

      2 min read

    • Article

      Torchbearer

      Oct 1, 2019

      Torchbearer
      3 min read

    • Article

      Putting A Gloss On Big Ideas

      Mar 28, 2024

      THE TERM “ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE” is tautological: all intelligence is artificial, in the sense of being man-made. There is nothing new about the notion of robotic intelligence; from the Golem to Google, we have been haunted by the Cartesian model o

      7 min read

    • Article

      The Empire Strikes Back

      Dec 29, 2019

      The Empire Strikes Back
      2 min read

    • Article

      The Marxist Sleepers Waging War On Woke

      Nov 26, 2020

      BACK IN THE EARLY 1980s, when I was studying politics at Leeds University, I had a lengthy reading list of dense, important books. But my favourite work, at best tangentially related to my course, was a tattered pamphlet called “Go Fourth and Multipl

      16 min read

    • Article

      In Search Of The Right Stuff

      Jun 24, 2021

      THE SECRET AUTHOR is not a Conservative. He rarely looks at the current Cabinet without feeling the need of a bath, and his position is that of a disillusioned Labour voter who believes that the greatest political tragedy of the past thirty years was

      3 min read

    • Article

      Queer Joy Is A Protest

      Oct 28, 2022

      It’s not a humble brag when I tell people (which I often do) that I have the best job in the world. My CV features more highs and lows than a Celine Dion vibrato, so I have plenty of points of comparison. In my role as festival director at Liverpool-

      3 min read

    • Article

      Looking Forward

      Sep 6, 2018

      II am pleased to introduce Aimee Greenaway, our newest addition to British Columbia History magazine. Aimee hails from Nanaimo, and will be taking over the reins as Book Review Editor in coming months. I asked her in this column to tell us a little a

      10 min read

    • Article

      Block Votes & Nutters

      Sep 28, 2023

      Block Votes & Nutters
      6 min read

    • Article

      Scots in the Spanish Civil War

      Aug 14, 2021

      Scots in the Spanish Civil War
      3 min read

    • Article

      The Covers Behind KING

      Apr 2, 2018

      The Covers Behind KING
      4 min read

    • Article

      School For Future Tory Stars

      Oct 26, 2023

      School For Future Tory Stars
      7 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Being Red

    4/5

    1 rating0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Being Red - Ken Livingstone

      7cbook_preview_excerpt.html[ˎGv\@II4dK#eBhÜr>X xk{O%>YE002qiHqw_P}?؇'S}7oFXm:?W={Xo:׍rzٲz_ V⥺Sk?xHs/ ^ "cn<`nsU>Xd7\ms9G:uSo3.[gBo s^IG0iH&_G _O ,S6 CS,"]y*d;>zICr e8¤D o~ŔV󾝸)M|vTΫb_L :xI]9 &$'>cnߺ5BND$XĎ#"SCJpԥ=OR @{ ~c"4zo:/p1QݪW 5DQT9oއ%x1~\j t _c1zw>т']T/|iB>}kE̵Ӝh/g8=}5E/~S/VzH*= VdŐRoO}Mj^"Ϡh!u =a'ulw< jz 2:D NRx&֑ q@;D]gR-AxMFwnAČ{:dk t;nέ] jČ b[h8w¿¤* mgEB|[ R!Mt^iK%zA6[8NaWx]F,o).|q|8xU/8$RWGJxSCo$3(,b;\UoO>(Qa7xqǤջP4~k,+PnW5-qڋfC0wJx\у UX kp nqRP ĻRoD-S^Kfrho½GXnP/i)7aUXHwz0tE U|!#DS7lɧbِCÊ)Lodg-Wd?-x@IzChDT}P`SNøjn&=Gn-[>D rh>7'F(~-R-opcwFh' 8칄}`tnQ}&> ڔ[U xiI!H-^v* j=F E,24,r];1%r!F#/ 9ρ^ =IB?A,1JXQߟE%^K!ܫE iF[X>K,*P3KXzIOx.Y]FWႼCN4o txm@x݉U/k3E&^LN܄ &Wxǹ&e0)&P(V*ƐG>ZPzs}-f[y[pj2q!"q:0RZRj?Vq,.,v'>^,܈0oFKhҼEއp%LZ%,TS7hfr({c5r9INqL/A5 \ϑ))>nV왟J92LJzT#oaTIj .x0S)eڔ\ߝ?u {V[l$bxkv?KZn` DQ~z?쁷=Wݱ~˅u9韃uuU%H"q󒟚AgiqWd 1~њ oOgy#UBb" Q% א"NRVDBDRL^4.Lxx,_@2n 0MgT.rhPsJx_6 =-Y{F(d^{Ouu 0F#K@Gr/%DArlȵ2Q\߷ﴤv4Qzt'Vئ|#L$tJ /ʡl2eCOVJ8[H#y{wʩ̰{B2I߹ N |ʲGn" +z`6 ^ Ti+Ɂ2 # 8ΰ٥68PyrQNs3oV$ ^,ui2FE&7S a !%:䑉ٲXNQVFؤDt'Kcz7X;X{c[}pada>gЛxYRΰ4CVʍ/ȥyo1F '6FXTV'vIUs{a[[t0c&9}RcZ ^ We:pQj'N#izޙ̇ydf-Ɨ5 #I5%z^,KYԑyͬ`5ULNEI3[`b(gu2T)%-qlwm zA$R*<0W&E;haeDŲ` 0҉{*I[g{vK;tP)"O(Y%w]Xdj9?A隔kH<{1F ̓|þӴji;QXi1,t?m=Y:WB0ƷzinJ..N%+}|MJ*ag])ˈT,)hg{ Y%@ĹlT2cߜKB roj~?wN[kkm?h)YD)ߔđ$xUS'lܞV7̖`=Ä!w v`Q$qkf,WˈbgO"Y_Z0tM%ʷĹaQTf9چg>v4%(R8 l 5-wu3:ϕ~4])GϞ=gOEb)>3jh!ulK֐Ϋ bښeMU.̲ketxM9{P.Iv+Vmd &$WO%H҄O[ɟ۱V^',j} QeBd\x ̕座B`k8]2>gIÊ};P\=^?A )BcvwqvS>}5 L,c:"3ffAh,oYuwf'6tyP 禑QKVnOÇ]LΫ tL$4WoBOq]Af?lǘWP^e;{v;J\A Q6V(7/R!f& *H5>w4Zs2m{򕘝PzRS2WLEx[\Dȵ>4B2FAA*jwW rR+GT)u/}Iy< _5;2MSĶJ\ot`KYmd; gB3T!5tL7,SQ[\k5'欍RYD&OK ' 5.. GK di0KoirlFi j> :m(߇QƱ>Q/^ƙ`q^=3} * vűe])3la)4gO9ՑTfp[+ZC߇?Ͽ *;lW%{8w94C/Ze-/M '}$QCn˼{ĞzԬ̛YH; h9<;o9d14*~5]!kL=Vƭ :ZH͔ )pTt ?  Gw\LYˣc #ِx^g{aQ I\FdR-]I44&e{n;d`lm):H:S:dH5YC S/,ddJ#gKeifObΨ$"-* `]V,(&M3aULfQ+Ϗ6y&,d\䢃pKa9[}Q`n }+7~)zNS, _OHYd)5x5~c;ѯ*1oIbWtIk53o>> Ha3>Y ò uBtK8!3ˏ4TvM@vAYGcCnZJqx8Өm5X~ze$| D6N^Q~ۿRՠǫIYeDDQ́BPKbm>)*-s̭at]E8*D8)P G:
      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1