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An evening with Len McCluskey

Wednesday 9th February 2022
18:30 - 20:30 at Waterstones, Liverpool

Always Red (Hardback)

Join us for an evening with Len McCluskey as he talks about his new autobiography, Always Red. The talk will be in-conversation with Labour MP, Dan Carden.

Len McCluskey is the standout trade unionist of his era. Head of the giant Unite union for more than a decade, he is a unique and powerful figure on the political stage.

In this major autobiography, McCluskey throws back the curtains on life at the top of the Labour movement - with explosive revelations about his dealings with Keir Starmer, the behind-the-scenes battles of the Corbyn era, his secret Brexit negotiations with Theresa May's government, the spectacular bust-up with his former friend Tom Watson, and his tortuous relationship with Ed Miliband.

McCluskey is no run-of-the-mill trade unionist. Fiercely political, unflinchingly left wing, he is a true workers' leader. His politics were formed in Liverpool at a time of dock strikes, the Beatles, and the May 1968 revolution in Paris. An eyewitness to the Hillsborough tragedy, he recounts in harrowing detail searching for his son.

Witty and sharp, McCluskey delivers a powerful intervention, issuing a manifesto for the future of trade unionism and urging the left not to lose sight of class politics.

A central player in a tumultuous period of British political history, McCluskey's account is an essential-and entertaining-record of our times.

Waterstones, Liverpool

Wednesday 9th February 2022
18:30 - 20:30

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