Monday 4th November 5.30pm Gregor Gall, Mick Lynch. The Making & the Unmaking of a Working Class Hero?
Recording of the seminar, with code to get Gregor Gall’s book at a special seminar price
‘Mick Lynch broke through into the public consciousness in the summer of 2022 as a ‘working-class hero’ in the fight against the cost-of-living crisis. He was able to generalise out of his members’ sectional disputes in a way that other union leaders were not. He was in the right place at the right time saying the right things but was he doing the right things? This talk, based upon my book (https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526173096/), will be a celebration and critique of Lynch as a union general secretary and social democrat, where his lack of strategic planning and support for the current Labour Party emerge as his two-sided Achille’s heel’.
The seminar was part of the autumn theme of working class leadership and the left. Some more points on this will be posted shortly.
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