David KoganProtest and Power
The Battle for the Labour Party
The historian David Kogan has worked in the UK and US media as both a journalist and a senior executive at the BBC, Reuters Television, Granada, Reel Enterprises which he founded, Wasserman Media Group and Magnum Photos as CEO. His first book, The Battle for the Labour Party remains essential reading about the Labour party. He lives in London.
Preface
Interviewees 1981 and 2018
Abbreviations
Part One: Protest; the Rise and Fall of the New Left
1. Vladimir's Plan
2. The Years that Changed Everything
3. The High-Water Mark - The Benn Campaign and its Aftermath
4. The Reaction and the Response
Part Two: The Counter-revolution
5. The Dream Team
6. The Wilderness Years Begin
Part Three: Power; the New Labour Revolution
7. The New Generation
8. New Labour Takes Control
Part Four: New Labour; the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
9. What was New Labour?
10. The Good
11. The Bad and the Ugly
12. Conflict
13. Opposition - The Left, the Unions and the Media
14. The Beginning of the End
15. Gordon Brown - The End of New Labour
16. Judging New Labour
Part Five: The Miliband Interregnum; Between Power and Protest
17. The Last Electoral College
18. Where are the Milibandites?
19. Falkirk and Collins
20. The Road to 2015
21. The 2015 General Election
Part Six: The Four Summers of Jeremy Corbyn; the Summer of Love
22. The Establishment
23. The Insurgents
24. Throwing it Away
Part Seven: The Four Summers of Jeremy Corbyn; the Summer of Redemption
25. From Swarm to Momentum
26. Learning on the Job
27. The Referendum
28. The Chicken Coup
29. The Importance of 2016
Part Eight: The Four Summers of Jeremy Corbyn; the Summer of Fun
30. The Apotheosis - The 2017 General Election
31. Consolidation
Part Nine: The Four Summers of Jeremy Corbyn; the Long, Hot Summer
32. The Baggage of the Past
33. The Dialogue of the Deaf
34. The Wheel Turns
Part Ten: Brexit and Beyond
35. The Shadow of Brexit
36. The Fault Lines Exposed
37. Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Index
