Red Metropolis: Socialism and the Government of London

A polemical history of municipal socialism in London - and an argument for turning this capitalist capital red again.

A polemical history of municipal socialism in London — and an argument for turning this capitalist capital red again.

London is conventionally seen as merely a combination of the financial centre in the City and the centre of governmental power in Westminster, a uniquely capitalist capital city. This book is about the third London - a social democratic twentieth-century metrop...