Street Fighting: A Memoir of the 1970s

by George Galloway

George Galloway was born into poverty in a slum Irish immigrant quarter of the Scottish city of Dundee. He began the 1970s running wild in a gang - the Lochee Fleet - and ended the decade, as most people said, running the city itself. In subsequent decades he would rarely be out of the news but this personal memoir of the 1970s goes back to where he started.

Shocking from the start, Galloway's memoir interlaces his own young life into the most turbulent decade in British history, film, music, football, strikes, war in Ireland - indeed, war throughout the world. To understand the 1970s is to understand George Galloway. And vice versa.

Galloway is already writing the sequel to this volume: The Thatcher Years of the 1980s, which he describes as Britain's hangover, a hangover so bad that Britain almost died.

George Galloway; like him or loath him. You'd be lying if you said he wasn't interesting. And you know it.

Unknown Binding

First published March 12, 2018

About the author

George Galloway is a British politician, author, and broadcaster, who has been a Member of Parliament (MP) since 1987 and is known for his anti-war views. He was a Labour Party MP for Glasgow Hillhead, and for Glasgow Kelvin, before his expulsion from the party in October 2003, and his subsequently becoming a founding member of Respect. He served as the Respect MP for the Bethnal Green and Bow constituency (2005 - 2010), and and for Bradford West (2012 - 2015).

Galloway is considered to be quite a controversial politician and is perhaps best known for his vigorous campaign to both overturn economic sanctions against Iraq in the 1990s and early 2000s, and to avert the 2003 invasion of that country, as well as for his speech before the then President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, in which he appeared to praise the Iraqi dictator, although Galloway actively opposed the regime until the United States-led Gulf War in 1991 and has always stated that he was addressing the Iraqi people.

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Reviews

[Stuart · Rating 5 out of 5]

I used to be a fan of George Galloway, though not so much recently. This book came up on my recommendations and especially since it was read by him I snapped it up.

It was really good listen, nobody speaks more eloquently and enthusiastically about George Galloway than himself.

I learnt a lot from this book. I lived through the 1970s as kid. He was a young adult so the explanation of the history and background of all the minor intrigues was fascinating, even if it was written from his point of view. At least it was interesting!

Only George Galloway can bring you close to tears while narrating the Labour Party's loss to Margaret Thatcher in the General Election that brought her to power. It's like Christopher Lee reciting a Tolkienian epic tale of the defeat of the good at the hands of the evil forces of Sauron. I was really moved by it.

A great read even just to understand what makes a controversial figure like him tick.

[Jack · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow what a life that the legend George Galloway has lived and this volume is only just the beginning of his stories.

The audiobook brilliantly narrated by him made this even more thrilling

Looking forward to the next volume!