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The book’s front matter details its Left Book Club membership model, publishing information, and series mission to counter austerity and promote progressive social change. The series preface positions contemporary global conditions as a new-scale parallel to the 1930s, stressing mass participation, weakened workplace organisation, and the need to relaunch the Left Book Club through accessible books for reading and discussion circles.","Syriza  \nJoin the Left Book Club  \nMembership of the Left Book Club costs just £40 a year, for which you will receive four specially commissioned or licensed titles each year, plus other members’ benefits, such as access to events, newsletters, and special offers on non-LBC titles.  \n[To join please visit www.leftbookclub.com](To join please visit www.leftbookclub.com)  \nSyriza  \nInside the Labyrinth  \nKevin Ovenden  \nForeword by Paul Mason  \nFirst published 2015 by Pluto Press  \n345 Archway Road, London N6 5AA  \n[www.plutobooks.com](www.plutobooks.com)  \nCopyright © Kevin Ovenden 2015  \nThe right of Kevin Ovenden tobe identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data  \nA catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library  \nISBN 978 0 7453 3686 2 Paperback ISBN 978 1 7837 1696 8 PDF eBook  \nISBN 978 1 7837 1698 2 Kindle eBook ISBN 978 1 7837 1697 5 EPUB eBook  \nThis book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental standards of the country of origin.  \nTypeset by Stanford DTP Services, Northampton, England Text design by Melanie Patrick  \nSimultaneously printed in the European Union and United States of America  \nDedicated to the memories of  \nPavlos Fyssas (1979–2013)  \nand  \nShahzad Luqman (1986–2013) zindabad, ζουν – they live  \nContents  \nSeries Preface viii  \nForeword by Paul Mason x  \nPreface xv  \n1. Between Things Ended and Things Begun 1  \n2. The Resisted Rise of Syriza 21  \n3. Their Austerity and Our Resistance 42  \n4. The Monstrous Legacy of Racism 65  \n5. Lost in the Labyrinth 87  \n6. Face to Face with the Deep State 104  \n7. TheMaw of the Minotaur 133  \n8. Revolt, Retreat and Rupture 150  \nNotes 178  \nAbout Philosophy Football 182  \nSeries Preface  \nThe first Left Book Club (1936–48) had 57,000 members at its peak, distributed 2 million books, and had formed 1,200 workplace and local groups engaging in cultural and political activity, including solidarity work (e.g. with Spain), political agitation (against appeasement) and much else. The LBC became an educational mass movement, remodelling British public opinion, and was thought to have been a major factor in the Labour landslide of 1945 and the construction of the welfare state. Publisher Victor Gollancz, the driving force, saw the LBC as a movement against poverty, fascism, and the growing threat of war. He aimed to resist the tide of austerity and appeasement, and to present radical ideas for progressive social change in the interests of working people. 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