''I'm Not the Only One'' is a 2004 political autobiography by the British politician

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. The book details his political beginnings in the Labour Party in

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, his opposition to the

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, support for the Palestinian cause and the founding of the

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Reception

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in ''

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'' described the book as a "strange, repetitive little manifesto". The book was also criticised by

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in ''

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'' who, apart from labelling Galloway an apologist for dictators, wrote that Galloway has an "enduring ability to believe in transparent fictions". Jim Horton in '' Socialism Today'' was more positive, but wrote that in ''I'm Not the Only One'' "there is hardly a scintilla of a socialist programme".

References

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