Ten Years Hard Labour
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- £16.99
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- £16.99
Publisher Description
For 42 years, Chris Williamson was a Labour Party member. In 2010, he was elected to Parliament to represent his home town. However, in 2019, he was unceremoniously suspended from the party after being subjected to a smear campaign, and he later resigned in protest at the betrayal.
In this forensic memoir – free of his Labourist clutches – Williamson provides a unique ringside view. As well as lifting the lid on the amateurish politics-by-focus-groups under Ed Miliband, Williamson exposes some of the major events that created and deepened Labour's 'antisemitism crisis' under Jeremy Corbyn.
In his mission to set the record straight on numerous misreported events, Williamson names and shames the individuals – on the left and the right – whom he holds responsible for delivering his former party back into the hands of New Labourism under Sir Keir Starmer. To understand the existential crisis facing socialists in Britain today, Williamson's account of recent Labour history is indispensable.
Customer Reviews
Ten Years Hard Labour
This is a brilliant account of the Miliband and Corbyn eras in the Labour Party. It provides a detailed analysis about how the Corbyn project lost its way and ultimately failed to deliver on its early promise and ended up paving the way for Labour’s hard right neoliberal minority to seize complete control of the Party and eject anti-imperialist socialists who challenge the hegemony of the neoliberal war machine. This book is essential reading for all socialists.