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- English
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Ten Years Hard Labour
About this book
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 ā free of his Labourist clutches ā 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 ā on the left and the right ā 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsementes
- Dedication
- Title
- Copyright
- About the Author
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- List of main acronyms
- CHAPTER ONE: The starting gun
- CHAPTER TWO: New Labourās ghost
- CHAPTER THREE: āRed Edā?
- CHAPTER FOUR: A disaster waiting to happen
- CHAPTER FIVE: Attack of the gammons
- CHAPTER SIX: A very amateurish coup
- CHAPTER SEVEN: Reality check
- CHAPTER EIGHT: Manufacturing a ācrisisā
- CHAPTER NINE: Back into the lionās den
- CHAPTER TEN: āThough cowards flinch and traitors sneerā
- CHAPTER ELEVEN: Free agent
- CHAPTER TWELVE: Beginning of the end
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Betrayal
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN: āThe silence of our friendsā
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN: A Kafkaesque nightmare
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Rank cowardice
- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Fighting back
- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Total war
- CHAPTER NINETEEN: The fix
- CHAPTER TWENTY: Judgment day
- CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: Turkeys voting for Christmas
- CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: Independence
- CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: Road to perdition
- CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: The āantisemitismā agenda
- CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: āIf you donāt fight, you will always loseā
- CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: Making the revolution
- Appendix
- Notes
- Name index