Ten Years Hard Labour
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Ten Years Hard Labour

  1. 406 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

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 – 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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsementes
  3. Dedication
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. About the Author
  7. CONTENTS
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Preface
  10. List of main acronyms
  11. CHAPTER ONE: The starting gun
  12. CHAPTER TWO: New Labour’s ghost
  13. CHAPTER THREE: “Red Ed”?
  14. CHAPTER FOUR: A disaster waiting to happen
  15. CHAPTER FIVE: Attack of the gammons
  16. CHAPTER SIX: A very amateurish coup
  17. CHAPTER SEVEN: Reality check
  18. CHAPTER EIGHT: Manufacturing a “crisis”
  19. CHAPTER NINE: Back into the lion’s den
  20. CHAPTER TEN: “Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer”
  21. CHAPTER ELEVEN: Free agent
  22. CHAPTER TWELVE: Beginning of the end
  23. CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Betrayal
  24. CHAPTER FOURTEEN: “The silence of our friends”
  25. CHAPTER FIFTEEN: A Kafkaesque nightmare
  26. CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Rank cowardice
  27. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Fighting back
  28. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Total war
  29. CHAPTER NINETEEN: The fix
  30. CHAPTER TWENTY: Judgment day
  31. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: Turkeys voting for Christmas
  32. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: Independence
  33. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: Road to perdition
  34. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: The “antisemitism” agenda
  35. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: “If you don’t fight, you will always lose”
  36. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: Making the revolution
  37. Appendix
  38. Notes
  39. Name index

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