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THE INSIDE STORY OF THE MILIBAND AND CORBYN YEARS, AND HOW THEY LED TO THE LABOUR LEFT'S DEMISE 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…mehr

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THE INSIDE STORY OF THE MILIBAND AND CORBYN YEARS, AND HOW THEY LED TO THE LABOUR LEFT'S DEMISE 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. "Williamson's analysis will be contentious and his trenchant views make uncomfortable reading. But for those who want to see a socialist future, or anyone who has ever voted Labour and wants to see it do better, this is essential reading." - Ken Loach, filmmaker "Chris Williamson is a compelling and committed socialist and was Jeremy Corbyn's most loyal supporter in Parliament: that is why he had to be sabotaged at all costs. … This book is a fascinating account of his struggle and the way forward." - Alexei Sayle, actor, author, stand-up comedian "Chris Williamson's 10 Years Hard Labour is an eye-opening, and at times, infuriating, insider's account of the coordinated political assault on the British Left that took place inside a party that was once its home." - Max Blumenthal, author, editor and founder of The Grayzone "The Left needs an honest account and reckoning of the rise and fall of 'Corbynism' - and I hope this book is start of that much needed self-criticism and honest debate." - Salma Yaqoob, peace activist "[Williamson] offers a searing indictment of the cannibalistic witch hunt that libelled Corbyn and others with false accusations of anti Semitism to cleanse the party of the Left. This is a necessary corrective history for British audiences and a warning for the Left in all Western democracies." - Rania Khalek, journalist, Breakthrough News

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Chris Williamson was born in Derby into a working class family in 1956. He left school at 15 to work in a factory, before training as a bricklayer. He has also been a market trader, a social worker, and a welfare rights officer. He joined the Labour Party in 1976 and is a lifelong socialist, trade unionist, and animal rights campaigner. He has been a Labour councillor, council leader, and an MP. He was a Shadow Minister under Ed Miliband and Jeremy Corbyn, and, from 2017 onwards, he was Corbyn's most vocal supporter inside the Parliamentary Labour Party. He was suspended from the party in February 2019 and, after being briefly reinstated, was re-suspended in June 2019. Later, the High Court declared the second suspension to be unlawful, but a third suspension was imposed. He resigned from the party after Labour's National Executive Committee prevented him from standing as a Labour candidate in the 2019 general election.