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Ten Years Hard Labour

By: Chris Williamson
Narrated by: Chris Williamson
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Summary

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.

©2022 Lola Books (P)2022 Lola Books

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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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Really kept me interested throughout

The way Chris narrated his book was as passionate as his caring toward our country and its people and it kept me interested from start to finish.
Some of it I knew but thankful to have the real full story which has given me new insight into the treachery of what really took place in our Labour Party. Some things I had no idea of and frankly was shocked and it has given me a new perspective on the whole disgusting treachery, against not just one man but against what was our Labour Party.
Listening on Audible was better than reading this book for me.
Would recommend for those who want to know the truth from a man of conviction.

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Superb !

CW sets the record straight.
It made me laugh, cry, get angry and made me feel physically sick at the way he was treated. What upset me most was the lack of backbone from some MP’s and colleagues who I would have expected to have stood firm behind CW. Shame on them. My eyes are well and truly opened now.
Thanks for the book Chris , and so sorry that your career was ruined by an organised lynch mob.

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