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Publications

Labour and the Gulag
Russia and the Seduction of the British Left

The Labour Party welcomed the Russian Revolution in 1917: it paved the way for the birth of a socialist superpower and ushered in a new era of Soviet governance. Labour excused the Bolshevik excesses and prepared for its own revolution in Britain. In 1929, Stalin deported hundreds of thousands of men, women and children to work in labour camps. Subjected to appalling treatment, thousands died. When news of the camps leaked out in Britain, there were protests demanding the
government ban imports of timber cut by slave labourers.

The Labour government of the day dismissed mistreatment claims as Tory propaganda and blocked appeals for an inquiry. Despite the Cabinet privately acknowledging the harsh realities of the work camps, Soviet denials were publicly repeated as fact. One Labour minister even defended them as part of ‘a remarkable economic experiment’.

Labour and the Gulag explains how Britain’s Labour Party was  seduced by the promise of a socialist utopia and enamoured of a Russian Communist system it sought to emulate. It reveals the moral compromises Labour made, and how it turned its back on the victims in order to further its own political agenda.

 

 

‘The best book of British political history for years.’
Edward Lucas


‘A splendid book, an incredibly powerful
indictment of a generation of the Left.’
Andrew Roberts


‘A masterpiece.’
Tim Montgomerie


‘A scholarly and passionate indictment of Labour's complicity

with Soviet oppression. An important book on how a

'progressive' approach to foreign policy can conceal systematic murder on a vast scale.’
Lord Maurice Glasman

Blue Labour


‘A compelling work of history - at once scrupulous, angry and humane.
Told with a masterly eye for detail and an unflinching commitment to the truth.’

Michael Gove 

TITLES IN PREPARATION

What's Wrong with Marx?

A examination and critique, drawn extensively from their own writings, of the corrosive political ideas of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky
(Due 2022)

Tapesty of Tears - Journeys Into the Gulag

The history of the notorious Siberian Arctic Gulag camps of Norilsk, and the stories of those who were sent there

(Due 2023)

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ARTICLES

Corbyn’s road map to a communist Britain

The Labour leader’s inner circle have detailed plans to turn the UK into a hardline socialist state which ruthlessly suppresses its opponents

Standpoint, 28 January, 2019

The chilling truth of how Corbyn's Marxists would destroy Britain

....as revealed by the Shadow Chancellor in an ominous letter to the Treasury 

Daily Mail, 26 March 2019

It's not all that farfetched to compare Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party to Stalin

(Just a reminder - article writers don't choose headlines. Editors do!)

Daily Telegraph, 7 November 2019

Moral crusade – or extremist front?

Thousands have marched for Black Lives Matter without realising the movement’s revolutionary aims

The Critic, 20 August 2020

Labour and Lenin and ever since…

While today we know much about the Nazi concentration camps, there is little awareness in the West of the vast extent of its Soviet equivalent – the gulag, the prison…

Unherd,  29 November 2017

How Critical Race Theory captured the Church

The CofE anti-racism report is heavily influenced by subversive ideology

Unherd,  21 April 2021

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