Publications

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