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September 23, 2022

Season 1

An investigation based on the largest leak of documents in British political history. The Labour Files examines thousands of internal documents, emails and social media messages to reveal how senior officials in one of the two parties of government in the UK ran a coup by stealth against the elected leader of the party. The program will show how officials set about silencing, excluding and expelling its own members in a ruthless campaign to destroy the chances of Jeremy Corbyn becoming Britain’s prime minister. Candidates for key political roles were blocked and constituency groups suspended as the party’s central office sought to control the elected leadership.

01. The Purge

How bureaucrats in Britain's Labour party crush democracy in its own ranks to weaken its elected leader and silence the party membership.

1h 14min
September 23, 2022

02. The Crisis

The disturbing truth behind the Labour Party's so-called "anti-Semitism crisis" that helps destroy the party leader and silence debate on Israel and Palestine.

1h 24min
September 25, 2022

03. The Hierarchy

How the senior ranks of Britain's Labour Party create a hierarchy of racism by prioritising anti Semitism over Islamophobia and other forms of discrimination.

55min
September 27, 2022

04. The Spying Game

In the final episode of The Labour Files – The Spying Game – Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit tells the sinister story of how The Labour Party used hacked data from a journalist to investigate their own members who were critical of the party.

21min
September 30, 2022

05. The Forde Response

For the first time, independent barrister Martin forde KC speaks about his report on racism and factionalism in the British Labour Party.

13min
March 16, 2023