My father still reads the dictionairy every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words

The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day.

Only a fool wants a confrontation and only a fool wants a strike.

My father still reads the dictionairy every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words

I have never been an idealist - that implies you aren't going to achieve something.

You may see the emergence of a new political party from the body of the trade union movement which represents a very clear-cut socialist alternative policy and which gives expression to the views of the trade union movement in parliament.

The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.