I wouldn't vote for Ken Livingstone if he were running for mayor of Toytown.

Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things.

The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing.

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.

I wouldn't vote for Ken Livingstone if he were running for mayor of Toytown.