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.

All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.

Parliament itself would not exist in its present form had people not defied the law.

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.

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

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.

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