Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.

The unions may continue to decline, but if they do, it'll be their fault.

Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.

Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished.

We have to struggle against the conservatives from all sides, not only the right-wingers, but also the left-wing conservatives who don't want to change anything.

Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship.

We will have to create an avant-garde.... We could have a Union for the enlarged Europe, and a Federation for the avant-garde.