The goal of the first International May Day celebrations was the eight-hour working day.

The fight against unfair scheduling is like the fight for a regulated work day - it's people fighting for reasonable conditions at work and to have a life, so you can have some leisure.

Before my book, the most common assessment of Eleanor Marx is "Yes, she's great but basically she's in the shadow of her father." Absolute bollocks. She fought him, she resisted, and she was not a kind of trocadateur of his ideas.

Eleanor Marx was a pragmatic person of actions and deeds and she was an organizer.

Men want to destroy the women: you've become bigger than me, people love you more, you have a public platform, that's my space you're taking up. I can't just divorce you, I have to destroy you.

We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary.

For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history.