There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?

What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good.

There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency.

Now we are flying off into outer space, there is no clear curb on what can be done in the name of the economy.

Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.

I was recently looking at what they can actually do to reduce consumption of petrol. It would be quite possible to build automobiles out of carbon fibre that would be just as strong, weigh 10 times less and consume 10 times less petrol.