I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this.

If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job.

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?

There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production.

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.

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.