The peace movement didn't stop the Iraq but I think that Blair would not be able to go along and support an Iranian war.

There is no connection between imperialism and democracy. I mean when we ran an Empire which we did when I was born, there was no democracy anywhere.

A faith is something you die for; a doctrine is something you kill for; there is all the difference in the world.

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.

Although socialism is widely held by the establishment to be outdated, the things that are most popular in British society today are little pockets of socialism, where areas of life have been excluded from the crude operation of market forces and are protected for the benefit of the community

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

It would be as unthinkable to try to construct the Labour Party without Marx as it would to be to establish university faculties of astronomy,anthropology or psychology without permitting the study of Copernicus, Darwin or Freud, and still expect such faculties to be taken seriously