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We will organise solidarity and raise practical support for the people of Greece; they cannot be made to pay for a crisis for which they are not responsible. Tony Benn Len McCluskey General secretary, Unite Mark Serwotka General secretary, PCS Bob Crow...
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Performers include Tony Benn and Roy Bailey with their show ‘The Writing On The Wall’. The bard of Barnsley Ian McMillan will perform alongside his son, Andrew, at City Screen. Local Dickens expert John Bowen provides an insight into the life and work...
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LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 08: Tony Benn, president of the Stop the War Coalition and former politician, addresses the crowd during the 'Antiwar Mass Assembly' organised by the Stop the War Coalition at Trafalgar Square on October 8, 2011 in London,... View Photo »
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In the old days you would have interviews when the questioner would say, 'Prime minister, would you tell us again about your latest triumphs?' That was flattery. That was not an interview at all.
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Growing up in the shadow of the South Yorkshire coalfields in the 1970s and '80s under Thatcher also had a galvanising effect. "What got me more involved in union politics was the miners' strike. Because I grew up in Chesterfield I was privileged to...
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The boycott was called in response to Bristol Omnibus Company’s refusal to employ black workers. Local Bristol MP, Tony Benn and Labour Party leader and future Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, supported the boycott. After several months the company...
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Margaret Rutherford, who was the original dotty Miss Marple, said of eccentrics that they "have their own quality of madness and that in the final analysis they will be the saints". She was talking of her cousin, Tony Benn, but Bellamy possesses a...
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Former Labour politician, Tony Benn (sitting) attends a rally in Hyde Park, during a protest organised by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), called 'The March for the Alternative,' in central London March 26, 2011. Tens of thousands of Britons protested... View Photo »
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As Tony Benn well knows, the point of having nuclear weapons is to deter people and not to use them, and I'm afraid it's just one of the many subjects where he is splendid to read but splendidly wrong.
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The Inside Story of the Meriden Workers' Co-op." A detailed "warts and all" case study of the most famous of Tony Benn's worker co-operatives that, against all the odds, survived from 1975 to 1983: a period when the UK economy was similar to that of...
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Ed Miliband spent the same period at school and University, meeting the icons of the international left in his own home, interning in Tony Benn’s basement (and not getting paid), and getting into Oxford. I’ve never asked him, but I imagine he enjoyed...
About Tony Benn
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Anthony "Tony" Neil Wedgwood Benn (born 3 April 1925), formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate, is a British socialist politician and the current President of the Stop the War Coalition. Full Article
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Former Labour politician, Tony Benn (sitting) attends a rally in Hyde Park, during a protest organised by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), called 'The March for the Alternative,' in central London March 26, 2011. Tens of thousands of Britons protested against the coalition government's...
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Former Labour politician, Tony Benn (sitting) attends a rally in Hyde Park, during a protest organised by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), called 'The March for the Alternative,' in central London March 26, 2011. Tens of thousands of Britons protested against the coalition government's...
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