Karl Radek Quotes

I came out of the womb into the Labour movement.

We've got to stand up for what we believe in as a labour movement. And that means the party's membership needs to be even bigger so it becomes a genuinely mass organisation.

Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society.

It may sound corny in a cynical age but literally generations of our people have given much of their lives to establishing and cherishing the Labour party because they believed what the party told them when they joined.

If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.

We can't fool ourselves that they will ever be enough to overthrow Capitalism. If we're serious about that we need to organise ourselves in our workplaces and communities, making the links with other workers internationally.

Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism.

I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

We are all in the Labour party because we want the Labour party to be a vehicle for social change. There is a thirst for debate in the party, and all those who have joined haven't joined without a purpose.

I can't talk fellowship to you who are gathered here. Too much blood has been spilled. I know from my experience it is up to the working people to save themselves. The only way they can save themselves is by a strong working-class movement.

The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life.

I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals.

We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.

Labour is at its best when it remembers its moral fury.

This party [the Progressive Party] comes from the grass roots. It has grown from the soil of the people's hard necessities.

The formation of the smallest worker’s organization will for the history writers of the future be more important than the battle of Sadova

People joined the Communist Party because it was doing something. It was fighting Fascism.

I want a credible, strong Labour Party.

If change is to come, it must come from the working class. That's why telling their story is important. That's why knowing our history is important.

What the underdog socialist has forgotten is that the story of the left ought to be a narrative of hope and progress.

Jeremy Corbyn became the leader of the Labour party, and suddenly there was a reason to get involved.

People think that we're engaged with identity politics. The truth is that we're doing what the labor movement has always done - organizing people who are at the bottom.

The Labour party is mainly full of amazing people who care so much about equality and social justice they are probably a bit of a bore at a family do.

Labour is the party for the many.