When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War.
I was working from a very early age.
All fixed capital, not only in the first instance, as is generally admitted, but in every stage of society, at every period in the history of man, is the creation of labour …
I didn't call for a ballot at the start of the miners' strike in 1984. I'll regret that until my dying day.
Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General.
The social relations of capitalism have penetrated slowly into all spheres of life to make wage labour the general condition of existence only in fairly recent times.
Many of those who helped to lay the foundations of the trade union movement were men who had been through the experience of Socialism and found their way to sounder policies.
there is nothing more American than the trade-union movement.
We stand in the centre ground of the Labour party and our traditions. The policies we are advocating go right back to the beginning.
