Labour Movement Quotes

Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital.

The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.

Labor is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission of emancipating the workers of the world from the thraldom of the ages is as certain of ultimate realization as is the setting of the sun.

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

Where I come from, from a very different point of view, it's a Labour heartland, it's a trade union heartland, and I'll have a very personal campaign against me there.

The style of politics that Damian McBride represents has been discredited, and Labour has moved on.

Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century.

The labor movement is organized upon a principle that the strong shall help the weak.

The job of the Scottish Labour Party is to represent working people and represent Scotland.

Jeremy Corbyn's election was the most hopeful thing since the Labour Party began. He's the first Labour leader who's ever stood on the picket line along with workers.

With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.

The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists.

The Clarion will convert England to Socialism in seven years. British working classes are not fit for Socialism yet.

I make no apology for saying that in the East End of London a new party of labour, with a small L, is being born

You may see the emergence of a new political party from the body of the trade union movement which represents a very clear-cut socialist alternative policy and which gives expression to the views of the trade union movement in parliament.

The setting of 'Billy Elliot' is the British miners' strike of 1984-85, about which the average American playgoer knows absolutely nothing.

All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.

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

The clash between capital and labour, between those seeking to maximise profit and those with only their toil to sell, was the driving force for the creation of the trade unions in the 19th century.

British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.

Working people vote!

I've been going to Labour party meeting for over 50 years.

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

A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action.

I had the good fortune to be thrown unexpectedly into something called the Labour Research Unit - a little known organisation set up to assist the fledgling labour movement. It was not a company, nor a statutory board, nor a government department - in fact it did not exist at all as a legal entity. Thus in slightly unorthodox circumstances I became part of that struggle.