Rule one: everybody must agree
The real purpose of the pro-Europe alliance is to stifle democracy, believes Tony BennThe announcement that "new Labour" is now totally committed to the single currency and that public money is to be...
View ArticleUnder Bevan, we stayed up all night to end the means test; now, we stay up...
Next year I shall be celebrating the 50th anniversary of my election to the House of Commons, but recently it has been hard not to draw the contrast between the Labour government of then and the one...
View ArticleApocalypse now
Iraq Under Siege: the deadly impact of sanctions and warEdited by Anthony Arnove <em>Pluto Press,This book charges the American and British governments with genocide against the people of Iraq, a...
View ArticleBenn's warning to Labour
Veteran politician and campaigner Tony Benn warns moves afoot at this year's conference to shave yetThe great theme for the Labour Party now is the need for participation and a greater involvement of...
View ArticleTony Benn: The flowers of the Arab spring grow from buds of free information
The message of Tahrir Square and WikiLeaks, writes Tony Benn, is that the maxim "Information is power" is more true than ever. Civilisations are remembered by the state of technology at the time. We...
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We should abolish the House of Lords, not reform it
Labour should completely reject the coalition's proposals.Peers sit in the chamber of the House of Lords. Photograph: Getty Images. The House of Lords is a medieval relic from a time when land...
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Tony Benn: A fight for common sense
In a piece originally published in the New Statesman on 31 March 1961, Tony Benn explains the decision to renounce his peerage.Pipe dream: a 1980 portrait of Benn by Ralph Steadman. Despite all the...
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