To make history — to change the actual course of world events — is intoxicating, inspiring, and life-transforming. - David McNally

Common wealth is in the process of being transferred from the public domain to the private sector.

In many respects, the Second World War was a continuation of the First, a conflict triggered by the mismatch between industrial power and imperial reach.

Once capitalist classes learn to live with unions — which they generally do reluctantly, only after efforts to crush them have failed — they then attempt to co-opt organized labour. They do so by courting a "special relationship" with union leaders who, as their organizations become larger and more complex, typically assume the role of full time union functionaries.