The big question today is 'Will globalisation allow democracy to survive?' On one side we have the multinationals, the International Monetary Fund an… - Tony Benn

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.

The Peasants' Revolt came as feudalism was breaking down in Britain, just as capitalism is breaking down today. Mass unemployment, the destruction of the welfare state, the health service and comprehensive education, would not be accepted, any more than would nuclear weapons based on British soil. We will not be satisfied until there is justice in Ireland. We will not allow the House of Lords to prevent us from doing what we want to do, nor the Community in Brussels, nor American generals in the Pentagon to decide what our future can be. The only way we can change Britain and the world is when working people gather together and decide whether they will change it. When we have decided we will change it, no power on earth can stop us.

An educated, healthy & confident nation is harder to govern