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Oct 4, 2024 · In the great revolutionary year of 1968, Tony Benn was a respectable Labour minister in his forties, and he was restless. While new social movements were shaking up Britain and much of the world, Westminster politics seemed stuck. It was time, he decided, for a different approach.
5 days ago · As author of the hounded and marginalised Labour left, The Socialist League in the 1930s (2005), yes, these five politicians, (Tony Benn, Ken Livingstone, John McDonnell, Jeremy Corbyn and Diane Abbott), likewise have failed to shift the balance of power and wealth to working people.
Oct 3, 2024 · Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn (3 April 1925 – 14 March 2014), known between 1960 and 1963 as Viscount Stansgate, was a British Labour Party politician and diarist who served as a Cabinet minister in the 1960s and 1970s. He was the Member of Parliament for Bristol South East and Chesterfield for 47 of the 51 years between 1950 and 2001.
Oct 9, 2024 · Benn, the patrician politician who successfully renounced an aristocratic title, has been dead for more than a decade, though his eloquent advocacy of a radical reformism still inspires younger generations and haunts surviving figures on Labour’s right, not least Tony Blair, who revealed an envious admiration for Benn’s oratorical powers.
1 day ago · Foot presented himself as a compromise candidate, capable – unlike Healey – of uniting the party, [32] which at the time was riven by the grassroots left-wing insurgency centred around Tony Benn. The Bennites were demanding revenge for what they considered to be the betrayals of the Callaghan government .
Sep 23, 2024 · Tony Benn’s exposure of corporate power stimulated thought on the left of the Labour Party about how to challenge it on a global level. We realised that traditional policies of public ownership were necessary but not sufficient.
3 days ago · Six candidates stood in the first ballot; in order of votes they were: Michael Foot, James Callaghan, Roy Jenkins, Tony Benn, Denis Healey and Anthony Crosland. In the third ballot, on 5 April, Callaghan defeated Foot in a parliamentary vote of 176 to 137, and served as prime minister until May 1979.
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