I do not want to be associated with those that are willing to support undermining the basic human rights that socialists have fought and sacrificed themselves to secure and protect over generations.

As the world changes, the way we work changes with it.

A fairer system bases itself on actual outcomes - if you earn more you pay more, through progressive income tax.

Airport expansion is just one example of how our planet is being plundered for profit.

No cause is worth the loss of a child's life.

If the government is injecting public money, it should also take the right to oversee board appointments, executive pay, and future business operations.

If we are to depression-proof our economy we may need to pay more attention to the radical ideas and policies of those who witnessed the misery inflicted on so many during the 1930s.

The Tories have made a complete mess of Brexit negotiations.

You've got to demonstrate you're capable of developing policies but, more importantly, you're capable of implementing them.

Governments usually end not with a bang but with a whimper, as the Conservatives learned in the 1990s. Support and authority erodes over time until there is a final collapse of support and pivotal electoral shift.

Very clearly, government investment can and should be used to support economic growth.

When you're in the depths of a recession, that isn't the time when people want to challenge the system, they're too busy trying to survive. It's when they're told we're coming out of a recession, growth is returning, and they're not seeing the benefits of it, or they're not seeing them quick enough.

There are some lines in the sand you just do not cross. Undermining basic civil liberties by locking people up for long periods without charge is one of them.

I have a political philosophy by which I judge political events. It's called socialism, which at its core is about achieving equality, justice and peace through democracy.

We want to be absolutely clear to the people what we are about. No backroom deals whatsoever and we're not going to be held back by any other political parties.

Well organised displays of spontaneous support is one of the New Labour machine's specialities.

Going to university is, and should be, so much more than a mechanical process of grinding out a degree qualification for a pre-determined career path.

Britain has moved on. It is a radically different country from that which shaped New Labour.

Many argue that graduates earn a 'premium' because of their education, and should have to pay their way. I agree, and that's why I've always advocated a progressive taxation system - so if people do receive large salaries, they pay more income tax.

The concept of loyalty to the leader is set firmly in the ethos of the Labour party.

I would like Leveson Part Two. I think Leveson was a good exercise. That is why the Tories blocked it, because it was beginning to develop more accountability within the media itself.

Out of the suffering of the 1930s, Britain built a civilising society, based in large part on the important lesson that unemployment is rarely the fault of individual malingering but the structural consequence of governments allowing the free market to rule our lives.

It was inevitable and understandable that the election of Jeremy Corbyn would be a massive culture shock for some sections of the party, especially some members of the parliamentary Labour party.

When governments fail us, what else can people do except take to direct action? When corporate power can so dominate government policy-making that whole communities are placed at risk, where else can people turn?

We need to promote employment through investment in major public works schemes to meet the U.K.'s needs.

Producing more reams of detailed policies that have marginal and limited effects on our society is futile.

New Labour has systematically alienated section after section of the coalition we need to win and retain power.

I'm a plain speaker.

The illegal 2003 invasion had little to do with liberating Iraqis from Saddam Hussein's dictatorship. Instead, the real freedoms and benefits were destined to go to corporations like Halliburton and others that stood to gain from the privatisation of the formerly state-owned Iraqi economy.

Politicians have patronised and talked down to us all when it comes to our economy, but ordinary working people have to manage on incomes significantly lower than the likes of George Osborne and his friends in the City. They could teach the bankers and many commentators a thing or two about managing a budget responsibly.

I'm a Marxist.

Tightening up border and immigration controls go nowhere in addressing the underlying causes of terrorism in our society and in our world.

New Labour has systematically alienated section after section of our natural supporters - teachers, health workers, students, pensioners, public service workers, trade unionists and people committed to the environment, civil liberties and peace.

I've always honestly and openly said I believe in a united Ireland, but the point was to try and get to a united Ireland without the violence.

Ministers may not be responsible for administrative errors, but they are responsible for major policy blunders.

I'm from the north. You can take the boy out of the north but you can't take the north out of the boy.

Labour will only survive in government if we can restore the sense of mission upon which it was founded.

Democratic government requires the consent of the governed.

If we need more demand in the economy then protect people in work and raise the incomes of those on low incomes who need to spend, such as the low paid, pensioners and families with children.

There'll be creative business leaders but actually, when it comes down to it, they can't do anything unless they're part of a collective. Unless they've got that wealth creator, that engineer and that work person, that skilled person at the bench to fulfil that idea... they're nothing.

Millions of people feel ignored by the political establishment.

The plundering for profit of the world's natural resources has threatened the very sustainability of the planet.

If bitter party name-calling turns people off then smear politics just destroys all credibility in the aims of politicians, the role of political parties and the political process itself.

You can't change the world through the parliamentary system.

It may sound corny in a cynical age but literally generations of our people have given much of their lives to establishing and cherishing the Labour party because they believed what the party told them when they joined.

We have to face up to the fact that without the armed uprising in 1916 Britain would not have withdrawn from southern Ireland.

The interests of big corporations have so permeated government that its major decisions are indistinguishable from the boardroom demands of the leading companies in each commercial sector.

What Gramsci is all about is hegemony: you win the battle of ideas and it dominates.

The arrogant view that young people don't count because they don't vote has thankfully been smashed for ever.

Our objectives are socialist. That means an irreversible shift in the balance of power and wealth in favour of working people.