The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day.
Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain.
What I've said in the past is that I want the Labour Party to approach this matter on the basis of unity.
If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong.
Ni dieu ni maître! (Neither God nor master) [Feminist and labour slogan translated to 'No gods, no masters']
Our recent 5-year labour agreements, in Canada as well as the United States, are based upon experience, logic and principle rather than on pressure, propaganda and force.
And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.
For six and a half years, I had responsibility for leading the Labour party policy on education and delivering on our promise of improved opportunities for all our children.
I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.
But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.
But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.
The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious.
It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.
We need dynamic and thriving businesses and a skilled and adaptable labour force to produce competitiveness and prosperity.
Labour day is a great American holiday that people celebrate by going out and buying products made in China
The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists.
The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.
Any fool can wash himself, but every wise man knows that it is an unnecessary labour, for nature will quickly reduce him to a natural and healthy dirtiness again.
Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
After an unremitting and severe labour of two days, we returned to our old encampment with the loss of some of my horses, and my men excessively fatigued.
Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.
