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“Our presence on this Earth is like being shipwrecked and sailing together in a lifeboat. You can either sell what food there is to the rich so they survive and then generate fights over it, or you can share it out. It isn\u2019t just a moral decision but a practical one. There is no shortage of food in the world simply a shortage of money with which to buy it.\u201d – Tony Benn<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

The entire interview below is republished with the permission of Tony Wardle<\/a><\/span> – it is\u00a0taken from Viva!\u2019s<\/em> supporters\u2019 magazine, Viva!LIFE<\/em>, issue 31, spring 2006 –\u00a0also here<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

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<\/span>There is now new hope in the UK –<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n

1) Democratic Socialist<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0Jeremy Corbyn<\/a><\/span> is leading the UK Labour Party – almost teetotal (alcohol free) and a vegetarian – Jeremy was ‘trained’ by Tony Benn.<\/h4>\n
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Tony Benn and Jeremy Corbyn – source<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

Every Sunday for many years, Corbyn would make a pilgrimage to the Holland Park home of Tony Benn. In cahoots with Ed Miliband\u2019s father, the Marxist author Ralph Miliband<\/a><\/span>, Benn would assemble interesting and sympathetic thinkers on the left to join what they called the Independent Left Corresponding Society<\/em> to talk about matters of the day. John McDonnell MP<\/a><\/span> said: \u201cThey would discuss everything under the sun. Jeremy was very close to Tony right up until the end.\u201d source<\/a><\/span><\/h4>\n

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2) Democratic Socialist<\/strong>\u00a0Kerry McCarthy<\/a><\/span> is the UK Shadow Farming Minister – vegan.<\/h4>\n
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Kerry McCarthy Tweeting – Someone has left roses by Tony Benn on my office wall. @hilarybennmp – https:\/\/twitter.com\/kerrymp\/status\/596296901877706752 source<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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3) Democratic Socialist<\/strong>\u00a0Hilary Benn<\/a><\/span> is the UK Shadow Foreign Secretary –\u00a0teetotaller (alcohol free) and a vegetarian – he is Caroline & Tony Benn’s lad.<\/h4>\n
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Tony Benn with his son, Hilary, in 2007. Photograph: Antonio Olmos<\/p><\/div>\n

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Our Ernest Bell Library<\/a><\/span>\u00a0has a huge and growing collection of early socialist literature \/ related items.<\/h4>\n

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<\/span>Let us drift back to 2006 & visit\u00a0Tony Benn –<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n

Anthony Neil Wedgwood “Tony” Benn<\/a>\u00a0– he became a vegetarian in 1970, for ethical reasons, and remained so for the rest of his life. He left us last year – (3 April 1925 \u2013 14 March 2014).<\/h4>\n

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<\/span>From 2006 –<\/span><\/h4>\n

~ Tony Benn would argue, I\u2019m sure, that his beliefs are based on truths. If something can be proved then you have to act on it, one way or another, if you are to retain your integrity. So when, 26 years ago, his teenage son Hilary<\/a> <\/span>explained with great conviction that impoverishment in the developing world was directly linked to meat eating, Tony and Caroline<\/a><\/span> immediately joined their son in giving up meat and have stuck with it ever since.<\/h4>\n

<\/span>Hilary was obviously pushing at a half-open door because his father was already horrified by animal suffering and from the age of six or so had attended antivivisection rallies in Trafalgar Square. Hilary Benn is now, of course, a minister in the Labour Government and the third generation in the family to have sat in the Cabinet. As Secretary of State for International Development, he is probably the first minister ever in this position to fully understand the links between meat eating and starvation.<\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>He is, though, far more mainstream in his politics than his father and I made passing reference to this. Tony remained silent and a tiny smile tweaked the corner of his mouth. It seemed to say: \u201cHe\u2019ll learn.\u201d Tony Benn is obviously extremely proud of his son.<\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>Having been made aware of the need for it, I have never lost sight of my vegetarianism. Unquestioning brutality like slaughter and capital punishment does corrupt you and is a blot on the civilizing of society. Such positions reflect on the values of a society. I am particularly revolted by religious slaughter but the slaughter of all animals is barbaric.\u00a0 Why breed animals simply to kill and eat them? How is it different to killing people? ~<\/span><\/h4>\n

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<\/span>The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr Benn<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n

<\/span>The 2006 Article & Interview in full – Tony Wardle talks to Tony Benn \u2013 politician, vegetarian, saviour and \u2018scarey bogeyman\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

<\/span>In 1961, newly discharged from National Service, I (Tony Wardle) walked down Fleet Street knocking on doors, determined to gain a foothold in journalism \u2013 and succeeded. Okay, it wasn\u2019t one of the big titles that dominated the street in those days \u2013 the Mail, Express and Telegraph\u2013 in fact it was an obscure trade paper called The Cabinet Maker, owned by a company called Benn Bros. But it was a start.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>A gang of us young hopefuls used to rub shoulders with the big boys as we polished our drinking skills in the journo\u2019s pubs. One of our number was the chairman\u2019s nephew \u2013 a Benn himself. Once, when the conversation got around to a distant relative of his, Tony Benn, he leant towards me conspiratorially across the pint glasses, dropped his voice and almost tapped his nose with his forefinger: \u201cHe\u2019s barmy, you know!\u201d <\/span>\u2013 delivered with all the assurance of insider knowledge.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>Tony Benn is an unfailingly polite, warm, courteous and gentle man with one of the best political brains the Commons has ever seen. He has always refused to engage in character attacks and has religiously confined himself to policies, never people \u2013 his enemies conspicuously doing the opposite. Some cartoonist\u2019s even used to draw his eyes as little spirals to ensure that demonic look. He is, in fact, one of the politicians least deserving of this treatment.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>The truth is, the rubbishing of Tony Benn\u2019s mental state was entirely related to his political beliefs and nothing else. He carried his socialism like a standard and championed genuine democracy, freedom of speech, human rights and trade unionism \u2013 all of which were seen as a threat to the (mostly) gentry-owned dailies of those days, the paternalistic, almost feudal, companies such as Benn Bros and the political party which represented them. As the global Press barons such as Murdoch and Black moved in, the attacks, if anything, became even more vitriolic. But he\u2019s got used to the insults over the years.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>\u201cMadness is one of the charges used to dismiss your views. If I rescued a child from drowning the Press would no doubt headline the story \u2018Benn grabs child\u2019. They start off accusing you of being mad before labeling you as dangerous and then there\u2019s a pause. Eventually they adopt your views and it\u2019s the same each time with progress.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>Of course, Tony Benn isn\u2019t the only victim of this cruel use of alleged madness. The one dissenting voice that forcefully challenged the Government\u2019s cynical assurances over BSE\/CJD came from Prof Richard Lacey – and he was vilified for it. It eventually cost him his job and probably his peace of mind.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>\u201cWith Richard Lacey there was a series of sustained and vicious, politically motivated media attacks and I found it frightening \u2013 I still do\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>Of course, back in 1961, Tony Benn wasn\u2019t Tony Benn, he was the Rt Hon Anthony Wedgwood Benn, Viscount Stansgate. He had inherited the title on his father\u2019s death a year earlier and tried hard to renounce it but, believe it or not, the law as it then was wouldn\u2019t allow it. Once a peer, always a peer was the establishment view.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

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<\/span>Despite having been elected democratically by the people of Bristol South-East and been their representative for 10 years, he could no longer act as their MP. He could, of course, sit in the House of Lords and wield influence over legislation without a single person having voted for him. But, that of course, was anathema \u2013 he wanted the Lords abolished.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>A by-election was called in his constituency and you now start to get a measure of the man. Despite being disqualified, he stood for re-election and won hands down. However, the electoral court overruled the voters and handed his seat to the Conservative runner up. Just imagine the uproar if that happened today! The fact that it couldn\u2019t is thanks to Tony Benn.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>It was another two years before his campaign for the right to choose was successful and the Peerage Act was passed. It received Royal Assent at 6pm on July 31 and at 6.22pm that day, Tony Benn was no longer a Viscount. At the Bristol by-election which followed, he again won comfortably. (Many years later, the seat disappeared due to boundary changes and he became the MP for Chesterfield.)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>Throughout this whole period the media sustained their attack on him, misrepresenting him as some dilettante aristocrat playing at being a working class hero \u2013 not least because he stopped using the name Wedgwood. They christened him \u2018Wedgie\u2019 just to remind us and conveniently forgot to mention that his father, a Labour MP, had been awarded the title only in 1942 as an attempt to redress the massive, in-built Tory majority in the House of Lords. Barely a journalist acknowledged the importance of his fight for democracy which changed the British constitution.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n
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Burston Strike Rally. Tony Benn and Billy Bragg outside the school. Photo: Andy Darnell Copy: For: EDP Archant \u00a9 2007<\/p><\/div>\n

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<\/span>Dissent and rebellion run deep in the Benn family. His mother Margaret was not only political but also a feminist and extremely religious \u2013 a bible scholar and founder of the Congregational Federation and a member of the League of the Church Militant, the first organisation to call for the ordination of women.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>\u201cMy roots come from the dissenting tradition in religion, what my Mother called \u2018the priesthood of all believers\u2019. You don\u2019t need a Bishop to help interpret things for you as everybody has a hotline to the Almighty. That of course was a tremendously revolutionary idea because out of that Methodist, Congregationalist tradition comes the idea that we had the right to build our own world, to meet our own needs and not just wait to be patted on the head by a Bishop and told, \u2018If you do what I tell you to do, you\u2019ll go to heaven\u2019.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>Tony Benn\u2019s father was also a rebel, moving from the Liberal party to the Labour party when Lloyd George became leader \u2013 a man he saw as corrupt. He also gave his son some pretty rebellious advice:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>\u201cWhen I was young he said: \u2018Dare to be a Daniel, Dare to stand alone, Dare to have a purpose firm, Dare to let it (be) known.\u2019 Now these are very, very powerful influences.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>I can\u2019t think of anyone who has fulfilled that bit of paternal advice more completely.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>The first time I went to Tony Benn\u2019s Holland Park house was about 15 years ago when we were trying to get a TV series called The People\u2019s Court off the ground. Sadly it never happened. When I visited recently, the only noticeable change was that the front door was now a glossy red. \u201cBloody would be, wouldn\u2019t it?\u201d said the taxi driver.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>As I stepped inside and followed the stairs down to the basement, it was like a time warp and could have been the first visit. Row upon row of books in seemingly random order were still there, piles of papers, clutter and half light with Tony in the middle of it.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>His extraordinarily diligent assistant and the tireless editor of his diaries, Ruth Winstone, was still chivvying and chasing and keeping order of a kind. I first bought a copy of his diaries for my father 20 years ago \u2013 and received the latest copy from my daughter this Christmas. It may have made me feel old but it\u2019s a mark of Tony\u2019s prodigious output and political longevity.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>As we started to talk, his pocket tape recorder was placed on the table in front of us. It helps provide the raw material for his diaries but is also a mechanism to help prevent the vicious misquoting to which he was subjected for so many years and has become habitual. To a large degree it worked.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

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<\/span>Of course the biggest change since my last visit was the death of his American-born wife of more than 50 years, Caroline \u2013 in 2000 at the age of 74.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>Caroline was a political biographer and champion of comprehensive education and she and Tony met over tea at Worcester College, Oxford, in 1949. On a park bench nine days later, Tony proposed. In an extraordinarily romantic gesture, he was later to buy that bench from Oxford City Council and place in the garden of their house.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>In June, 1999, for their Golden Wedding celebration, Caroline put on the same red, striped dress she had been wearing when Tony proposed. Their long and, by everyone\u2019s reckoning, happy life together was enriched by four children \u2013 Stephen, Hilary, Melissa and Joshua. Currently, there are 10 grandchildren.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>I expressed my sorrow at Caroline\u2019s death and asked how things had been. Tony Benn\u2019s whole demeanour changed slightly \u2013 his body seemed to slump a little, his eyes looked downwards and his voice became small: \u201cDreadful\u2026dreadful!\u201d<\/span> It was time to move the subject on I felt. Tony has written elsewhere of his beloved wife.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n
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<\/span>\u201cShe was my socialist soulmate. When people went through our rubbish every day, it was harder for her. I could respond in the House \u2013 she just had to take it.”<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>Tony Benn would argue, I\u2019m sure, that his beliefs are based on truths. If something can be proved then you have to act on it, one way or another, if you are to retain your integrity. So when, 26 years ago, his teenage son Hilary explained with great conviction that impoverishment in the developing world was directly linked to meat eating, Tony and Caroline immediately joined their son in giving up meat and have stuck with it ever since.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>Hilary was obviously pushing at a half-open door because his father was already horrified by animal suffering and from the age of six or so had attended antivivisection rallies in Trafalgar Square. Hilary Benn is now, of course, a minister in the Labour Government and the third generation in the family to have sat in the Cabinet. As Secretary of State for International Development, he is probably the first minister ever in this position to fully understand the links between meat eating and starvation.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>He is, though, far more mainstream in his politics than his father and I made passing reference to this. Tony remained silent and a tiny smile tweaked the corner of his mouth. It seemed to say: \u201cHe\u2019ll learn.\u201d Tony Benn is obviously extremely proud of his son.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>\u201cHaving been made aware of the need for it, I have never lost sight of my vegetarianism. Unquestioning brutality like slaughter and capital punishment does corrupt you and is a blot on the civilizing of society. Such positions reflect on the values of a society. I am particularly revolted by religious slaughter but the slaughter of all animals is barbaric. Why breed animals simply to kill and eat them. How is it different to killing people?\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>Of course, some animals are killed but not eaten, such as foxes and Tony Blair\u2019s equivocation on hunting delayed a ban for years. The whole sorry, undemocratic charade is, in Tony Benn\u2019s view, symptomatic of New Labour\u2019s priorities:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>“If you look at the New Labour project, it is based on a very clear idea \u2013 if you want power, you have to satisfy the rich because they have the power. They own the newspapers, the companies and have lots of money to give. It was a political project to distance New Labour from the trade unions and to abandon any formal link with socialism. Everybody understands that now. In fact the gap between politics and people is getting wider and the big question is how to bridge that gulf.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>\u201cThe worship of money goes back to Moses and the golden calf and when money becomes everything, it prompts the Taliban to sell heroin and nuclear scientists to sell nuclear secrets. It is exemplified by the US resistance to Kyoto and the redistribution of wealth.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>\u201cWe have 1,000 billion ancestors and all are related and yet no two people are the same. Our presence on this Earth is like being shipwrecked and sailing together in a lifeboat. You can either sell what food there is to the rich so they survive and then generate fights over it, or you can share it out. It isn\u2019t just a moral decision but a practical one. There is no shortage of food in the world simply a shortage of money with which to buy it.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>Tony Benn speaks in a conversational way despite the profound nature of his thoughts. Not for him the high-flown rhetoric or finger-stabbing theatricals and it is his measured and reasoned delivery that makes his words sound utterly logical.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>\u201cWe have to face the real choice of whether we want our children to survive or not because it is not inconceivable that the human race will simply wipe itself out. We have a choice between socialism and barbarism and what we need is a few more teachers and a few less directors. People are not angry apathetic as we\u2019re always being told but angry and mistrustful and the erosion of democracy has contributed.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>\u201cDemocracy is the most frightening of concepts and few power seekers like it \u2013 Stalin, Hitler, the Pope, Tony Blair [ouch!]. We are in the age of Murdocracy with a parliament of Murdocrats and right-wing parties such as the BNP and UKIP could grow alarmingly if the US economy falters and prosperity disappears.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>As recently as 2005, Tony Benn presented a left wing view of democracy as part of the Channel 5 series Big Ideas That Changed the World \u2013 a practical means for passing power\u2026from the wallet to the ballot. He maintained that traditional social democratic values were under threat in an increasingly globalised world in which powerful institutions such as the IMF, the World Bank and the EU Commission remain unelected and unaccountable to those whose lives they affect daily.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>Most people will remember the iconic Press picture of Winston Churchill\u2019s statue bearing a grass turf Mohican haircut at an antiglobalisation rally in London. The Press, of course, whipped itself into a frenzy of outrage over it, which saved them having to explore the issues which were at the heart of the protest. Tony Benn has no doubt about how important they are.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>\u201cWe have reached a point where even debt relief in the developing world is based on privatisation so that desperately-needed public services pass into the hands of multinational corporations to provide profit. The big question today is whether globalisation will allow democracy to survive so thank goodness for the antiglobalisation and peace movements as they are truly the great hopes for the world.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>\u201cThe people who have left the deepest footprints in history are the thinkers \u2013 Gallileo, Darwin, Freud, Marx \u2013 people who help you understand the world and the function of the old should be to encourage questioning.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>As far as parliament is concerned, Tony believes that 1832 was the pivotal year, with the passing of the Reform Act. Before that date, it was entirely dominated by the nobility and landed gentry who began to lose their grip on power when most males were enfranchised under the Act. Women, of course had to wait until 1928 for all those over 21 to get the vote. Major parliamentary changes continued until 1945.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>\u201cHow did we do it? Through protest by the Chartists, the suffragettes, the poor \u2013 by democracy!\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>But what of the EU \u2013 an institution I have flip-flopped about over the years, unable to make up my mind? Does it not provide a way forward, particularly as a counterbalance to US global domination? Tony Benn dismisses the thought as peremptorily as his innate politeness will allow.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>\u201cIndia and China will soon be the counterbalance to the US. The EU is simply a local instrument for spreading globalisation which particularly benefits US interests. It is entirely undemocratic and two-thirds of its legislation it passed without any democratic consent at all\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>He speaks of the lethargy and inertia of a huge, unrepresentative colossus with which he had to work as Minister of Trade in the 1974 Labour Government \u2013 moved to Secretary of State for Energy in the following year by Harold Wilson after campaigning against ratification of British membership of the then EEC. There\u2019s not many people who can speak with such firsthand experience \u2013 done that, been there, don\u2019t like it. It\u2019ll do for me!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>Tony retired from parliament in 2001 to \u201cdevote more time to politics”<\/span> and became a leading light in the opposition to the war on Iraq, speaking to more than a million people at the Stop the War Coalition London protest. He became the organisation\u2019s first elected president. That\u2019s one side of the man. He has also three times spoken at the Glastonbury Festival, toured the UK with his extraordinary one-man stage show (and if it comes to your town \u2013 do go and see him) and appears in a two-man show with folk singer Roy Bailey \u2013 voted the best live act at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. It is a combination of music and words about the Peasants Revolt, the Tolpuddle Martyrs and the English Revolution. \u201cI enjoy that very much\u201d<\/span>, says the incredible Mr Benn.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>He loves words but often presents them with great utility, allowing others to interpret their extraordinary depth of meaning. \u201cWhen I first met Nelson Mandela he was a terrorist; when I next saw him, he was a Nobel Prize winner and the President of South Africa.”<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>Unlike the Mr Benn cartoon character, Tony Benn doesn\u2019t have to pop into a clothes shop to embark on a new adventure \u2013 his life, it seems has been one continuous adventure – but politics interweaves its way through everything. Even as a young, wartime fighter pilot in Egypt his tales are not of derring-do but much greater concepts:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>\u201cI came back in a troopship in the Summer of 1945 and I heard these words \u2013 \u2018We, the peoples of the United Nations, are determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war which twice in our lifetime has caused untold suffering to mankind…\u2019. Those words are imprinted on my heart!\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>Tony Benn is now 81 and still extraordinarily active. Any words I might use to finish this piece wouldn\u2019t hold a candle to his own. If you want to hear rapturous applause, listen to him on Question Time or Any Questions, because he has the unique ability to put his finger on what many people are thinking but are not sure how to express. He can therefore have the last word:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>\u201dWe are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values. We are told that current parliamentary Bills have been drafted to form the prime minister’s legacy; but his real legacy could be the destruction of the Labour party itself.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

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<\/span>The first six of Tony Benn\u2019s diaries are published together as ISBN 0099634112, the latest as ISBN 009941502X. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

Interview taken from Viva!\u2019s<\/em> supporters\u2019 magazine, Viva!LIFE<\/em>, issue 31, spring 2006. also here<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

Viva!<\/em> – please support their campaigns \u2013 join now<\/a><\/span>!\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

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‘Socialism\u00a0&\u00a0Veganism \u2013\u00a0Many\u00a0Years\u00a0Ago’ –\u00a0here<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n

Democratic Socialist\u00a0Henry S. Salt<\/a> explaining Socialism \u2013<\/h4>\n

<\/span>\u2026\u2026the main contention of Socialists is that the land and the means of production belong rightfully to the people, and not to the present occupiers. If two parties claim one and the same property, it can hardly be called a theft to institute an enquiry as to which is the rightful owner, with a view to a possible restoration of the stolen goods.<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

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\u2026\u2026non-workers steal the produce of the labouring classes. The fact that individuals cannot remedy this systematic wrong does not in the least disprove the existence of the evil; at any rate they ought to have the grace to acknowledge the source from which their comforts are derived, and to join in the attempt to bring about as speedy a reform as possible. Unfortunately this is a course to which the capitalist classes seems specially disinclined. They insist that they are the rightful possessors of wealth which comes in to them without any labour on their part, and attempt to raise the cry of \u201cStop thief\u201d against those who venture even to investigate the origin of their wealth. Our capitalists persist to the bitter end in the fatuous assertion that to live idly on the labour of others is not the same thing as to steal.<\/span>\u00a0\u2013 Henry S. Salt \u2013 in his essay \u2013 \u2018Thou Shalt Not Steal\u2019 \u2013 Justice, March 14, 1885 \u2013 here in full<\/a><\/span><\/h4>\n

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<\/span>Our Projects<\/span><\/h1>\n

The Henry Salt Archive<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span> is one of our, almost completed, projects.<\/span><\/h4>\n

The Humanitarian League<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span> is our Hong Kong registered charity.<\/span><\/h4>\n

The Ernest Bell Library<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>was conceived in 1934.<\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>There are currently more than 3,000 items in the Ernest Bell Library.<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>We will complete the\u00a0cataloging of the collection as & when adequate funds are available.<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>It is long past time for the library to go online!<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

<\/span>\u00a0\u201cI have little doubt that the proposal for the establishment of an Ernest Bell Library,\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>which would specialize in humanitarian and progressive literature,\u00a0<\/strong>a<\/strong>nd so form a sort of centre for students, will meet with a wide response.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

Henry S. Salt \u2013<\/span> writing<\/a><\/span> in September 1934<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n

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