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I continue to believe that the best opportunity we have to advance our socialist objectives lies in forging the closest possible links with our fellow socialists and trade unions across the Channel.

— Shirley Williams

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There can be a Fascism of the Left as well as Fascism of the Right.

We are seeing the increase of unemployment throughout the industrial world, and it is a problem for which we still have no real answer.

We are going to fight to save the party and by God we think we can. We are going to start fighting for a Labour Party worthy of the name.

Speech to a fringe meeting at the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool (1980)

David has had the idea that the voters to try and win are defecting Tories... I personally have always held that we must try to replace the Labour Party.

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Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

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Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Winston Churchill

In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country and that every act of its rulers must be excused, if not imitated.

George Orwell

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