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In recent years, hours of work have been reduced, holidays have been increased, the age of entry into employment has gone up, and above all, our general health and expectation of life as a people have markedly improved. It is a natural corollary of these changes that we should work longer and retire later.

— Hugh Gaitskell

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It must be admitted that politically communism is the same [as fascism].

The success of the middle class alliance depended on the acceptance by the working class element of middle class leadership and middle class ideas.

Chartism: An Introductory Essay (1929)

Socialists should understand that it is their duty to do anything in their power directly or indirectly to assist the revolutionary opposition within fascist countries.

Fascism has become the last defence of a crumbling economic system. It is the last bulwark of Capitalism.

Notes for Lecturers to the LLY [Labour League of Youth (1938)

I was a witness of two civil wars and their ghastly and tragic consequences, and I learnt, as never before, to value the freedom of British political traditions.

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