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It can hardly be denied—can it?—that the theory and practice of apartheid—the advocacy of a permanent division of men according to the colour of their skin, and involving, in practice, different rights, opportunities and status—is a continuous affront to the vast majority of the inhabitants of the Commonwealth.

— 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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