The workers must be given tangible proof that Labour administration means something different from capitalist administration, and in a nutshell this means diverting wealth from wealthy ratepayers to the poor.

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"Poplar and the Labour Party: a Defence of Poplarism", Labour Monthly (June 1922), quoted in John Shepherd "A Life on the Left: George Lansbury (1859—1940): A Case Study in Recent Labour Biography", Labour History, No. 87 (November 2004), p. 158

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