The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
... it is the spirit of trade unionism that is most important, the service of fellowship, the feeling that the hurt of… — Rose Schneiderman Copy Share Image
I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small… — Saffron Burrows Copy Share Image
Getting political representation is important, but change comes through using direct action, campaigning, and trade unions. — John McDonnell Copy Share Image
I would not go so far as to say that the French trade unions attached greater importance to the struggle for peace… — Leon Jouhaux Copy Share Image
I fear that within 10 years gays, trade union activists and left wing politicians will be led off to the gas chambers. — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
Public discourse degenerated. There's no longer a place for intelligent debate at universities, where people just work for degrees and careers. My… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
When a Conservative government is presiding over unfair cuts to tax credits, chaos in the NHS and an unnecessary and ideological attack… — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
Arthur Scargill’s leadership of the miners’ strike has been a disgrace. The price to be paid for his folly will be immense.… — Jimmy Reid Copy Share Image
When it comes to jobs, investment, growth, security and our influence in the world we are clearly stronger in Europe. But we… — Hilary Benn Copy Share Image
The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
The functionaries of our political organizations and trade unions are corrupted -- or rather tend to be corrupted -- by the conditions… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
We will stand by our friends and administer a stinging rebuke to men or parties who are either indifferent, negligent, or hostile,… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
The main difference lies in wage levels, which is because our workers are not yet as well trained as in other countries.… — Nguyen Minh Triet Copy Share Image
“American DEWAR FAMILY Cameron Dewar Ursula “Beep” Dewar, his sister Woody Dewar, his father Bella Dewar, his mother PESHKOV-JAKES FAMILY George Jakes… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“Another blatant case of regress as part of the capitalist progress is the enormous rise of precarious work. Precarious work deprives workers… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“Over the years I have had much occasion to ponder this word, the intelligentsia . We are all very fond of including… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Many years later, after Niemöller had been imprisoned for eight years in concentration camps as the personal prisoner of Adolf Hitler, he… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
From the time I entered cabinet, the emphasis was on reforms, but reforms which did not abolish separate development, but reforms which… — Frederik Willem de Klerk Copy Share Image
“There were people who believed their opportunities to live a fulfilled life were hampered by the number of Asians in England, by… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The history of the labor movement needs to be taught in every school in this land. America is a living testimonial to… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for… — Martin Niemoeller Copy Share Image
With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
My father got a trade union scholarship to Oxford; he lived and breathed politics; he was always watching current-affairs programmes. But I… — Jez Butterworth Copy Share Image
If we want to make progress in key areas now, we have to build a multi-stakeholder process, harnessing the appropriate energies. So… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
The whole time I was a union leader, we had to put up with John Howard and Tony Abbott attacking workers' conditions.… — Bill Shorten Copy Share Image
The trade unions in the UK are campaigning around zero-hours contracts, which isn't about feminism, but it's a feminist issue. Women are… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
Modern Australian trade unionism and the unionist that I am doesn't rely on a class war view that somehow that the interests… — Bill Shorten Copy Share Image
“First they came for the communists and I did not speak out - because I was not a communist. Then they came… — Pastor Niemoeller. Political prisoner of the Nazis Copy Share Image
Everybody is entitled to believe. Churches have exactly the same right to exist as a football club, a trade union or a… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
It is Margaret Thatcher's fault...Inspired by busy little demons, she slashed and burnt her way through the old order. Sentiment was given… — Stephen Bayley Copy Share Image
It is necessary to be able to withstand all this, to agree to any and every sacrifice, and evenif need beto resort… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
I'm thinking about some developments say in the 80s when the anti-apartheid movement began to claim more support and strength within the… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
To the best of my knowledge, when I became national secretary and, indeed, Victorian secretary, the - my predecessors in the union… — Bill Shorten Copy Share Image
“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the… — Martin Niemöller Copy Share Image
A trade unionist - of course I am. First, last, and all the time. How else to strike at the roots of… — Maud Younger Copy Share Image
“Deprived of his trade unions, collective bargaining and the right to strike, the German worker in the Third Reich became an industrial… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
At school, up to the age of sixteen, I found history boring, for we were studying the Industrial Revolution, which was all… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
