John McDonnell

I'm a Marxist.

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I'm a plain speaker.

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As the world changes, the way we work changes with it.

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No cause is worth the loss of a child's life.

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If allowed, democracy does actually work.

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Political rivalry is one thing but personal smear campaigns scrape the barrel of political infighting.

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New Labour has systematically alienated section after section of the coalition we need to win and retain power.

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We need to promote employment through investment in major public works schemes to meet the U.K.'s needs.

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Airport expansion is just one example of how our planet is being plundered for profit.

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We urgently need a major programme of investment in renewable energy generation to tackle climate change.

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Britain has moved on. It is a radically different country from that which shaped New Labour.

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Labour will only survive in government if we can restore the sense of mission upon which it was founded.

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I'm from the north. You can take the boy out of the north but you can't take the north out of the…

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There are some lines in the sand you just do not cross. Undermining basic civil liberties by locking people up for long…

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The spread of information technology and the long-term decline in the cost of computing power have created opportunities that simply did not…

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We have to face up to the fact that without the armed uprising in 1916 Britain would not have withdrawn from southern Ireland.

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Going to university is, and should be, so much more than a mechanical process of grinding out a degree qualification for a…

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When you talk to people about their practical life, for example when they're at work, like the rail industry, the RMT members…

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I have a political philosophy by which I judge political events. It's called socialism, which at its core is about achieving equality,…

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When I was a GLC councillor, we won and held London as Labour was imploding nationally - running popular campaigns against the…

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The worry in Labour circles is that, when pressed, Gordon Brown instinctively moved to cut the benefits of the poor rather than…

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The illegal 2003 invasion had little to do with liberating Iraqis from Saddam Hussein's dictatorship. Instead, the real freedoms and benefits were…

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Since John Smith's death and the Blair/Brown takeover in 1994, party members have watched the way in which an elite leadership group…

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People realise that if Labour is to fulfil its founding goal of transforming our economic and political system into a more equal,…

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Many argue that graduates earn a 'premium' because of their education, and should have to pay their way. I agree, and that's…

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New Labour has systematically alienated section after section of our natural supporters - teachers, health workers, students, pensioners, public service workers, trade…

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Nationally, unrestrained Heathrow expansion has prevented the balanced development of regional airports and their economies and the planning of an integrated transport…

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Out of the suffering of the 1930s, Britain built a civilising society, based in large part on the important lesson that unemployment…

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I saw the Blair-Mandelson regime as a coup, and I think it was a well-funded coup as well - resources obviously came…

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You can't change the world through the parliamentary system.

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If Marx was alive during the Stalinist period, he'd be first to be in the gulag.

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New Labour has created a society increasingly oppressed by the worry of personal debt.

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The Tories have made a complete mess of Brexit negotiations.

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Meeting the challenges of the future requires a state that can think and act strategically.

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Ministers may not be responsible for administrative errors, but they are responsible for major policy blunders.

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The concept of loyalty to the leader is set firmly in the ethos of the Labour party.

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Changing leaders is pointless if the same policies are pursued.

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The arrogant view that young people don't count because they don't vote has thankfully been smashed for ever.

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The U.K. needs to diversify - to become the technological as well as the financial centre of Europe.

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Democratic government requires the consent of the governed.

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