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Actor Saffron Burrows, a longtime friend of the Labour politician, recalls a tireless activist who loved people, talking – and tea 
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Product Details: Paperback: 15 pagesPublisher: Imprint unknown (June 1973)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0901740349ISBN-13: 978-0901740342 Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds Tags: Workers' Control How Far Can the Structure Meet Our Demands?
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In all the memorials to Tony Benn one period of his career seems to have been missed. The 12 years he was associated with the Institute for Workers Control. He first encountered them in 1971 when he visited the Upper Clyde Shipyards.
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The psychology of Mindfulness recommends a useful technique to help you prioritise the values you'd like to live your life by: think of the things that you'd most like your friends and family to say about you at your funeral. Try to practice those behaviours - "they were always kind and thoughtful" - that you think would sound good when said in front of a large gathering of your nearest and dearest whilst ditching those you'd rather left unsaid.
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Politics is often associated solely with political parties and their pursuit of power. Perhaps, it is an innate dislike and distrust of those who claim authority over our individuality, which leads to certain caricatures of politicians. The politician is parodied in several ways: as a power-hungry individual, as a populist craving public adulation or as the quintessential establishment figure.
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These are times of high aspirations, with many seeking self-fulfilment through financial success and moving up the social ladder. This makes it hard to understand what induces an aristocrat to renounce his hereditary title to champion the powerless and the working class. Such politicians are a dying breed.
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Hilary Wainwright looks back at how Tony Benn's frustrations in government spurred him to spend his life fighting for real democracy (RT @joecguinan: 'Workers' Control with Management Participation'.
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Tony Benn is the only person to whom I have ever given permission to smoke in church. My reasoning: we sometimes use clouds of incense, so what does a cloud of pipe tobacco matter? But really, I allowed him to do it because he was Tony Benn. And, to be honest, even if I'd have said no, I'm not sure he would have taken a blind bit of notice.
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Tony Benn speaks out against capitalism outside St. Paul's cathedral as part of the Occupy London event. Saturday 9th November 2011.
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“Now in a world of international capitalism, we are being dominated increasingly by people we did not elect, can’t remove and who therefore do not have to listen to us…..” Tony Benn, Steps of St.Pauls, 9/11/11.
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It is a shock. Not an unexpected one, because though the mind was alive, the body had been declining for months. I shall miss him, because Tony Benn was a towering figure, one of the rare politicians, in his day, who was a household name, bigger than any post he held. It will not emerge from the tributes we will hear today, but it was also staggering how much he was reviled in his time, because he was not some gentle socialist guru, he was a political sreet fighter, warm in his friendships and harsh in his judgements.
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The first time I met Tony Benn was years ago at the WBAI Pacifica radio station in New York. We were both being simultaneously interviewed about the events of the day. He was delighted to be able to speak his mind and share his progressive views with mine on the radio. “There’s much more freedom of speech in the U.S. than in the U.K.,” he remarked to me. “Not that much more,” I said. That was the closest we came to a disagreement.
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The former Labour Cabinet Minister, author and long-serving MP Tony Benn has passed away today, aged 88. In 2009, our deputy editor Mary Wakefield interviewed Benn about the financial crisis and the basic decency at the heart of all human beings. Here is the article in full.
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The former cabinet minister died this morning at his home in west London surrounded by family members aged 88.
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All five of Labour's leadership contenders said in a live televised debate that they would describe themselves as socialists.
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