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Tony Benn RIP
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Friday March 14, 2014 10:54 by v for vendetta
Sadly, Tony Benn has died aged 88 Wiki has this to say about him: Anthony Neil Wedgwood "Tony" Benn, PC (3 April 1925 – 14 March 2014), formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate, was a British Labour Party politician who was a Member of Parliament (MP) for 50 years and a Cabinet Minister under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan. BBC has a history here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/people/tony_benn Guardian has a good article too: http://www.theguardian.com/profile/tonybenn RIP Tony Benn The end of an era where rounded whole people with a genuine moral compass and genuine convictions still existed. With few exceptions, nothing but a bunch of self serving narcissistic empty shells left to rule politics. I see little hope for the future. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2solidarity greetings to the Benn Family, while waiting at Dublin airport this morning. to catch a flight to London, for a confence which is been organised by the People's Assembly Against Austerity. 15 March 2014. Tony was the Coalition of Resistance chairperson. this was a political movement which brought together Community activists Trade Unions, people unemployed. people with disabilities. Communist Party of Britain working class people coming together to organise against the economic austerity in which the working Class of England taking a political stand, against the political economic agenda of privitisation, Capitalism IMF, ECB Troika
June 20 13 Westminister hall, London over 4,000 activists attended a meeting with a political Socialist agenda the message was loud and clear, that the political economic agenda set up by Capitalist, vultures dinosaurs was not going to be accepted by the working class to divide and rule that the political economic crisis was not brought about by the working class, that there will be peaceful resistance, standing together with our best weapon Class Conscious
another Comrade also died of a heart attack. Monday, or Tuesday 11 of March. Comrade Bob Crow. RMT trade union
if we can't stand together as political working class activists? then what does our condolences to the families of two comrades mean to them?
Sincere sympathy to Tony's four children, their families and all of his loved ones.
George Galloway in an interview on BBC (worth seeing) reminds us - and the interviewer - that Tony Benn's ideas were shared by the vast majority of people. As in Ireland, he was supported by the people on issues like the war in Iraq, public ownership of gas and electricity, NATO, nuclear weapons, etc. He was not an aristocrat, he says, yet he was "a prince among men, - the most gentle, most honourable, most filled with integrity".
I never met him but our family delighted in seeing him on our TV screen speaking our own thoughts with sincerity, power and conviction on all the big issues of our day.
Sadly, as in Ireland, democracy was not a winner. The sinister union of money, media and militarism used politics as puppeteers with elected politicians dancing on the end of their strings. Tony Benn refused to be a puppet as do a few honourable politicians here.
He will be sadly missed. May his voice live forever.