Tony Benn
Tony Benn retired from Parliament in 2001 after more than 50 years to ‘devote more time to politics’. The longest serving Labour MP in the history of the party he served as a cabinet minister under Wilson and Callaghan.
Articles by Tony Benn
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Human Rights
The flowers of the Arab spring grow from buds of free information
- 14 April 2011
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The message of Tahrir Square and WikiLeaks, writes Tony Benn, is that the maxim “Information is power” works as much for individuals as for governments.
UK Politics
Benn's warning to Labour
- 23 September 2007
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Veteran politician and campaigner Tony Benn warns moves afoot at this year's conference to shave yet more power from the rank and file could endanger Labour's very future
Books
Apocalypse now
- 24 July 2000
Iraq Under Siege: the deadly impact of sanctions and war Edited by Anthony Arnove Pluto Press, 216pp, £10.99 ISBN 074531659X
Under Bevan, we stayed up all night to end the means test; now, we stay up all night to reintroduce it
- 31 May 1999
Politics
Rule one: everybody must agree
- 05 March 1999
The real purpose of the pro-Europe alliance is to stifle democracy, believes Tony Benn
