Tony Benn Militant Rally 1984

Tony Benn at Militant Rally 1984 at Wembley UK during Miners Strike. Courtesy of Socialist Party - extract from http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/vids/militant_rally_1984_part_one.wmv

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[teddii289]

The SP and others has said that the amount of funds held 'offshore' by individuals is about $11.5 trillion - so the amount lost every year in tax revenue (at current rates) on the income from these assets adds up to about $250 billion - five times what the World Bank estimated was needed to halve world poverty by 2015!

[teddii289]

Thanks for your interest, but you only signed off your name and forgot to make your comment. It is a good clip isn't it? It's good to be reminded of Labour Ministers who actually supported working class people rather than billionaire bankers. However if I were you I'd change your online name - wanker? I don't care what you do in front of your computer, but you shouldn't name yourself so acurately. All the best anyway, I'll try to find some more clips that will please you (but not in that way!)

[hugoegbert79]

You're comparing Marxism with Nazism. There is no comparison with Benn attending a Militant meeting and a Tory attending a BNP meeting, because marxism is an economic ideology and Nazism/facism is an ideology that judges some people worthy of death due to their skin colour. No comparison.

[hypergreg]

the Labour Party was so weak at the time and Tony Benn was, and still is, such a significant member of the labour left, that the party could not throw him out and actually Lord Tebbitt implied that people should vote UKIP in the European Elections this year, he was not thrown out of the Conservatives.

Militant Tendency was not a political party, rather closer to a pressure group, the BNP is a political party, you cannot draw comparisons between the 2, as it is 2 completely different situations

[NatDemUK]

It is so wonderful that Tony Benn never became leader of the Labour Party but Michael Foot did. I am glad that Foot passed in a register to track down these Militant vermin out, they were doing no good for the party including the National Executive Committee. Most of all why would a rich man like Tony Benn want to be soaked dry? And Scargill and the NUM despised these Militant scum all along, so Benn and his Militant chums were nothing but pure damageable untermenschen.

[NatDemUK]

@hatinae Socialism comes in various forms. What needs to be smashed is Marxism!

[hatinae]

DEATH TO SOCIALISM

[hatinae]

LONG LIVE THATCHERISM

[hatinae]

KNML

[DerBlitzStag]

@NatDemUK That's because he was a full-blown Stalinist and hatred Trotskyists.

As Monty Python said.

Spilters!

[MrLovethelife]

Such a shame the Militant got kicked out....We need solidarity with the coalition which makes up the Labour party. We need a democratic workers party who represent the masses not the business's,........Good God comrades we such a battle to re-shape the Labour and trade union movement!

[NatDemUK]

WOW, Tony Benn! I never knew that you were working class! I am sure that Tony Benn would not mind being taxed 99% since that was what the Militant (now SPEW!) was demanding. Oh and the miners rejected Militant as well including Arthur Scargill! Since he formed his own party the SLP which is totally different to SPEW!