"If the Labour Party is not going to be a Socialist Party, I don't want to lead it."

“Just consider, all the little nations running for shelter here and there, one running to Russia and another to the United States. In that situation before anything else would happen, the world will have been polarised between the Soviet Union and the United States. It is against that negative polarisation we have been fighting for years. We want to have the opportunity to interpose between these two giants a moderating, modifying and mitigating diplomacy.”

“The Labour Party should oppose the Government arms plan root and branch.”

“The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.”

“Speeches on the NHS at Socialist Health Association”

“If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.”

“The fear of Hitler is to be used to frighten the workers of Britain into silence. In short Hitler is to rule Britain by proxy. If we accept the contention that the common enemy is Hitler and not the British capitalist class, then certainly Churchill is right. But it means abandonment of the class struggle and the subservience of the British workers to their own employers.”