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... of the time . This revolution is fundamental , for it touches the springs of action in the great mass of the common people . Greater changes in the material structure of society have still to come , but they will 10 THE AIMS OF LABOUR.
... of the time . This revolution is fundamental , for it touches the springs of action in the great mass of the common people . Greater changes in the material structure of society have still to come , but they will 10 THE AIMS OF LABOUR.
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... action since democracy first took shape as an organised movement . It has been the aim of trade unionism from its earliest beginnings , though it may not have been consciously formulated . It is the aspiration of political democracy ...
... action since democracy first took shape as an organised movement . It has been the aim of trade unionism from its earliest beginnings , though it may not have been consciously formulated . It is the aspiration of political democracy ...
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... action on the part of the organ- ised working class movement . It is true that after the passing of the Reform Act of 1868 , which en- franchised the workmen in the boroughs , a move- ment was started to secure the return of trade union ...
... action on the part of the organ- ised working class movement . It is true that after the passing of the Reform Act of 1868 , which en- franchised the workmen in the boroughs , a move- ment was started to secure the return of trade union ...
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... action and close co - operation between all peoples will be essential . The defeat of aggressive Militarism and Autoc- racy will not dispose of all the great difficulties con- fronting Democracy ; it will only mean , in the event of an ...
... action and close co - operation between all peoples will be essential . The defeat of aggressive Militarism and Autoc- racy will not dispose of all the great difficulties con- fronting Democracy ; it will only mean , in the event of an ...
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... action . Concentration of its strength can only be achieved by complete unity of purpose and action . What is most urgently required is breadth of vision to focus in broad out- line the great aims of democracy , and courage , power ...
... action . Concentration of its strength can only be achieved by complete unity of purpose and action . What is most urgently required is breadth of vision to focus in broad out- line the great aims of democracy , and courage , power ...
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Page 112 - If we in Britain are to escape from the decay of civilization itself, which the Japanese statesman foresees, we must insure that what is presently to be built up is a new social order, based not on fighting, but on fraternity — not on the competitive struggle for the means of bare life, but on a deliberately planned cooperation in production and distribution for the benefit of all who participate by hand or by brain...
Page 44 - The treaties and agreements which bring it to an end must embody terms which will create a peace that is worth guaranteeing and preserving, a peace that will win the approval of mankind, not merely a peace that will serve the several interests and immediate aims of the nations engaged.
Page 119 - Nation's industry, no longer deflected by individual profiteering, on the basis of the common ownership of the means of production; the equitable sharing of the proceeds among all who participate in any capacity and only among these...
Page 126 - Infancy) which is still so scandalously insufficient; for the Aged and those prematurely incapacitated by accident or disease, now in many ways so imperfectly cared for ; for the Education alike of children, of adolescents and of adults, in which the Labour Party demands a genuine equality of opportunity, overcoming all differences of material circumstances ; and for the organisation of public improvements of all kinds, including the brightening of the lives of those now condemned to almost ceaseless...
Page 102 - Fourth, that all well-defined national aspirations shall be accorded the utmost satisfaction that can be accorded them without introducing new or perpetuating old elements of discord and antagonism that would be likely in time to break the peace of Europe and consequently of the world.
Page 64 - The time has arrived when all possible encouragement should be given to the development of imperial resources and especially to making the Empire independent of other countries in respect of food supplies, raw materials, and essential industries.
Page 109 - No annexations or punitive indemnities, and the right of all peoples to self-determination," and that they are working with all their power to obtain from their Governments the necessary guarantees to apply these principles honestly and unreservedly to all questions to be dealt with at any official peace conference.
Page 112 - ... and wage-slavery; with its glorification of the unhampered struggle for the means of life and its hypocritical pretense of the "survival of the fittest"; with the monstrous inequality of circumstances which it produces and the degradation and brutalization, both moral and spiritual, resulting therefrom, may, we hope, indeed have received a death blow.
Page 125 - In the disposal of the surplus above the Standard of Life, society has hitherto gone as far wrong as in its neglect to secure the necessary basis of any genuine industrial efficiency or decent social order. We have allowed the riches of our mines, the rental value of the lands superior to the margin of cultivation, the extra profits of the fortunate capitalists, even the material outcome of scientific discoveries — which ought by now to have made this Britain of ours immune from class poverty or...
Page 117 - ... in the first years of peace, it is essential that the Government should make all necessary preparations for putting instantly in hand, directly or through the Local Authorities, such urgently needed public works as (a) the rehousing of the population alike in rural districts, mining villages, and town slums, to the extent, possibly, of a million new cottages and an outlay of...