There Is No Final Victory, As There

It Is Not Surprising That More And More People Are Coming To The Conclusion That The Ballot Box Is No Longer An Instrument That Will Secure Political Solutions... They Can See That The Parliamentary Democracy We Boast Of Is Becoming A Sham.

There's People On The Left Who Say, The Ballot Box Is A Waste Of Time. Forget Them. When Mandela Voted For The First Time At The Age Of 76 There Was A Lot Of Grown Men, Including Me, Wept Buckets. That Was What It Was About. It Doesn't Solve Things, But It Gives You The Mechanism To Hold To Account The People With Power.

The First World War Created The Second World War Because That Was A War Between Three Grandsons Of Queen Victoria: The King Of England, The Kaiser And The Tsar Married Queen Victoria's Granddaughter. And That Triggered Communism In Russia And Fascism In Germany And Led To The Second World War.

Christians Believe That God Created Man, And Humanists Believe That Man Invented God. But Whichever Way You Look At It, We're Brothers And Sisters. Either We're Brothers And Sisters Because We're Children Of God, Or Because We've Banded Together To Invent God. So The Ethics Of The Humanist And The Ethics Of Some Christians Are Very Similar. And We Don't Want To Create Divisions Between Humanists And Liberation Theologians, Any More Than We Want Between The New Worker And The Trots. It's Not Helpful.

After The War People Said, 'if You Can Plan For War, Why Can't You Plan For Peace?' When I Was 17, I Had A Letter From The Government Saying, 'dear Mr. Benn, Will You Turn Up When You're 17 1/2? We'll Give You Free Food, Free Clothes, Free Training, Free Accommodation, And Two Shillings, Ten Pence A Day To Just Kill Germans.' People Said, Well, If You Can Have Full Employment To Kill People, Why In God's Name Couldn't You Have Full Employment And Good Schools, Good Hospitals, Good Houses?