I went to a lecture given by Tony Benn some years ago. He was a fantastic speaker and I still remember some of the inspiring words he spoke.

Who is in the interviewer? She is excellent.

I am a hard man to impress but Mr Benn always impressed me very much

It wasn't until about 25 years ago that I - an American - first became aware of TONY BENN (then an M.P.) through a radio interview. I was deeply impressed with what he said, wishing we had more national politicians of his stripe here in the U.S.

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A brilliant public servant. Great orator, socialist, writer/diarist and all round decent human being. He would have been a magnificent Prime minister. Damn it! Another missed opportunity. Jeremy Corbyn was clearly inspired by this man and of course, they were dear friends. Another good man brought down by the damn corrupt establishment.❤

Clever man, but damaged the Labour party greatly.

Tony Benn speaks so beautifully of worker co-ops

Well they had to get rid of him he was trying to have a fairer more sustainable society! The neocons and neoliberals e class today would make short work of him politically and I dare say physically!

A magnificent politician. They don’t exist anymore.

Love listening to this man. Unfortunately I remember the late 70s and 80s very well and the abuse this man had thrown at him .

He was right and we see today the results of neoliberalism

A brilliant socialist

The Labour Union leaders and the Labour right-wing cheated the working class again and again, with the Blairites (including Starmer) just being the latest reincarnation. Labour was never a real socialist party and never will be allowed to be, as with the political assassination of Corbyn.

Hello, a question, please. Is Stockton in Teesside? Thanks so much. This talk delivered by Mark Serwotka is great.

This man should have been Prime Minister

Jezbolah corbyn would have been wanking to this.

"The 200 monopolies that control 80-85% of the economy"........another leftie with no knowledge of basic economic terminology. In the 1980s, were all restaurants owned by the same company in the UK? Was every clothing store the exact same, and all owned by the same company? No, then they weren't monopolies. Mono = 1. When the government controls all the railways, that's a monopoly, albeit a non-profit one.

As always with whichever branch of the left you care to mention, their lack of success in persuading people is always someone else's fault: the media, the establishment, and, ultimately, the bloody voters for not seeeing "the truth"...

Never learn the labour party....Corbyn?

The Militant Tendency was of course cancer to the Labour Party. But let's not pretend like the Foot-led party had any real chance at winning in 1983.

I went to see Tony Benn speak in Brighton sometime around 1992, the room was packed and the atmosphere was not only electric, it was just full of hope, it was like people together can change things. Indelible.

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10:00 Their plan was "we will give some money 50K GBP to some professional who will write a piece that will gather dust on the shelves of universities in Britian" This was not Tony Benn's idea and he had a better idea

Tony Benn and Enoch Powell top people on either side....vastly missed I was in Transport House this period 1970s Fascinating period.. Recall it and the personalities so well Tony Blair was down from Durham in membership office with me Slippery and smooth as ever

A lifetime in opposition

41:00 very important this

Compare the raucous atmospheres of the 1990's with today's corporate all seater stadiums. Progress?

Up the Boro

TV Eye didn't do themselves any favours by inviting Austin Mitchell to this debate. Very aggressive and abusive speaker and prone to interrupting and shouting down anyone who disagreed with him (as he accused Militant of doing), as well as someone with a long history of misogyny. No wonder he never went anywhere in politics.

A kind hearted human being. I never agreed with either Socialism or his views on the market, but, even than he presented an interesting analysis on a wide variety of matter pertinent to social, public and economic policies.

I bet Thatcher was laughing like hell if she watched this.😂😂😂

Same old Marxist claptrap

Some clear examples here of how poor his judgement was. He talks about how the British establishment was set on keeping Britain in the EU as a protection against socialism. And yet when we left, it was led by the establishment right. Establishment right wingers like Farage and Reese Mogg who want to abolish worker protection and let the free market run rampage. Tony Benn, as with so much of the radical left, only ever ended up being the useful idiots of the radical right. Not surprising that he was close friends with a lot of right wing Tories like Enoch Powell and later David Davies

Absolutely fascinating

Austin and John wiping the floor with those two disgusting Trots.

just another central planner dreaming about complete control that never works

40 years later and the only time a Labour has been in government was when they moved to the centre

What a complete, utter, deluded wanker Benn was. Knew fuck all about real life, lived in a fantasy world of left wing mental masturbation, surrounded by lick spittle middle class leftie toss pots. Single handedly responsible for the rise and success of Thatcher. Betrayed the very people he claimed to represent.

The right wingers kept control and eventually that meant a MILLION Iraqis lost they’re loved as a result!!! Don’t tell me that’s a good thing!

Frank their Feild running from the battle again!!!! Total Tory infiltrator

So Militant was purged from the Labour Party and we got Neil Kinnock, Tony Blair, Ed Miliband and finally the joker in the pack Jeremy Corbyn we have been swept from Scotland and now swept from the "Red Wall" in the north. Opponents of our continued membership of the EU virtually excluded. The idealogues who once influenced party policy towards socialism are either dead or disowned. Meanwhile the tory party can appoint Public School buffoons to the premiership safe from any serious opposition. Yes, congratulations you witch-hunters you have taken the spine from a once great political party.

4 dacades later - fuck all change

The best prime minister this country never had a man who stood up for the working class was true to his believes RIP Tony you are greatly missed

Militant Tendency (now Momentum) could never exist on their own with the policies and ideolgy they espose so they had to remain hidden, and what better disguise to remain hidden in plain sight.

Labour hasn't changed. Apart from abandoning the people the people who had voted for them for decades. Militant Tendency have simply become Momentum. Same objective same goals same people, no change and they were constantly whispering in the ear of the wonderful Jeremy Corbin.

Honest people like benn who arent puppets of dark forces are absolutely gone. Its gonna take a revolution and the jailing of the entire media and political class for treason to bring back decent people.

I so admire Tony Benn

he certainly looked more prime ministerial than any of his contemparies or successors

13:23 note how the Common Market (European Union in infant stage) is regarded as a BAD thing by left wing activists in 1982.