“We want industry to be in the public sector, to change the power structure of our society…We have not yet carved out of public enterprise a wide enough area of management decision which ought properly to be brought within the ambit of the workers themselves.”

— Tony Benn

Speech in Brighton (6 October 1971)
1970s

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British Labour Party politician 1925–2014

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