YOU DON’T HEAR pledges like this in Town Halls corridors of England any more. In fact, this sort of talk has seldom been heard in Town Hall corridors – much more often, it’s been said in the streets outside them.
“I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving.”
Sylvia Pankhurst, suffragette and socialist, 1882-1960
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