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Tony Benn
Age: 88 †
Born: 1925
Born: April 3
Died: 2014
Died: March 14
Autobiographer
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Former Member Of The European Parliament
Politician
Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
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The peace movement didn't stop the Iraq but I think that Blair would not be able to go along and support an Iranian war.
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I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.
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If democracy is ever to be threatened, it will not be by revolutionary groups burning government offices and occupying the broadcasting and newspaper offices of the world. It will come from disenchantment, cynicism and despair caused by the realisation that the New World Order means we are all to be managed and not represented.
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The peace movement here is the biggest thing in human history.
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Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.
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