"The time has arrived for the working classes to seize political power and use it to overthrow the competitive system and establish in its place state cooperation."
— George Lansbury

January 1, 1970

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Speech in Todmorden, Lancashire, reported in the Todmorden Advertiser and Hebden Bridge Newsletter (29 November 1895), quoted in John Shepherd, George Lansbury: At the Heart of Old Labour (2002), p. 47