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Into the archives: Tony Benn on the true power of democracy
As Britain celebrates May Day, the Star republishes an interview with workers’ champion Tony Benn which first appeared in the paper on October 24 2003

It’s going to be one hell of a struggle,” says Benn. “The national liberation struggle that we’re involved in.

“It is a struggle against international and US imperialism and international capitalism. It’s on the scale of the task which faced the Tolpuddle Martyrs. It is about the right to govern ourselves.”

By way of example, Benn asks: “How can it be, as it is under EU rules, illegal for us to elect a government that reverses privatisation?”

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