Democracynow.org
March 14, 2014
Tony Benn, the former British Cabinet minister, longtime Parliament
member and antiwar activist, has died at the age of 88. He was the
longest-serving member of Parliament in the history of Britain’s Labour
Party, serving more than half a century. He left Parliament in 2001,
saying he planned to "spend more time on politics." In 2009 he appeared
on Democracy Now! to talk about the war in Afghanistan and Britain’s
fight for a nationalized healthcare system. "You’ve got to judge a
country by whether its needs are met and not just by whether some people
make a profit," Benn said. "I’ve never met Mr. Dow Jones, and I’m sure
he works very, very hard with his averages — we get them every hour —
but I don’t think the happiness of a nation is decided by the share
values in Wall Street."
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