Harold J. Laski: “No one who has watched at all carefully the process of governance in time of war can doubt that criticism was never more…”

How could it seek security where it defied the desires of the vast majority of its subjects?

There is no danger that the general strike will ever be other than a weapon of last resort; the occasions when it can be successfully used will be of the utmost rarity.

Wilkes was a sign that the populace was slowly awaking to a sense of its own power.

But when trade unions seek for what they regard as justice, one of their most powerful sources of strength is the awakening of the slow and inert public to a sense of the position.