Bernie Sanders the veteran US socialist representative for Vermont is 85 today
Five years ago he was in London talking about class war. The Guardian’s account is here:
Arguably one of the great nearly men of US politics he has continued to press for US domestic policies in favour of working people in the second Trump era. His position on international issues is much less certain and not always progressive however.
He has been over the years a disliked figure on the right both in the US and the UK on the basis that while certainly not offering revolution he proposed more radical change than those making good profits out of the status quo felt entirely comfortable with.
In 2009 Sanders met Tony Benn:
Tony Benn Diary Monday 10th November 2009
Bernard Sanders the Socialist Senator for Vermont came by with his brother Larry Sanders who is a Green Councillor in Oxford. Bernie is 67 and Larry 73. We went over everything- Obama’s victory, a possible surge in Afghanistan….
Unfortunately Bernie Sanders has never had a beard..
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