Respect Renewal was a faction that existed during the 2007-8 split within Respect – The Unity Coalition a UK political party.
Respect Renewal was led by Linda Smith, the National Chair, Leader and Nominating Officer of Respect, and was formed in November 2007. Its supporters included George Galloway MP, Ken Loach, Victoria Brittain, Salma Yaqoob and Nick Wrack.
Read more about Respect Renewal: History, Criticisms of Respect Renewal
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“Even better than respect is obedience.”
—Chinese proverb.
“We sing the funeral, as goes the custom, with the hymn of the Dead. But Manuel, he chose a hymn for the living: the song of the coumbite, the song of the earth, of the water, the plants, of fellowship between peasants because he wanted, as I now understand it, that his death for you be the renewal of life.”
—Jacques Roumain (1907–1945)