Morning Star , Monday 22 March 2010 Reviewed by John Green Many today will not remember the legendary Labour MP Fenner Brockway, who died in 1988. Hopefully, this reissue of the first volume of his autobiography by Spokesman Books will make him better known to a new generation. Like Tony Benn, Brockway was one of those rare figures who started early on as a principled socialist and remained so to the end of his life. His political career spanned the bulk of the 20th century and for most of that time he was at the centre of progressive politics nationally and internationally. He was a founder member, among other organisations, of the Independent Labour Party (ILP), the Movement for Colonial Freedom - now Liberation - War on Want and CND. He became an MP for the ILP at a very young age and, after its demise, for the Labour Party. Vehemently anti-war, he spent several years in various prisons as a conscientious objector during the first world war. His description of the treatment he and ...