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Thursday, 24 February, 2000, 14:23 GMT

One hundred years of Labour

The Labour Party celebrated its centenary on Sunday 27 February, 100 years which have seen it grow from a workers' movement to a party that in 1997 claimed support across all elements of British society. BBC News Online looks at the party's past and its future.

Callaghan
Foot
Kinnock
Blair

Four Labour leaders tell BBC News Online about what the party means to them.

Labour voices
Some of Labour's most significant figures reflect on the party's development over the past 100 years.

Denis Healey: Two decades of civil war

Bryan Gould: A souffl� of good intentions

Tony Benn: Lessons of history

Tony Wright: An extremely young party

Barbara Castle: A party rooted in social justice

Tebbit
Scargill
Williams

Three of Labour's sternest critics give their views of the party.

Head to Head
A Labour moderniser and a keeper of the Old Labour faith battle it out over where the party goes from here.

Philip Gould: "The mission remains the same"

Mark Seddon: "The party's dazed and confused"

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Labour On The Record

Nick Assinder: Sacrifices in the scramble for power

Nick Jones: Reflecting on rapid change

Barbara Castle writes on Labour's roots

John Edmonds: The view from the unions

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Norman Tebbit: Labour's conflict of interest

Arthur Scargill: Party purged of socialism

Shirley Williams: Bedrock concepts eroded

One hundred years of Labour

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