'If our children understand their rights came from, where their power comes from, they are the stronger, we are the stronger as a society, he said.
Mr Corbyn said people would be encouraged to stand up to the Establishment if they learnt more about the party's history. 'Hence the trade unions, hence the Labour party, hence this incredible socialist tradition.'Īt the launch of a book about former Labour leader Keir Hardie (right), Mr Corbyn said history lessons should be overhauled in his honour 'It was ordinary people not taking it longer, not taking the landlordism and all the controls that went with that, not taking the injustice and saying no we are going to do things differently and we're going to create our own institutions to do things differently. 'The other side of it is how we won our rights and we won our freedoms and how we won our NHS and all those other things in Britain. 'You need to get the story from the people where the Empire expanded into rather than those that came there to take control of it. 'One is the expansion of one empire at the expense of people in the places where that empire expanded. But there's two other things that need to be added to that. 'Yes, the wars and all that of course they are very important, of course the history of European expansion is very important. You need to get the story from the people where the Empire expanded into rather than those that came there to take control of it