“What is very important is to hammer out some kind of common minimum program. People need to leave some of their old disputes and disagreements at the door – not to give up their individual points of view but to realise that the trouble with wanting a realignment of the left around everything that you agree with is that everybody else wants the same thing too! So there has to be some kind of element of cooperation and goodwill.” Interview with Keith Bennett on the Crispin Flintoff Show.

“Eighty years on, it remains the case that the Soviet Union’s victory in the Great Patriotic War and China’s victory in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression are the fundamental basis for an international order based on peace, democracy and the rights of peoples and nations.” Keith Bennett in interview with China Daily.

On 28 April 2025, a visiting delegation of scholars from the School of Marxism at Shanghai’s Fudan University attended a meeting at the London School of Economics called in their honour by Friends of Socialist China (FOSC) and the International Manifesto Group (IMG). Keith Bennett, Patron of the Institute for Independence Studies, was in attendance. The aims and activities of the Institute’s Xi Jinping Study Group were outlined to the visiting scholars by its Secretary.