Jan Marijnissen is a distinguished Dutch politician, born in Oss.
Interviewed on television earlier this year he surprised a number of viewers when he chose
an extract from a filmed interview with Howard Hodgkin for London Weekend Television in
1996:
http://www.vpro.nl/programma/zomergasten/afleveringen/43463163/
Marijnissen’s book, Enough! A Socialist Bites Back, published in a revised edition, translated
by Steve McGiffen, in 2006, is now available as a free download on line.
The British Labour politician Tony Benn said of it, ‘Above all this book will give hope – at the
moment when we need it most.’