Ralph Miliband published the Parliamentary Road to Socialism in 1961 a study of the then six decades of the existence of Labour Party. His key point was that Labour was much more interested in procedures and Parliament than it was in socialism.
One of Ralph Miliband’s sons Ed is currently a Labour Minister and to his credit (recent New Statesman interview) he hasnt entirely forgotten what his father wrote.
Ralph Miliband however could never quite decide if socialists should be in or out of the Labour Party.
The recent decision of the Your Party CEC to exclude anyone found to be self identifying as an organised socialist is somewhere in that area. If, say, Andy Burnham rather than Starmer was Labour leader might they not call it quits and re-join?
Time will tell, although no doubt there remain some good activists in Your Party and uniting to fight the right is more important than pondering internal processes.
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