A bit of a journalistic hatchet job, and some strange juxtapositions - on one hand Militant is portrayed as an ultra-disciplined, well-resourced dedicated revolutionary cadre, on the other hand the entire regional headquarters for some areas is one bloke and a rented room above a pub with some books. I'm not a revolutionary, but I'm comfortable sharing the broad church labour party with people to the left, unlike many, and I still believe Kinnock (and now Starmer) are wrong to punch left. The logic is that it makes them seem responsible, aligned to the establishment and more like a government in waiting, but at what cost? Surely the enemy are to the right of us? And if you believe the real enemy is to the left, should you be in a Labour Party? Having said that, I do believe in democracy, and would rather live in a democracy than an undemocratic socialist state. But the answer to that isn't for the right of the Labour party to fix elections, impose candidates and expel people, it's to introduce more democracy - open selections of MPS, open primaries. If you want to reduce the risk of anti-democratic elements taking over a local party, then expand the franchise, don't restrict it.
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