David Miliband will tomorrow present his blueprint for re-building the Labour party, announcing he is to channel a sizable portion of his campaign funds into re-training a thousand Labour supporters as community organisers over the next three months.
Attempting the first complete overhaul of a British political party with the techniques that helped Barack Obama into the White House, Miliband wants to turn the Labour party into a grassroots "movement for change".
The philosophy of political action, theorised by the American activist Saul Alinsky in the 1930s, and made more famous by Obama, seeks to organise individuals into groups to better help them change their communities. It is aimed at politicians of all stripes as established parties struggle to retain members.
Good luck with that.
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