‘You can work as research assistant to Ralph Miliband.’ Thus my tutor at the London School of Economics gave me the news that he had found a way for me to finance my first year of study for an intended PhD on the Labour party’s housing policy between the world wars.
Ann Carlton
I was Ralph Miliband’s research assistant, and this is what he was like
He didn't hate Britain, but he did want it to be Communist

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