Communist Party of Britain
British political party
The Communist Party of Britain (CPB) is a communist party in Great Britain. It was made because of a dispute between Eurocommunists and Marxist-Leninists in the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1988.[7] It is friends with the Cuba Solidarity Campaign[8] and the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign. The party was one of two British political parties that signed the Pyongyang Declaration.
Communist Party of Britain Communist Pairty o Breetain (Scots) Pàrtaidh Co-Mhaoineach na Breatainn (Scottish Gaelic) Plaid Gomiwnyddol Prydain (Welsh) Parti Gemynwer Breten (Cornish) | |
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| General Secretary | Robert David Griffiths[1] |
| Chair | Ruth Styles[1][2] |
| Vice-Chair | Tony Conway Mollie Brown |
| Founded | 1988[3] |
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| Headquarters | Ruskin House, Croydon, London |
| Newspaper | Communist Review Unity! |
| Youth wing | Young Communist League |
| Membership (2022) |  1,485+[a][4][5] |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Far-left[6] |
| National affiliation | Stop the War Coalition |
| International affiliation | IMCWP |
| Colours | Red and gold |
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| Website | |
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Notes
change- ↑ Membership number includes members of the Young Communist League.
References
change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Peoples Printing Press Society (12 January 2015). "Communists slam Western hypocrisy over terror". Morning Star. Archived from the original on 1 August 2015.
- ↑ Peltier, Elian (10 February 2020). "Even in Death, Marx Can't Escape Surveillance". The New York Times. p. 11.
- ↑ "Communist Party of Great Britain – History Section". marxists.org. Marxist Internet Archive. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
A period of intense factional struggle saw the Party's membership drop astronomically over the period from 1984. A phase of mass expulsions of many hundreds of Morning Star supporters saw many of them 're-establish' the Communist Party in 1988, taking the name Communist Party of Britain (CPB).
- ↑ Communist Party of Britain: Report and Accounts for the Year Ended 31 December 2020 (Report). Electoral Commission. 31 December 2020. p. 2. ST0023302.
- ↑ Nowak, Tomasz (11 February 2022). "The eclipse and re-emergence of the Young Communist League". Young Communist League.
- ↑ Barberis, Peter; McHugh, John; Tyldesley, Mike (2000). "Far Left". Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations: Parties, Groups and Movements of the 20th Century. London: A&C Black. p. 145. ISBN 0826458149.
- ↑ "1988–97 Re-establishing the Party". Communist Party. 1 February 2012. Archived from the original on 23 September 2017. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
- ↑ "Solidarity". Communist Party Scottish Congress 2004. Scotland: Communist Party. 2004. Archived from the original on 1 February 2013. Retrieved 19 March 2013.
The Communist Party remains the only political party affiliated to the Scottish Cuba Solidarity Campaign
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