Communist Party of Britain

Communist Party of Britain
AbbreviationCPB
General SecretaryRobert Griffiths[1][2]
ChairRuth Styles[3]
Vice-ChairTony Conway
Mollie Brown
Founded31 July 1920 (1920-07-31) (As Communist Party of Great Britain)
23 April 1988 (1988-04-23)[4]
Split fromCommunist Party of Great Britain
Preceded by
HeadquartersRuskin House, Croydon, London
NewspaperCommunist Review
Communist Women
Unity!
Youth wingYoung Communist League
Membership (2023)1,308[5]
Ideology
Political positionFar-left[9]
National affiliationUnity for Peace and Socialism [10]
Co-ordinating Committee of Communist Parties in Britain
No2EU (2009–2014)
International affiliationIMCWP
Colours    Red and gold
Election symbol
[11]
Party flag
Website
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The Communist Party of Britain (CPB) is a communist party in Great Britain which emerged from a dispute between Eurocommunists and Marxist-Leninists in the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1988.[12] It follows Marxist-Leninist theory and supports what it regards as existing socialist states. The party has fraternal relationships with the ruling parties in Cuba, China, Laos, and Vietnam. It is affiliated nationally to the Cuba Solidarity Campaign[13] and the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign. It is a member of the International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties,[14] together with 117 other political parties. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the party was one of two original British signatories to the Pyongyang Declaration.

  1. ^ Peoples Printing Press Society (12 January 2015). "Communists slam Western hypocrisy over terror". Morning Star. Archived from the original on 1 August 2015.
  2. ^ Martin Graham (23 April 2019). Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2018 (Report). Communist Party. p. 2.
  3. ^ CP of Britain (10 October 2024). "CP SLAMS LABOUR'S "BIG BUSINESS AND WAR" PRIORITIES".
  4. ^ "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).
  5. ^ "REPORT AND ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2023". search.electoralcommission.org.uk. 31 December 2023. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
  6. ^ https://www.communistparty.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Communist-Party-Progressive-federalism-4.pdf
  7. ^ https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/progressive-federalism-working-peoples-britain
  8. ^ https://www.communistreview.org.uk/progressive-federalisms-role-in-alliances-policy-and-communist-party-growth/
  9. ^ 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 0-8264-5814-9.
  10. ^ "Advocating the socialist project / Features / Home – Morning Star". Archived from the original on 14 November 2010.
  11. ^ The Communist Party uses both the hammer and dove and the hammer and sickle on ballot slips.
  12. ^ "1988–97 Re-establishing the Party". Communist Party. 1 February 2012. Archived from the original on 23 September 2017. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
  13. ^ "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
  14. ^ March, Luke (August 2023). "Left-Wing Extremism in the UK: The Struggle for Relevance". In Pedro Zúquete, José (ed.). The Palgrave Handbook of Left-Wing Extremism. Springer. p. 213. ISBN 978-3-031-30897-0.

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