Communist Party of Britain
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Abbreviation | CPB |
General Secretary | Robert Griffiths[1][2] |
Chair | Ruth Styles[3] |
Vice-Chair | Tony Conway Mollie Brown |
Founded | 31 July 1920Communist Party of Great Britain) 23 April 1988[4] | (As
Split from | Communist Party of Great Britain |
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Headquarters | Ruskin House, Croydon, London |
Newspaper | Communist Review Communist Women Unity! |
Youth wing | Young Communist League |
Membership (2023) | 1,308[5] |
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Political position | Far-left[9] |
National affiliation | Unity for Peace and Socialism [10] Co-ordinating Committee of Communist Parties in Britain No2EU (2009–2014) |
International affiliation | IMCWP |
Colours | Red and gold |
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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.
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).
The Communist Party remains the only political party affiliated to the Scottish Cuba Solidarity Campaign