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	CPGB – The Final Countdown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Although CPGB members wielded a tiny influence in terms of winning positions and policy arguments, the fact that they were able to expose the undemocratic practices of Scargill and the various low level factional wars that took place inside the SLP meant that the Weekly Worker was able to win itself a much larger audience.
		For example, when the CPGB discussed the SA’s attitude toward a Euro referendum last year, it was suggested that the majority of the SA would agree a "no" position, and the CPGB would have to abide by the decision and fight for the position in the labour movement.
		The majority tend to parrot the decisions of the Central Committee, and the opposition tends to be sterile and lifeless in its arguments.
	www.whatnextjournal.co.uk /Pages/Back/Wnext22/Cpgb.html (2163 words)

	CPGB: Centrism, Vacillation and Capitulation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		So, as it appears from the vote of the July aggregate, the CPGB is not in favour of "solidarity", in any sense of the term, with forces fighting the occupation that it deems "reactionary".
		Manny Neira, for instance, was involved in "serious business" (serious for the CPGB, that is, in terms of loss of membership and support) when he was involved in organising a split from the CPGB to form a separate organisation, now known as the Red Party.
		Such matters, the task of organising a split from an organisation such as the CPGB, as well as the counter-activities of those who suspect that such a split is being prepared, tend by their very nature to generate heat.
	www.whatnextjournal.co.uk /Pages/Back/Wnext29/CPGB.html (3846 words)

	CPGB RED Platform
		We are a group of CPGB members and partisans fighting to win our party to a strategy which we believe will strengthen unity with other socialists, defend its democracy, and increase its size and political effectiveness.
		The CPGB to rejoin the Socialist Alliance Democracy Platform.
		Renewed emphasis on the organic growth of the CPGB.
	www.cpgb.org.uk /red (203 words)

	CPGB's Fake 'Partyism'Exposed
		The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) are well-known on the British left for their frequent invitations to all who consider themselves communist to join with them in one big communist party or, failing that, to attend their many events and seminars or write for their paper, the Weekly Worker.
		While we have differences with their conception of a communist party, the IBT is certainly in favour of political debate and in the past year since our comrades left the SLP we have participated in various CPGB-initiated events, debating crucial questions such as the transitional programme and the nature of the USSR.
		As we had hoped to move the discussions on to the higher level of focused organisation to organisation talks we suggested instead that the talks be limited to the two organisations and their supporters with no written polemics on the discussions until the series had ended.
	www.bolshevik.org /mb/8cpgbfake.htm (1650 words)

	17 dejavu
		The struggle in the CPGB over the 'New Line' marked both the last genuine political struggle within the party, and at the same time the decisive period in which the party was finally Stalinised.
		Belief in the rapid growth of revolutionary consciousness among workers, fuelled by an ever-deepening crisis of capitalism, became an article of faith, and the failure of perspectives to materialise was attributed in section after section to the failure of leaderships to implement the ultra-left turn with sufficient rigour.
		When the election was held, on May 31, the CPGB fielded 25 candidates, who polled a total of 50,000 votes, or 5.3 per cent of the vote in the seats it contested.
	www.workersaction.org.uk /17dejavu.htm (4967 words)

	A Plan But Not A Clue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The SA conference decision of which the CPGB is so inordinately proud, is exposed as a classic and self-defeating example of such an approach.
		While correctly the CPGB insist the "age of the sect is dead" they are also more than happy to kill off the concept of the ‘big working class tent’ almost casually.
		In contrast to the CPGB who are seemingly set on constructing a politically barren environment with constitutional barriers against any unwelcome working class incursions that might dilute the existing revolutionary hegemony the SWP are complimenting this conservatism by ensuring that the SA’s remain socially homogeneous as well.
	www.redaction.org /lsa/a_plan.html (2060 words)

	Censorship
		Andy Hannah, a supporter/member of the CPGB since 1992, severed his ties with the organisation in the aftermath of its April aggregate.
		Following receipt of this letter a climate of opinion was engendered in the CPGB in which comrade Hannah was treated with considerable contempt.
		Other differences, particularly over the inability of the CPGB to arrive at a consistent, comprehensible position on Respect and the war of liberation in Iraq, contributed to this decision.
	www.socialistunitynetwork.co.uk /voices/letter.htm (2126 words)

	David Renton and James Eaden, The Communist Party of Great Britain since 1920
		Never a mass party, unlike the European comrades, the CPGB in 1920-21 welded together a disparate collection of organisations that were either pessimistically sectarian or triumphalistically over-optimistic, to forge a party that was to be predominant over the left beyond the Labour Party for nearly 70 years.
		The CPGB was until the late 1970s among the poorest of the European CPs in terms of membership and finance, yet it was still loyal to the USSR and the Stalinist legacy.
		The CPGB vacillated between united and popular frontism, seeking to 'march together while striking separately' around unemployment in the 1920s and 1930s, and 'uniting the bishops and brickies' around the Second World War, anti-racism and peace.
	www.dkrenton.co.uk /books/cpgb.html (7752 words)

	Socialist History Project
		Some CPGB branches were able to affiliate to their local Labour Parties, and to participate in city and regional conferences.
		This policy was codified in a joint statement issued by the Executive of the CPGB and the Executive of the Communist International on February 6, 1924.
		With the assistance of Lenin and the leadership of the Third International, the CPGB was able to overcome this sectarianism, to avoid the opposite danger of adapting to Labour’s backwardness, and to formulate a clear revolutionary policy.
	www.socialisthistory.ca /Essays/British_LP_3.htm (2757 words)

	Class strategies and British Communism
		As L. Macfarlane argued, over thirty years ago, 'The Communist Party was first and foremost a Marxist party.' The CPGB should not be judged primarily in terms of the success of its industrial militants in building a base for themselves in the factories, but rather in terms of the goals which the party set itself.
		The CPGB blamed Jimmy Thomas, leader of the National Union of Railwaymen for pulling the plug.
		The CPGB slogan 'All power to the General Council' exaggerated the potential of the Trade Union Congress as a revolutionary body, it also tended to sow illusions in the left-wing leaders on the TUC General Council.
	www.dkrenton.co.uk /research/cppaper.html (5719 words)

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		The essential political argument remains, but the citations from V.I. Lenin that demonstrate that the Bolsheviks made precisely the same distinction in giving military, but not political, support to Kerensky against Kornilov in 1917 as we do today in defending Iraq, were entirely deleted.
		CPGB comrades have advised us that the letter was cut solely for space, but we rather wonder if the editors did not also feel a bit uncomfortable arguing against Lenin.
		The Weekly Worker’s report (February 20th, 2003) of the CPGB's Feb 16th public meeting on "The war and the revolutionary party" distorts the positions of the International Bolshevik Tendency on several issues--particularly on the distinction between military and political support.
	www.bolshevik.org /Leaflets/Reply_to_CPGB.html (789 words)

	Kate Hudson: Britain in the 1990s: the crisis of socialist theory and prospects for the left (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The CPGB leadership was not prepared to engage in these, and the development of these debates was primarily taken up by the New Left.
		The new ideas were divorced from the movement they were presumably intended to serve; and the CPGB was unwilling to take those ideas to the working class - or even seriously to consider them.
		The other organization which succeeded the CPGB after its dissolution in 1991 is Democratic Left (DL), which won majority support for its foundation at the last Congress of the CPGB.
	members.tripod.com /eszmelet/angol2/hudsonang2.html (2069 words)

	CPGB/WW: snap out of it! \| Workers' Liberty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		AWL and CPGB have been able to work together often because, despite all that, we have the common ground on important large-scale political issues which I referred to at the start of this comment.
		I suspect many of the younger newer 'cpgb' members are not fully aware of the political history of their leadership.
		The thrust of Harry's argument seems to be that the public declarations of the CPGB are either wildly at variance with their real views, or are deeply unstable.
	www.workersliberty.org /node/320 (2990 words)

	Anti-Parliamentarism and Communism in Britain, 1917-1921 - Title
		Indeed, until the formation of the CPGB, which took upon itself the definition of all things 'communist', it would not be too much of an exaggeration to say that the anti-parliamentary and communist movements were synonymous.
		It is clear that after the formation of the CPGB in August 1920 the new party was subject to a Comintern directive to unite with other selected revolutionary groups on the basis of the 'Twenty-One Conditions'.
		As a result of such retreats and the consolidation of the CPGB, what was left of the evolving revolutionary and anti-parliamentary movement came to be centred on The Spur and Guy Aldred.
	www.geocities.com /athens/acropolis/8195/jones/jones.htm (6621 words)

	IV
		The CPGB sought at first a united front with the ILP to be, followed by actual unity.
		The 1934 conference of the ILP at York was a disappointment to the CPGB and an encouragement to the Trotskyists.
		The turn of the CPGB from sectarian opposition to the united front to unity at any price was permitting Citrine and others to use their slogans in order to sell an anti-working class policy.
	www.revolutionary-history.co.uk /Upham/04Upham.html (14964 words)

	The CPGB biographical project: an introduction
		The tensions CPGB activists experienced between the ideologies, cultures and structures of trade unionism on the one hand and the CPGB on the other as a focus for allegiance and identity were an essential starting point for our investigation.
		So, for example, within one factory and one CPGB branch, condemned by the local leadership as 'economistic', it is possible to distinguish between the cautious pragmatism of its strongest influence, formed in clandestine activity in the pre-war years and productionism during World War II, and his more 'principled and political' successor.
		In the CPGB’s case, only the second of these claims is self-evidently true of the period in question, but that may of course indicate the party’s divergence from patterns evident elsewhere.
	les.man.ac.uk /cpgb/ProjectIntroduction.htm (11311 words)

	Got on a comment
		Andy Newman's comments regarding the CPGB in his article 'In Defence of the SWP' seem to be spot on regarding the CPGB's ropey and ill-informed polemics against the SWP and Respect.
		As the CPGB's one-time leading exponent of a proper, constructive engagement with the Respect project, I have to say that some of the alleged flaws he cites from people who have left them on both sides of this argument are incompatible with each other.
		Ultimately, it was because of criticism of their opportunism and complicity with these breaches of democratic centralism that the CPGB leadership moved against the previously extensive party democracy that had existed prior to these events.
	www.socialistunitynetwork.co.uk /voices/defence2.htm (767 words)

	John Manley \| Moscow Rules? 'Red' Unionism and 'Class Against Class' in Britain, Canada, and the United States, ...
		The CPGB was embedded in a labour movement with significant strengths, its historic defeat in the 1926 General Strike notwithstanding: the General Strike was straddled by the first and second Labour minority governments.
		For the CPGB, "the enemy" was not the Trades Union Congress (after all, less than three years earlier it had called for "all power" to the TUC General Council), but the Labour Party.
		By 1930 CPGB membership had plummeted to 2,500, while a plenum of the CPC Central Committee (which substituted for the regular two-yearly party convention — cancelled because the party was broke and bleeding) announced a combined party-YCL membership of just over 2,000.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/llt/56/manley.html (11246 words)

	III
		Parting of the ways with the CPGB may have been delayed by the party decision to close the discussion on the January resolution, on 24 June.
		This faction, the Revolutionary Policy Committee, later became dominated by fellow travellers of the CPGB At this time however, it was dissatisfied with the communists and open in its views.
		Its case was that the Section must face not a declining CPGB, but the ILP, that it must help the ILP to become 'the revolutionary lever influencing the masses of the Labour Party and of the trade unions'.
	www.revolutionary-history.co.uk /Upham/03Upham.html (9720 words)

	LENINISM AND THE STRUGGLE AGAINST OPPORTUNISM
		The struggle of opportunism against Marxisn-Leninism is, objectively speaking, part of the struggle of the capitalist class against revolution, while being a subjective reflection of petty-bourgeois scatter-brained eclecticism, expressing an hostility and petty-bourgeois incornprehension of dialectical reasoning or logic, which inevitably must lead to a struggle against Leninism.
		The Marxist-Leninist basis of the CPGB has long been demolished; the real basis of the party is petty-bourgeois opportunism, which, after the 40th congress has moved the party further to the right.
		What we can say for certain is that we are part of the struggle against those individuals who want to disarm the politically conscious section of the working class with their opportunist views.
	website.lineone.net /~partisan_britain/foundation/lenstrug.html (1156 words)

	Communists and the British Labour Party
		The CPGB in the late 1920s was a party whose members remained dedicated to the victory of revolutionary socialism — if anything they were impatient for its victory.
		Belief in the rapid growth of revolutionary consciousness among workers, fuelled by an ever-deepening crisis of capitalism, became an article of faith, and the failure of perspectives to materialise was attributed in section after section to the failure of leaderships to implement the ultraleft turn with sufficient rigour.
		This contradicts the view that "lmost always the CPGB itself stood to the right of the Stalinist majority in the International" — J. Hinton and R. Hyman, Trade Unions and Revolution: The Industrial Politics of the Early Communist Party, Pluto, 1975, p.
	members.optushome.com.au /spainter/Price.html (5293 words)

	ON THE SPLIT WITHIN the REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNIST GROUP
		It is not a question of seeking to 'attack the CPGB' for its own sake - the very act of arguing for an independent working class position on the question of South Africa necessarily leads to confronting the chauvinist approach of the CPGB.
		The new orientation adopted by the MFPC seeks to split the CPGB by adapting to its politics.
		The speed with which this new and unprincipled orientation to the CPGB was imposed on the group is the same speed with which political opposition was dealt with.
	freespace.virgin.net /dave.simons9/RCT.htm (2409 words)

	The burial of the CPGB
		During all the ballyhoo over this (it probably only surprised members of the CPGB), the editor of Changes, a fortnightly publication of the rapidly demising CPGB, said in a letter to the Guardian: Trotskyists may wish to defend the beginnings of the CPGB before it was stalinised - if so they are welcome to it.
		There may be criticisms of the WSF and its activities, but its ability to fight can not be in doubt, Klugmann in his «official» history of the CPGB characterises Sylvia Pankhurst, who came from the middle class, as a person difficult to get along with (like so many members of her class).
		It is part of the mythology of the CPGB that this was the culmination of the «Hands Off Russia» Campaign inspired by the BSP.
	www.sinistra.net /lib/upt/comlef/coso/cosoecibee.html (3532 words)

	The 'Black Circulars' and Communist Party of Great Britain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The CPGB on the other hand launched a counter offensive with equal venom by accusing some Trade Union barons of failing to defend their members' interests and democratising their organisations in order to avoid accountability.
		The CPGB had in fact advocated the closed shop, initiated recruitment drives to sign up non-trade union members and thereby assisting unions, and believed in the merger of unions as a practical and necessary step forward in the struggle against capitalism.
		Since the TUC had no authority to impose the ban on members of the CPGB amongst its affiliated Unions, it was left to the autonomy of individual Unions to decide.
	www.wcml.org.uk /tu/black_circulars.htm (1449 words)

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		He dutifully followed the CPGB into the political wasteland of its Social Fascist period and let himself be publicly censured by the party for allowing his five children to be initiated into Zoroastrianism.
		It was said that this was due either to his connections with the wealthy Tata family or to his religious beliefs, or to either his independence of mind or his lack of Marxist-Leninist theory.
		However, considering that the CPGB's weekly paper The Communist headlined a story 'Outcry Against the Black Horror' in 1922 about the French using fl troops to occupy the Rhineland, one begins to wonder if other forces were not at play that are still with us today.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/fline/fl1524/15240750.htm (819 words)

	The Scottish debate: For a Bold Step Forward
		Other groupings which combined to form the CPGB included branches of the reformist Independent Labour Party (ILP); syndicalists from the Socialist Labour Party; and assorted sectarians and centrists (defined by Trotsky as those trends that are between reformism and Marxism).
		Thus in the East Woolwich by-election in March 1921, the CPGB launched an abstentionist campaign, denouncing the Tories and Labour as "two of a kind" - even though Lenin and the Communist International had argued strongly for Communist participation in the Labour Party.
		The CPGB even boasted that their campaign had cost Labour the seat (by 683 votes out of 27,000).
	www.marxist.net /scotland/1998/bold.htm (5732 words)

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