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| | CPGB: History of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06) |
 | | The Communist Party was the decisive force in the General Strike of 1926, when it held the leadership positions in the most militant unions and had more than 10,000 members. |
 | | However, the defeat of the General Strike, for which the Communist Party carried a major responsibility, and the subsequent reaction, reduced the Party’s vote to 75,000 in the 1931 General Election and membership of the party fell to 6,000. |
 | | Following the collapse of the communist government in the Soviet Union in 1991, the remaining 6,300 members of the Communist Party of Great Britain renamed themselves the Democratic Left, while those who rejected the abandonment of the “communist” label left to form the Communist Party of Britain. |
| www.marxists.org /history/international/comintern/sections/britain/history.htm (427 words) |
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