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  Communist Party of Great Britain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The party was founded in 1920 after the Third International decided that greater attempts should be made to establish communist parties across the world.
In the 1935 general election William Gallacher was elected as the communist party's first MP elected as a member of the party and not under the banner of the Labour Party as with its earlier MPs.
The CPGB reached its peak in 1943 and in the 1945 general election, the communist party received 103,000 votes, and two Communists were elected as members of parliament one of whom was the aforementioned Gallacher, the other one was Phil Piratin who won Mile End in London's East End.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Communist_Party_of_Great_Britain   (2810 words)

  
 cpgb   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Throughout the 1920s and most of the 1930s, instead of building a party based on mass membership, the CPGB decided to follow the Leninist doctrine that communist parties should be run by a revolutionary cadre.
In the 1935 general election William Gallacher was elected as the communist party's first MP for West Fife in Scotland.
The CPGB reached its peak in the 1940s when at the 1945 general election, the communist party received 103,000 votes, and two Communists were elected as members of parliament one of whom was the aforementioned Gallacher, the other one was Phil Piratin who won in Mile End east London.
www.yourencyclopedia.net /CPGB.html   (837 words)

  
 Communist Parties of the World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
(Strana Demokratickej L'avice, SDL'), formerly the Communist Party of Slovakia (KSS)
(Narodno-Demokratychna Partiya, NDP), Ukraine, one of the successors of the the Communist Party of Ukraine (KPU)
(Sotsialistychna Partiya Ukrainy, SPU), one of the successors of the the Communist Party of Ukraine (KPU)
www.broadleft.org /communis.htm   (1293 words)

  
 Communist Party of Great Britain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Of more importance was Khruschev's Secret Speech at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which was first published in English in The Observer newspaper, and then the events of 1956 in Poland and Hungary.
However in Britain the CPGB was to experience it's greatest ever loss of membership as a result of the intervention of the Warsaw Pact armies and their crushing of the Central Workers Council in Budapest.
By 1977 factionalism in the party had reached breaking point and many of the anti-Eurocommunists had decided that they needed to form their own anti-revisionist Communist party.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/communist_party_of_great_britain   (2480 words)

  
 RED GROUPS OF THE UK
Communist Party of Britain: Formed in April of 1988 by the Communist Campaign Group for the purpose of re-creating a united Communist Party for England.
New Communist Party: The NCP was a Stalinist split from the late Communist Party of Great Britain.
Socialist Party: The SP was originally founded by a former member of the Trotskyist Revolutionary Communist Party, Ted Grant, in the 1970’s around the publication Militant.
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 List of Communist Parties   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The formation of communist parties in various countries was first initiated by the formation of the communist Third International by the Russian Bolsheviks.
Moldova - Communist Party of the Republic of Moldova
Denmark - Communist Party of Denmark, Communist Party in Denmark
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/L/List-of-Communist-Parties.htm   (1078 words)

  
 Political Situation feature
All three sprang from the old Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) which finally dissolved itself in 1991 Its successor, the "Democratic Left" is an irrelevant debating society which largely supports the right-wing Blair leadership of the Labour Party.
The Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist), which broke-away from the old CPGB in 1968 under the leadership of Reg Birch, a leading engineering union official, in opposition to revisionism and in support of the Communist Party of China's general line.
The New Communist Party (NCP) was formed in 1977 as part of the struggle against revisionism with the CPGB and it publishes the weekly New Worker.
www.newworker.org /polit.htm   (2146 words)

  
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 Bolshevism and Trotskyism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Building such programmatic convergence in a party with the strength to implement its programme is the historic task of communists today – but we cannot take shortcuts by simply bringing larger numbers together.
Leon Trotsky was a great intellect of the 20th century, one of the two towering figures of the Russian Revolution.
Some of Lenin’s other important contributions are his analysis of the nature of the imperialist epoch, his programme for addressing the national question, his development of the tactics of the united front, and his recognition of the importance of the proletarian vanguard championing the interests of the specially oppressed.
www.bolshevik.org /mb/8trotskyism.htm   (1724 words)

  
 CHNN, No 6, October 1998: Printable version
Chapter Two is a discussion of the Party's work from Operation Barbarossa to the allied invasion of north Africa and the lifting of the siege of Stalingrad at the end of 1942, generally regarded at the time as a turning point of the war.
Chapter Four examines the Party's line and practice from the Yalta Conference of early 1945 to the Party Congress of November 1945, a period in which it was mainly concerned with the post-war national and international settlements.
Although the Communist Party of the Netherlands was officially disbanded before the eyes of the television cameras in 1991 (it had merged with three other left-wing parties to form the Green Left party), it has hardly been out of the news since then.
les.man.ac.uk /chnn/CHNN06P.html   (6828 words)

  
 Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst Papers
One of the ideas she put forward very strongly was the establishment of workers' councils in Great Britain.
To be one step ahead of these, in June 1920 she rebaptized the WSF into Communist Party, British Section of the Third International (CPBSTI).
She refused to join the Communist Unity Convention in July 1920, where the first outline of the Communist Party of Great Britain came into being.
www.iisg.nl /archives/en/files/p/10765900full.php   (5783 words)

  
 ANTI-COMMUNIST ACTION ANTICOM WEB   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
I have lost track of how many people have e-mailed me saying that communism is dead, it is a spent force, Yet almost every country in the world has a national communist party.
All these parties have the same platform and the same agenda.
COMMUNIST PARTY OF GREAT BRITAIN (Provisional Central Committee)
www.niagara.com /~freedom/anticom/commie.htm   (61 words)

  
 Leninism, Communism, Socialism, Trotskyism, Stalinism, Maoism, Marxism in England and Wales
One faction stayed together to recoallesce in 1996 as the Communist Party of Greeat Britain (Provisional Central Committee), with a new open approach aimed at recreating communist unity in Britain - today this project is carried out through the Socialist Alliance, after a failed policy of entrism in the SLP.
Part of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI), which is the group led by the American SWP which split from the Fourth International in 1953.
Party', this implies that they are the one true communist party, that will lead the working class to revolutionary victory.
www.geocities.com /mgekelly/lenin.html   (2863 words)

  
 PCS Independent Union Forum
She later went on to the Branch Committee and began to learn about the Union from the bottom up, and despite her commitments (single parent 3 children) gave all the indications that she was becoming a good rep. Sadly for all of us, and especially her children, she died suddenly a few years ago.
The party said it had asked the commission for more time and it was confident of meeting a new deadline.
Parties spending less than £250,000 were required to have account details in by 31 March, while parties spending more than £250,000 had to have them in by 7 July.
www.network54.com /Forum/242394/viewall-page-4   (12026 words)

  
 History Alive -> Election Run-down Suggestions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Liberal Party, Former members of the historic Liberal Party who refounded themselves as the Liberals when they felt that the old party had been lost in the merger with the SDP
Free Scotland Party, in favour of Scottish independence outside the European Union
Note that not all of these parties are standing for Westminster Elections and even fewer actually have seats, I will however be willing to provide information on any that are requested or that are generally considered to be major parties.
s3.invisionfree.com /History_Alive/index.php?showtopic=272   (846 words)

  
 The Cellar - Bush, Communism, and the County Dem headquarters
It is generally agreed by historians that if famines, prison and labour camp mortality, and state terrorism (deportations and political purges) are taken into account, Stalin and his colleagues were directly or indirectly responsible for the deaths of millions.
Britain - Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee) (Leninist), Communist Party of Britain, Communist Party of Scotland, New Communist Party of Britain
Nepal - Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)
cellar.org /printthread.php?t=7300&pp=60   (1847 words)

  
 John Maclean and the CPGB   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Given that he could have no interest in joining a party whose leadership was, according to him, in the pay of and directly controlled by the capitalist state, it was no doubt anticipated that he would attack the proceedings on the same basis as he had done at the BSP conference a few months earlier.
The title Scottish Communist Party was rejected in favour of Communist Labour Party, on the proposal of James MacDougall, and the inaugural conference of the new revolutionary organisation was set for 2 October.
And while the party was committed to the transformation of the unions into instruments of revolution, it saw this as a long-term objective to he achieved through patient and systematic work inside the existing movement.
www.whatnextjournal.co.uk /Pages/Pamph/Maclean.html   (20259 words)

  
 Newspapers -main runs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Central Organ of the Provisional Central Committee of the Communist Party Of Great Britain
Central Organ of the Communist Party of India
Official Organ of the Central committee of the Communist party of Cuba
www.wcml.org.uk /holdings/newspapersa.htm   (3562 words)

  
 Communist Party of Great Britain - for socialism, for communism
Communist Party of Great Britain - for socialism, for communism
After the defeats of the 20th century, we have seen a process of disintegration of proletarian politics.
WASG comrades in Berlin also want to stand separately in the 2006 local elections - refusing a joint candidature with the Linkspartei.PDS, which is part of the Berlin government.
www.cpgb.org.uk   (305 words)

  
 Weekly Rates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Semi-regular stories follow the progress of Bat Boy, the half-bat, half-boy superhero; and P'lod, an extraterrestrial who became involved in Earth politics and had an affair with Hillary Clinton.
It had great impact, resulting in such changes as the reform of the child labor laws, slum clearance and women's suffrage.
Published since 1993, the paper developed out ''The Leninist'', a publication inside the old Communist Party of Great Britain which was banned by the leadership.
www.wwwtln.com /finance/202/weekly-rates.html   (1101 words)

  
 Weekly Worker - paper of the Communist Party of Great Britain
“The Provisional Central Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain condemns the implied and direct threats of violence issued against Workers Unity tendency/Scottish Socialist Party members by the supporters of the Scottish Republican Socialist Movement.
This statement was prompted by a series of crude threats, primarily against comrade Tom Delargy, a Communist Party supporter and member of the WU tendency, that have been posted on the internet discussion list, the UK Left Network (http://www.egroups.com/group/uk_left_network).
There is a school of thought which suggests that the SRSM is actually attempting to provoke the expulsion of its members anyway, in preference to being in the same organisation as the Socialist Workers Party, a group that one SRSMer has referred to as “excrement”.
www.cpgb.org.uk /worker/366/freshair.htm   (1043 words)

  
 Campaign for Democracy in the UK
Scottish Socialist Party – this organisation has open factions within it, known as “platforms”, the leading platform is the International Socialist Movement (formerly known as Scottish Militant Labour)
Socialist Party – formerly known as the Militant Tendency and then Militant Labour, which stands in elections as “Socialist Alternative” due to the fact that a tiny and insignificant party exists, known as the Socialist Party of Great Britain
Socialist Labour Party – its General Secretary is Arthur Scargill, President of the National Union of Mineworkers
www.democracycampaign.org.uk /links.htm   (381 words)

  
 The DIS Discussion Forums - Stoopid Squirrels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Rich:: please feel free to substitute the Conservative Party for Republicans and The Liberal Democratic Party for the Democrats,
A few years ago, my boss had me over to his house for dinner party in his back yard.
He loved to feed birds and was proudly showing me his solution to the squirel problem.
www.disboards.com /showthread.php?t=733559   (1130 words)

  
 Variant | issue 7 | New Labour, the Media, and the British Secret State, Robin Ramsay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
All nationalist and liberation struggles in the British empire in the post-war years were portrayed by IRD as being aspects of a great global conflict with the agents of international communism.
As Lashmar and Oliver show, in 1956 they began running operations in the UK against the British Communist Party; and eventually, absurdly, and unsuccessfully, tried in the early 1970s to portray the Provisional IRA as somehow run by Moscow.
But with the Cold War over, the empire gone, much of the City of London now foreign-owned, Britain now merely a declining region of the European Union, the old discourse of nation and state within which concepts like 'duty' and 'national interest' were meaningful is in disarray.
www.variant.randomstate.org /7texts/Robin_Ramsay.html   (2824 words)

  
 great britain
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