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  WALES CPB CYMRU
The importance of democracy was further underlined by the revelation, at the 20th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party in 1956, of many crimes and injustices committed during the Stalin era.
The Communist Party recognised that, in popularising the achievements of socialism and in combating anti-Soviet hysteria, it had in some cases tried to defend the indefensible.
Party Rule 15(b) states that members have the duty "to read the Morning Star and to help in every way the circulation of the paper." This is our number one priority, as increased circulation is crucial in the battle of ideas and in organising resistance to attacks on living standards, jobs and democratic rights.
www.welshcommunists.co.uk   (2791 words)

  
 Communist Party of Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Communist Party was founded in Sydney on 30 October 1920 by a group of socialists inspired by reports of the Russian Revolution.
In the later 1920s the party was rebuilt by Jack Kavanagh, an experienced Canadian Communist activist, and Esmonde Higgins, a talented Melbourne journalist who was the nephew of a High Court judge, H.B. Higgins.
But in 1929 the party leadership fell into disfavour with the Comintern, which under orders from Stalin had taken a turn to extreme revolutionary rhetoric (the so-called "Third Period"), and an emissary, the American Communist Harry Wicks, was sent to correct the party's perceived errors.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Communist_Party_of_Australia   (1240 words)

  
 CHNN, No 12, Spring 2002: Features
The industrialisation of South Wales and its growth as a centre of exports in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries meant that the area was subject to large-scale immigration, from the English in particular.
Communist Party members were active protagonists of this internationalism (inside and outside ‘the Fed’), which they manifested through the depth of their commitment to the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39).
The Communist Party says that the Welsh people must be given their full freedom to develop their economic, social and cultural resources, and welcomes the growing determination of the people to have a greater say in running the affairs of our country.
les1.man.ac.uk /chnn/CHNN12CPW.html   (4428 words)

  
 Not updated: WALES CPB CYMRU
The Communist Party's agent was refused election documents and a copy of the electoral register by the local council clerk.
Communists should therefore decide their stance in immediate political clashes (including elections) from the perspective of how the left's influence can be strengthened and consolidated until the point where it can exercise decisive pressure and bring about the overthrow of capitalism.
When there is a communist candidate, this is part of an ongoing programme of work to build the left and strengthen the labour movement in the area, rather than being a purely parliamentary attempt to split the Labour vote.
www.psr.keele.ac.uk /area/uk/e01/man/cpb/election2001.htm   (4333 words)

  
 Not updated: Red Alert
This resolution is a call to all party members to take an active interest in their organisation and ensure that it transforms itself and realises its potential to be a party organised for socialist revolution.
The Communist Party reiterates its demand for the National Minimum wage for all workers irrespective of age to be raised immediately to £5 an hour, in line with half male medium earnings.
The Communist Party recognises these initiatives as a significant step forward in wrestling the anti EMU campaign away from the ‘Little Englander’ conservative tendency and in giving a progressive lead, in Wales, against the monopoly capitalists domination of Europe.
www.psr.keele.ac.uk /area/uk/e01/man/cpb/red.htm   (3752 words)

  
 Ymgyrchu! - The Ballot Box - Minority Parties - Communists
Maerdy in South Wales was called Little Moscow, because of the influence of the Communist Party on the Workers.
He became president of the South Wales Miners' Federation in 1936, the first Communist to get the job, and he was the General Secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers from 1946 to 1959.
The Communist Party was re-established in 1988 and by the National Assembly for Wales election in 1999 they had a number of Communist candidates, including Robert Griffiths, general secretary of the Communist Party, who stood in Pontypridd.
www.llgc.org.uk /ymgyrchu/Pleidleisio/lleiafrifol/Comiwnyddion/index-e.htm   (538 words)

  
 Communist Party of Great Britain - Draft Programme
Communists want a positive solution to the national question in the interests of the working class: that is, the merging of nations.
It is the proletarian internationalist duty of communists in Scotland and Wales to defend the right of the Scots and Welsh to remain with and achieve an even higher degree of unity with the English.
Communists stress however that the struggle against the military-industrial complex cannot be separated from the struggle against the profit system as a whole.
www.cpgb.org.uk /documents/cpgb/prog_demands.html   (4147 words)

  
 Communist Party of Britain - for peace and socialism
The Young Communist League is the youth wing of the Communist Party of Britain and member of the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY).
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Britain's communists are proposing a left wing programme for consideration by the labour and progressive movements.
www.communist-party.org.uk /index.php?file=links   (440 words)

  
 BMA - Wales and politics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In 1400, Owain Glyndwr - proclaimed Prince of Wales in 1404 - summoned a Welsh parliament at Machynlleth.
Two members of the BMA were elected to that Assembly and BMA Cymru Wales appointed a Public Affairs Officer to lobby members of all political parties on issues of concern to the Association.
The Office of the Secretary of State for Wales, or Wales Office, is based in Gwydwr House in Whitehall and remains a central government department staffed by former Welsh Office civil servants.
www.bma.org.uk /ap.nsf/Content/Wales+and+Politics   (727 words)

  
 CHNN, No 12, Spring 2002: Printable version
In settler societies this necessarily meant the indigenization of the local communist party: ie, that the communist party should aim to be demographically representative of the local population.
Since the discipline of a communist party relies heavily on the conviction and commitment of its members, it is evident that their loyalty to the party would not develop to the necessary degree without a systematic strengthening of their grasp of party theory and ideology.
The communist political education system therefore formed one of the most important institutions for the perpetuation of the private and all embracing world of French communism, and the issue of how the PCF trained its leadership is pivotal to the understanding of the party's history and evolution.
les1.man.ac.uk /chnn/CHNN12P.html   (16049 words)

  
 Communist Party of Britain - for peace and socialism
The Communist Party of Britain is calling on the British government to protest against the release of former CIA operative Luis Posadas Carriles who is wanted by the Venezuelan government for terrorist activities.
British communists and their supporters were joined by a large crowd at the traditional annual celebration of the life and work of the founder of scientific socialism.
Britain's communists are proposing a left wing programme for consideration by the labour and progressive movements.
www.communist-party.org.uk   (770 words)

  
 The Communist Party of Australia and the Communist
Stalin's policy meant that Communist Parties everywhere were expected to refuse to work with social democrats, destroy reformist influence, and thereby win the leadership of the working-class in the struggle for revolution, seen as being on the immediate agenda.
His view was that the Party's weakness stemmed from divisions in the Central Executive of the CPA on how to deal with the anti-communist attitude of the ALP leaders, and argued that the ALP move to the right called for sharper criticism from the CPA.
Kavanagh accused the Canadian party of interpreting the united front as working with the trade-union bureaucracy in 1922 and questioned the affiliation of the CPC with the Canadian Labor Party in 1924 for fear it meant submerging the communist party.
members.optushome.com.au /spainter/Curthoys.html   (8029 words)

  
 Guardian | Bert Pearce
These events encapsulate the man and his party: they witnessed enormous changes in the five decades they were together: the Soviet Union, and the party itself, had all gone, but at least some of the causes for which he battled had been realised.
Pearce became secretary of the Communist party in Wales in 1960, a formidable challenge given his powerful predecessors.
Pearce personified a party that was in almost permanent decline, and his perpetual cheerfulness baffled most.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4501662-103684,00.html   (452 words)

  
 Communist Party, Wales.
The Welsh Communist Party in association with the Cardiff Centre for Trade Union Studies is putting on a series of three education classes throughout August.
Yet the ‘One Wales’ government agenda, that was drawn up by the Plaid/ Labour leadership, is to be welcomed by working people, socialists and trade unionists as the most progressive document coming out of any government in Britain over the last few decades.
The Welsh Communist Party is planning to send a formal delegation to Cuba in 2008 to develop local links with the Communist Party of Cuba and exchange cultural and political experiences.
www.welshcommunists.org   (652 words)

  
 Communist Party, Wales.
That is why the Communist Party opposes the abolition of the Welsh Development Agency and the absorption of its functions into the Assembly apparatus, and calls instead for the transformation of the WDA into a National Economic Development Authority for Wales which is fully accountable to the National Assembly.
The labour movement, notably the Wales TUC and the Labour Party, must take the lead in campaigning an Economic Plan for Wales based on the principles of public intervention and democratic control, and for the powers and resources of the National Assembly to be increased in order to implement it.
Although the Communist Party has been at the forefront of the fight for a Parliament for Wales since the launch of the campaign of 1950, it has always called for a parliament of a new type which actively involves people through consultation, petitioning rights, an extended franchise and a representative voting system.
welshcommunists.org /index.php?id=27   (6499 words)

  
 User:Soman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Communist Party of South Wales and the West of England
Communist Party of Spain (8th and 9th Congresses)
Communist Union for the Reconstruction of the Party (marxist-leninist)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/User:Soman   (293 words)

  
 More about Scottish Communists: Part of the Communist Party of Britain
The Party seeks to involve members in working collectively where they live, where they work or in areas of interest.
The party has members active in trade unions, tenants associations and community councils, the pensioners movement, the women’s movement, the peace movement, anti-racist and solidarity organisations and campaigns to defend democracy.
The Party understands that members will to do more or less depending on their other responsibilities at particular points in their lives.
www.scottishcommunists.org.uk /about   (429 words)

  
 David Turner's Home Page
The project is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and directed by Kevin Morgan (Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of Manchester, where the project is based) in collaboration with John McIlroy (Department of Sociology, University of Manchester) and Alan Campbell (School of History, University of Liverpool).
The project studies the membership of the Communist Party of Great Britain, 1920-91, drawing on published and archival records, oral interviews and questionnaires to create an extensive biographical database with related source materials.
This is a website, edited by jutly@aol.com, which is dedicated to Freda Utley, a writer who belonged to the Communist Party of Great Britain and married a Russian.
www.canterbury.u-net.com /page9.html   (928 words)

  
 What is happening in the Communist Party?
The Third (Communist) International was founded in 1919 by Lenin "in opposition to the opportunist Second International of social democracy" — which had been, during the Great War; "the agency of imperialism in the ranks of the working class".
The conduct of the party printery is a damning indictment of the political bureau, the inner group of the Communist Party.
Edna also joined the Australian Labor Party, and rose to prominence in the New South Wales branch to membership of the state executive, and presidency of the Labor Women's central organising committee, largely through her vigorous campaigning for equal pay and equal rights for women.
members.optushome.com.au /spainter/Roper.html   (10945 words)

  
 Communist Party of Britain - for peace and socialism
Communists called on Tony Blair to end the government's subservience to the foreign poicy of Bush and US and British big businessd.
The Communist Party joined the thousands who demonstrated in cities throughout Britain including thirty thousand in London and thousands more in Manchester, Edinburgh, Sheffield, Newcastle and Glasgow.
The Communist Party today issued a new campaign poster in response to Chancellor Gordon Brown's declared intention to replace the Trident missile system full story...
www.communist-party.org.uk /links/Partywebsites/index.shtml   (456 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Wales | Secrets of jailed rebel exposed
With a wartime shortage of writing paper, the sonnets were actually composed on scraps of prison toilet paper, which were smuggled out of Brixton by visitors.
As a member of the fledgling Labour party, and a close ally of Keir Hardy, he viewed the war as a folly of imperialism, which could only lead to the further exploitation of the working class.
He abandoned the Labour Party in disillusionment, and helped to found the Communist Party in Wales in the 1920s.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/wales/3946021.stm   (761 words)

  
 The British Suffragette Movement
His thoughtless words infuriated his audience, and "by those foolish words the militant movement became irrevocably established, and the stage of revolt began."6 The younger suffragettes realized that the polite methods previously used by the older generation were achieving nothing.
The only option left was to act up for the press; the activists realized that "tea parties would not do itQsensational publicity and martyrdom might.
The Press would not be able to resist publishing sensational exploits."7 Most suffragettes turned to these methods, which will be explained later.
welshcommunists.co.uk /suff.htm   (1812 words)

  
 WCML - Links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Owen was born in Newtown, Powys, Wales in 1771.
A twice-yearly publication concerned with all aspects of current historical research into the life and work of communists and communist parties across the world.
Originally published as the Daily Worker, the paper was launched as the organ of the Communist Party of Great Britain.
www.wcml.org.uk /wcml/links.htm   (1251 words)

  
 Wales on the Web:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Collections Wales is an online directory of research collections in Wales, providing a gateway to physical and digital collections with a distinctly Welsh theme from the more traditional sphere of academic, national and public libraries and from other public and private sector agencies throughout Wales.
The Welsh Political Archive was set up by the National Library of Wales (NLW) in 1983, to co-ordinate the collection of documentary evidence of all kinds about politics in Wales.
It collects the records and papers of political organisations, campaigns and pressure groups, in the form of leaflets, pamphlets, ephemera, posters, photographs and tapes of radio and television programmes.
www.walesontheweb.org /cayw/collections/en/699387   (511 words)

  
 Left Links
New Communist Party of Britain - London Districts
Communist Party of the Russian Federation - (KPRF)
Young Communist League of the CPUSA (Newsletter of the YCL of the CPUSA)
www.iraqcp.org /leftinks.htm   (145 words)

  
 Red Alert
Autumn 2003 (Volume 7, Issue 2) - Welsh Communists Build for September Stop the War demo/Wales TUC report/Unity Against New Labour/Unison against the Euro/Welsh Communist election results/News in Brief - for this issue and back issues e-mail your postal address to office@welshcommunists.co.uk
Winter 2003 (Volume 7, Issue 1) - Communist stand in Welsh General Election/A Charter for Women/Rebecca Books moved/Tribute to Welsh Communist Artist/Branch news/Welsh Committee news in brief.
work in trade unions, work in community campaigns, work in solidarity groups, pensioners movement, or internal party work.
www.welshcommunists.co.uk /red.htm   (3832 words)

  
 University of Wales Swansea - History Department   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
I am currently supervising three Ph.D students at the University of Wales Swansea: Rebecca Edwards (working on music and identity in Wales, 1960-2000), Steffan Morgan (working on masculinity and the miners’ strike of 1984-85) and Bob McCloy (working on local government and road passenger transport policy in South Wales, 1930-70).
I am also completing the supervision of one Ph.D student at the University of Glamorgan: Ben Curtis (working on the South Wales miners, 1964-85).
Lyndon White, 'The Communist Party in South Wales, 1945-70', M.Phil., Cardiff University, 1997
www.swan.ac.uk /history/staff/williams/williamsteaching.html   (432 words)

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