Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist)
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Abbreviation | CPB-ML |
Founder | Reg Birch |
Founded | 1968 |
Split from | Communist Party of Great Britain |
Headquarters | Tottenham, London, England |
Newspaper | Workers |
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The Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist), often abbreviated as CPB-ML, is a British
History
The party was formed in 1968 by
A small number of members split from the party in 1975, forming the Nottingham Communist Group. In 1976, three branches of the CPB-ML split and formed the Communist Workers Movement, initially under the leadership of Ian Williams.[4] This group later joined the Revolutionary Communist League of Britain.
In the 1980s, the CPB-ML came to support the Soviet Union again for a period, before dropping this line over Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms. More recently, the CPB-ML has developed a national line for Britain: "Rebuild Britain"; the party is strongly opposed to the European Union.[5]
The party published The Worker from 1969 until 2000, when it became Workers.
Party members focus on work in the labour movement.
Notable members
Notable early members of the CPB-ML included writer
Positions
EU and Brexit
During the
Following the referendum, on 29 March 2017 the
Immigration
The party is notable for its opposition to unskilled and low-skilled immigration. In a statement from 2005 in their publication Workers, the party stated that it regards the recent mass immigration from Eastern Europe into Britain as a deliberate plan by the capitalist ruling class to use "cheap labour" to "undermine the wages and conditions of British workers."[11] It also stressed concerns in the same article that this recent mass immigration was having the effect of impacting national infrastructure; schools, hospitals and transport; by overloading them, to the detriment of the indigenous working-class.[11]
NATO
The party calls for the UK's withdrawal from NATO.[12]
See also
- Committee to Defeat Revisionism, for Communist Unity — an earlier CPGB Maoist splinter group.
References
- ^ "A short guide to Maoists in Britain". The Leveller. No. 20. November 1978. Retrieved 23 November 2023 – via www.marxists.org.
- ^ ISBN 0-582-90264-9.
- ^ Terry Pattinson (17 June 1994). "Obituary: Reg Birch". The Independent.
- ^ a b "High Tide: Reg's Working Class Party" (PDF). www.marxists.org.
- ^ "Congress 2012". Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist). Retrieved 30 April 2014.
- ^ Foley, Brendan (29 April 2014). "Bill Ash obituary". The Guardian.
- ^ "High Tide: The Consolidation of Maoism by the Late 1970s – Index Page". www.marxists.org.
- ISBN 1848945000
- ^ "Grassroots Out rally". Communist Party of Britain Marxist-Leninist.
- ^ "Article 50: A day to celebrate". Communist Party of Britain Marxist-Leninist.
- ^ a b "Migration and class power". Workers. 18 December 2016.
- ^ "Britain out of NATO!". Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist). 20 March 2022. Archived from the original on 25 March 2022. Retrieved 3 April 2022.