Revolutionary Policy Committee

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The Revolutionary Policy Committee (RPC) was a faction within the former British

Chief Rabbi of England, and Dr C.K. Cullen, a medical inspector from Poplar.

The RPC was particularly active in

. In 1933 the RPC successfully persuaded the ILP to adopt the policy of merging with the Communist Party, although this was never followed through. Within the ILP the RPC increasingly came to be seen as a vehicle for Communist entryists and aroused strong feelings of hostility.

In 1934 there was a split in the ILP as some opponents of the RPC, led by

in 1935, the leading members of the RPC decided to wind it up, leave the ILP and join the Communist Party.

References

• Gidon Cohen (2000). "The Independent Labour Party, Disaffiliation, Revolution and Standing Orders". History, 86:282.
• Gidon Cohen (2001). "From Insufferable Petty Bourgeois to Trusted Communist: Jack Gaster, the RPC and the Communist Party". McIlroy et al. (eds) Party People, Communist Lives.
• David Howell (2002). "MacDonald's Party: Labour Identities and Crisis". 1922-31, Oxford.