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Latest revision as of 23:31, 30 January 2026

Communist Party of Great Britain

Abbreviation CPGB
General Secretary
Founded 31 July 1920
Dissolved 23 November 1991
Merger of
Succeeded by
Headquarters Marx House, Covent Garden, London
Newspaper
Student wing Communist Students
Youth wing Young Communist League (YCL)
Membership
  • 60,000 (at peak; 1945)[3]
  • 4,742 (at dissolution; 1991)
Political orientation
Political position Far-left
Centre-left (later)
International affiliation Comintern
Channel Islands Affiliates Jersey Communist Party
Communist Party of Guernsey
Other Affiliates West African National Secretariat
National Minority Movement (1924–1929)
Popular Front (UK) (1936–1940)

The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was a communist party located in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1920 through a merger of several smaller Marxist groups.

In 1991, the party's revisionist leadership would liquidate the CPGB and reform it into the Democratic Left.

Ideology

The CPGB would adopt revisionism by 1956 with the rise of Nikita Khrushchev to power in the Soviet Union and de-Stalinization. By the 1970s, the party would take on Eurocommunism.

See also

References

  1. Barberis, Peter/McHugh, John/Tyldesley, Mike. Encyclopedia of British and Irish political organizations : parties, groups and movements of the 20th century. New York City/London: Continuum, 2001. 149
  2. Collette, Christine/Leybourn, Keith. Modern Britain since 1979 a reader. London/New York City: I.B. Tauris, 2003. p. 2
  3. Wheeler, Brian. What happened to the Communist Party of Great Britain's millions?, BBC News, London, published 13 June 2012, retrieved 16 July 2015

Notes

  1. Called The Daily Worker from 1930 to 1966
  2. Theoretical magazine