Communist Party of Great Britain Plaid Gomiwnyddol Prydain Fawr | |
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| Abbreviation | CPGB |
| General Secretary | Albert Inkpin (first) Nina Temple (last) |
| Founded | 31 July 1920 |
| Dissolved | 23 November 1991 |
| Membership (1945) | 60,000 |
| Political orientation | Marxism-Leninism Revisionism (later) Eurocommunism (later) |
The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was a communist party in the United Kingdom from 1920 to 1991.
History
The Communist Party of Great Britain was founded in 1920 and participated in the 1926 general strike. It organized a mass movement against the British Union of Fascists and sent over a thousand volunteers to fight in the Spanish Civil War.[1] In 1945, it won two seats in the House of Commons.[2]
After the Second World War, the CPGB campaigned against British membership in NATO. It organized miners' strikes in the 1970s and '80s. In 1988, a group of communists who had been expelled by the revisionist party leadership founded the Communist Party of Britain.[1] Former members would also found and join the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist).[3][4] The CPGB was dissolved in 1991.
References
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "The communist party". Communist Party of Britain. Archived from the original on 2022-05-05. Retrieved 2022-06-19.
- ↑ "1945 General election results summary". UK Political Info. Retrieved 2022-03-20.
- ↑ "Jack Shapiro lives forever in our hearts!" (2009-12-01). Proletarian.
- ↑ "Remembering departed comrades" (2008-12-01). Proletarian.