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Communist Party of Britain Communist Pairty o Breetain (Scots) Pàrtaidh Co-Mhaoineach na Breatainn (Scottish Gaelic) Plaid Gomiwnyddol Prydain (Welsh) Parti Gemynwer Breten (Cornish) | |
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| General Secretary | Robert Griffiths[1][2] |
| Chair | Ruth Styles[1][3] |
| Vice-Chair | Tony Conway Mollie Brown |
| Founded | 1988[4] |
| Split from | Communist Party of Great Britain |
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| Headquarters | Ruskin House, Croydon, London |
| Newspaper | Communist Review Communist Women Unity! |
| Youth wing | Young Communist League |
| Membership (2023) |  1,739[5] |
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| Political position | Far-left[6] |
| National affiliation | Unity for Peace and Socialism [7] Co-ordinating Committee of Communist Parties in Britain No2EU (2009–2014) |
| International affiliation | IMCWP |
| Colours | Red and gold |
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The Communist Party of Britain (CPB) is a communist party in Great Britain which emerged from a dispute between Eurocommunists and Marxist-Leninists in the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1988.[8] It follows Marxist-Leninist theory and supports what it regards as existing socialist states, and has fraternal relationships with the ruling parties in Cuba, China, Laos, and Vietnam. It is affiliated nationally to the Cuba Solidarity Campaign[9] and the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign. It is a member of the International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties, together with 117 other political parties. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the party was one of two original British signatories to the Pyongyang Declaration.
- ^ a b Peoples Printing Press Society (12 January 2015). "Communists slam Western hypocrisy over terror". Morning Star. Archived from the original on 1 August 2015.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
statement of accounts 2018was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Peltier, Elian (10 February 2020). "Even in Death, Marx Can't Escape Surveillance". The New York Times. p. 11.
- ^ "Communist Party of Great Britain – History Section". marxists.org. Marxist Internet Archive. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
A period of intense factional struggle saw the Party's membership drop astronomically over the period from 1984. A phase of mass expulsions of many hundreds of Morning Star supporters saw many of them 're-establish' the Communist Party in 1988, taking the name Communist Party of Britain (CPB).
- ^ https://search.electoralcommission.org.uk/Api/Accounts/Documents/24416
- ^ Barberis, Peter; McHugh, John; Tyldesley, Mike (2000). "Far Left". Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations: Parties, Groups and Movements of the 20th Century. London: A&C Black. p. 145. ISBN 0-8264-5814-9.
- ^ "Advocating the socialist project / Features / Home - Morning Star". Archived from the original on 14 November 2010.
- ^ "1988–97 Re-establishing the Party". Communist Party. 1 February 2012. Archived from the original on 23 September 2017. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
- ^ "Solidarity". Communist Party Scottish Congress 2004. Scotland: Communist Party. 2004. Archived from the original on 1 February 2013. Retrieved 19 March 2013.
The Communist Party remains the only political party affiliated to the Scottish Cuba Solidarity Campaign