Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist)
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The Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist) (CPB(M-L)) is a British communist political party. The small party was formed in 1968 by Reg Birch as a split from the Communist Party of Great Britain, siding with the Communist Party of China. Originally planned as the "British Marxist Leninist Organisation", the party published the Worker from 1969 until 2000, when it became Workers. In 1976, the Communist Workers' Movement split from the CPB(M-L), later joining its main British rival, the Revolutionary Communist League of Britain.
Typical front cover of the CPB (ML) paper
The Worker from the 1970s
The CPB(M-L) sided with Enver Hoxha in the Sino-Albanian split, and came to support the Soviet Union for a period in the 1980s, before dropping this line over Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms.
More recently, the CPB (M-L) has developed a national line for Britain. The party is strongly opposed to the European Union. Like the New Communist Party of Britain, the CPB(M-L) encouraged its supporters to vote Labour in elections to bring about the removal of the Margaret Thatcher government. After she was ousted, it reverted to its line of 'Don't vote, organise'.
CPB(M-L) has an extremely low public profile, with its members focusing on work in the labour movement.
It should not be confused with the Communist Party of Britain, the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist), nor with the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist).
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- Communist parties in the United Kingdom
- Communist Party of Great Britain breakaway groups
- Political parties established in 1968
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