The Weekly Worker newspaper of the tiny Communist Party of Great Britain was once considered a "publishing sensation" on the far-left as it claimed up to 22,000 individual hits a week on the Internet. Considering the print run is a mere 500 you'd think the Weekly Worker was punching above it's weight as they say.
However what the over-exited comrades of the CPGB (not to be confused with the "official Communist Party of Britain that publishes the Morning Star) failed to realise (or at least they said they did) and tried to deny was that everyone read it to find out what all the gossip was on the left of politics.
If there was an argument or dispute either inside or between the various sects then the place to read all about it was in the Weekly Worker whose network of informants managed to nick all the relevant internal documents for reference or publication. The SWP still rages that despite all their "security" precautions (not to be given to or read by outsiders) their internal documents ended up on-line courtesy of the WW!
Today it's readership has shrunk considerably and the comrades seem to no no longer boast about their "hits" on the papers website (though the annual publication of SWP internal documents on their now separate party website leads to a spike) and the print run remains the same. Their influence or presence has shrunk since the days when the antics of Southend Socialist Alliance branch would lead to a massive essay on their pages.
After a totally wasted effort in the virtually now defunct Lefty Unity Party set up by Ken Loach (where they reconstituted themselves as the "Communist Platform") which nobody was remotely interested and LU itself became a laughing stock until the Corbyn phenomenon made their efforts irrelevant the CPGB hide behind two front organisations.
The first being the Labour Party Marxists who intervene at Labour conference with a daily bulletin and a free broadsheet demanding the expulsion of "Blairite traitors" from their parliamentary seats and the mass conversion of members to the communist programme. A tiny group they are probably ignored by most. It is their second front group that grabs the headlines.
Labour Against the Witch Hunt was formed to fight the expulsions of the likes of the vile Tony Greenstein and Jackie Walker over allegations of anti-Semitism. In fact they have suddenly become obsessed to the extreme with anti-Zionism.
According to LAW/CPGB anti-Semitism has been "weaponised" by the Zionists and Labour Right against Corbyn. They deny there is a problem. In fact Greenstein a total obsessive when it comes to Zionism and Israel is alleged to have stated he would not report a real anti-Semite in the party. That alone shows how dangerous both he as individual and LAW itself is.
Labour Against the Witch Hunt attracts far more attention than it deserves as anti-Semitism has become so prevalent in the party. The Daily Mail reports that Labour Against Anti-Semitism alone has sent 4,000 examples from 1,000 people for investigation.
The CPGB once expelled Ian Donovan for his theories:
The September 14 meeting of Left Unity’s Communist Platform saw a parting of the ways with a member of its steering committee, Ian Donovan. This followed comrade Donovan’s espousal of views that can only be described as anti-Semitic: in his opinion, there is a Jewish “pan-national bourgeoisie”, which has constituted itself as ruling class “vanguard” in key imperialist countries, and it is this that accounts for US support for Israel. Donovan says he intends to write a book laying out this ‘theory’ in detail.
Once this line of thinking had been fully revealed to other members of the steering committee, they urged him to step down from the CP. When he refused, the September 14 members’ meeting was called, which had before it a motion from comrades Jack Conrad and Moshé Machover stating that anti-Semitism is “incompatible with membership of the Communist Platform”
(Weekly Worker 18/9/2014)
Yet despite this and excluding the even smaller Socialist Fight organisation that Donovan subsequently joined from LAW itself the WW quite happily ally themselves with the dregs of the left in the Labour Representation Committee to pass the absurd motion at the LRC AGM today:
(Tendance Coatsey 9/2/19)
The CPGB/Weekly Worker/LPM tendency has allied itself with the worst the Left has to offer. Socialist Fight, the pro-North Korean New Communist Party and Tony Greenstein and should be shunned for the enemy of reason it is.
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