The old "official" Communist Party of Great Britain died a death back in the eighties as the pressures of Eurocommunism and old style Stalinism fell apart. One faction under Sid French had already buggered off in the seventies to found the ultra-Stalinist New Communist Party of which a minute ageing group of pensioners still remains to this day. You might find one selling The New Worker on a Saturday afternoon if you are unlucky.
There still is a groupscule claiming to be the Communist Party of Great Britain which publishes the sectarian rag the Weekly Worker and has currently set up interventions in the Labour Party via two fronts The Labour Party Marxists and Labour Against the Witch Hunt (LAW) the latter attracting considerable attention due to it's defence of anyone accused of anti-Semitism.
However it is the Communist Party of Britain that continues to fly the flag for "official communism" in this country and is trying hard to try and not let us forget that. The CPB sort of (its complicated) publishes The morning Star, a daily newspaper with a circulation of basically fuck all but subsidised and distributed by several Major trade unions.
Recently there was uproar over the free distribution on every delegates seat a copy of the paper sponsored by some union. The comrades got uppity about a report in the mainstream media:
Despite the abuse we received for a free distribution (thanks to support from the CWU and Unite unions north of the border) at Scottish Labour conference — abuse which included a Times columnist offensively comparing it to the Conservatives allowing distribution of a BNP paper — we remain a paper of the movement, with 10 trade unions — representing a majority of Britain’s trade union members — on our management committee. And that movement needs to fight in unity. At the moment we are under siege
The faux offence of Marxist-Leninists being compared to another group that also follows an ideology of mass murder is laughable. Communists from Lenin & Trotsky through Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot killed more people in the name of socialism than the Nazi's managed. T this day I cannot understand why this pernicious ideology is treated with the same disdain and contempt as National Socialism or Fascism.
Hitler had the concentration camps, Stalin had the gulags. In both cases it was the masses of innocents who suffered from these ideological mass murderers.
Today the process continues on a different level in China and Tibet as minorites are sidelined for the benefit of the nation and party.
These are the people who support Corbyn not just from the outside but his main lieutenants Andrew Murray and Seamus Milne are unreconstructed Stalinists which explains Corbyn's lax attitude to Maduro, Castro and even such despotic regimes as Iran.
These people are the enemies of democracy and the Marxists should not be allowed to continue getting off scott free as the young forget history.
Hitler had the concentration camps, Stalin had the gulags. In both cases it was the masses of innocents who suffered from these ideological mass murderers.
Today the process continues on a different level in China and Tibet as minorites are sidelined for the benefit of the nation and party.
These are the people who support Corbyn not just from the outside but his main lieutenants Andrew Murray and Seamus Milne are unreconstructed Stalinists which explains Corbyn's lax attitude to Maduro, Castro and even such despotic regimes as Iran.
These people are the enemies of democracy and the Marxists should not be allowed to continue getting off scott free as the young forget history.
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