Another small group the Labour Party Marxists are a group of members and sympathisers of the Communist Party Of Great Britain. *This is not the official Communist Party but a splinter from the original CPGB that began life as an opposition faction inside the party around a journal called The Leninist.
The leader of the group John Chamberlain (Jack Conrad) himself a former member of a previous breakaway from the CPGB, the New Communist Party and his supporters managed to hijack the formal name of the old party when it collapsed following the fall of Stalinism in the Soviet Union.
Unlike the other entryist groups this organisation is not ideologically "Trotskyist" but nevertheless has entered the Labour Party under the label of the LPM after a long string of failed interventions in other left-wing projects in which they were notorious for not just their special brand of sectarianism but troublesome interventions.
The CPGB publish a newspaper called the Weekly Worker which though not as widely read as it was in previous years is treated by most on the left as a gossip sheet since the group notoriously publish in depth information on the splits and squabbles of other left wing organisations and factions. A process that continues to this day though their targets are the other entryist groups and internal hard left factions including Momentum.
The Labour Party Marxists as a group have been highly unsuccessful in building their grouping and other than dishing out bulletins at Labour Conference have proved ineffectual except for one thing.
The CPGB were instrumental and remain a driving force of the Labour Against the Witch Hunt organisation that has managed to attract the support of many Corbyn/hard left supporters as it's project has been to defend those accused of antisemitism.
LAW and the CPGB have provided platforms for the worst elements the left has to offer allying themselves with the worst the far/hard left has to offer in the likes of Tony Greenstein, Jackie Walker and Chris Williamson all of whom are now thankfully no longer Labour Party members.
The LPM's most prominent spokesman Stan Keeble has been expelled from the Labour Party but remains heavily involved with the group as do many of the others expelled via the LAW organisation. The LPM/CPGB have built a whole political industry around the denial of antisemitism insisting in typical extremist conspiratorial theories that it's all a "Zionist " plot,that the Israeli state is involved an that the "right-wing" (including even leftists like Jon Lansman) are weaponising antisemitism to "smear" the left.
The recent disingenuously written and leaked NEC report showed the continuing denial of racism inside the party. Since this is the subject of on-going legal action due to the releasing of confidential personal information and breaches of the data protection act are involved that particular episode still remains largely to be resolved.
Ironically the CPGB expelled an individual called Ian Donovan who propagates the theory that there is a distinct "international Jewish bourgeoisie" which asserts Jews control banking the media and so in a typical antisemitic fashion. Donovan went and peddled his wares in Socialist Fight and readers may recall the groups guru Gerry Downing defending this absurd position in a car crash of an interview with Andrew Neil.
Downing was not only kicked out of the Labour Party but ended up being expelled from Labour Against the Witch Hunt. Recently fell out with Donovan and now freely admits the position he took was antisemitic. Socialist Fight (a micro sect) split over the issue.
Despite their correct assessment of Donovan's theories which were nothing more than The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (a Tsarist forgery) the LPM/CPGB has weaponised defence of antisemitism under the guise of so-called anti-Zionism to more or less take the same path. This organisation has been at the very centre of the problems Labour have faced along with the quisling Jewish Voice for Labour which contains the likes of Walker in their ranks.
The Labour Party Marxist organises "joint" meetings and events with the Communist Party of Great Britain not that their politics or personnel are indistinguishable from each other. This group are in clear breach of party rules and should be proscribed with its members expelled.
No disagreements there Howie. They seem to be ambivalent as to what extent they look to Trotsky. As you say their origins are NCP Stalinism and Turkish tankey Stalinism but they seem to have broken with that tradition. Their encounter with the clever, ideologically ruthless (and mad) Sparts has I think left deep scars and trauma.
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