The Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) was set up in July 2004 by a group of committed communists who had either been expelled or had resigned from Arthur Scargill's Socialist Labour Party.

The CPGB-ML adheres to Marxism-Leninism as developed by Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin. They consider that after the death of Stalin revisionists in the CPSU leadership undermined socialism to the point where the Soviet Union collapsed. It is especially opposed to British imperialism and supports the Irish Republican movement and the Iraqi resistance together with Cuba, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and ZANU-PF in Zimbabwe. The party places emphasis on the importance of theory and education, as "it is incumbent upon all those who are serious about abolishing imperialism to study and master the science of Marxism Leninism – not in dry abstraction or as an intellectual exercise, but in order that they learn to apply it to the ever-changing situation in which they operate; in order to arm themselves with a guide to practice, without which the working class will never free itself from the chains of capitalist slavery.^*

It publishes a bi-monthly journal called Proletarian.

Although the party is relatively new, many of its members have been active in the communist and/or workers' movement for decades. The party Chair, Harpal Brar, has been editor of the Marxist-Leninist journal Lalkar (formerly the organ of the Indian Workers Association (GB)) since 1979 and has written books on many aspects of imperialism (see his entry for full listing).

Many CPGB-ML members are also active in the Stalin Society.

External link

• http://www.cpgb-ml.org/

Communist parties of the United Kingdom