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__NOTOC__ The Communist League of Great Britain was an anti-revisionist group in the
United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the European mainland, continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...
. It origins were in the Communist Party of Great Britain, where a faction formed around Bill Bland. Initially
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, it joined the majority of the
Committee to Defeat Revisionism, for Communist Unity Committee to Defeat Revisionism, for Communist Unity was a small United Kingdom, British Marxism-Leninism, Marxist-Leninist group that left the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1963. CDRCU was led by Michael McCreery, the son of General (United K ...
in 1965 to form the
Action Centre for Marxist-Leninist Unity __NOTOC__ The Communist League of Great Britain was an anti-revisionist group in the United Kingdom. It origins were in the Communist Party of Great Britain, where a faction formed around Bill Bland. Initially Maoist, it joined the majority of t ...
, publishing ''Hammer or Anvil''.John Moorhouse, ''A Historical Glossary of British Marxism'' (Pauper's Press, 1987) In 1967, this was renamed the Marxist-Leninist Organisation of Britain. Soon after, the group ceased supporting Mao, instead supporting
Hoxhaism Hoxhaism () is a variant of anti-revisionist Marxism–Leninism that developed in the late 1970s due to a split in the anti-revisionist movement, appearing after the ideological dispute between the Chinese Communist Party and the Party of Labo ...
- although
Hoxha Enver Halil Hoxha ( , ; 16 October 190811 April 1985) was an Albanian communist politician who was the authoritarian ruler of Albania from 1944 until his death in 1985. He was First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania from 1941 unt ...
was aligned with Mao at the time. Following a split the MLOB was renamed the ''Communist League'' in 1975, its ideological position strengthened with the
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. The group remained active into the new millennium, but became less so since Bland's death in 2001, and their website contains no new content since that year. The ''Communist Party Alliance'', a successor group working within the Stalin Society, had their own site which was active until 2009.


See also

*
Revolutionary Communist League of Britain The Revolutionary Communist League of Britain was a Maoist political party in Great Britain, formed in 1977. History The origins of the RCLB lie in the Joint Committee of Communists, founded in 1968 by former Communist Party of Great Britain m ...
* Communist League (UK, 1988) *
Communist League (UK, 1990) The Communist League was a small Trotskyist organisation in Britain. Better known as Movement for a Socialist Future, it split from the Marxist Party in 1990, claiming to hold more closely to the ideas of Gerry Healy, who had died the previous ...


References


Bibliography

*Peter Barberis, John McHugh and Mike Tyldesley, ''Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations''


External links


Official site
Defunct communist parties in the United Kingdom Political parties established in 1965 Anti-revisionist organizations Hoxhaist organizations Communist Party of Great Britain breakaway groups Maoist organisations in the United Kingdom {{UK-party-stub