__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

Maoist Maoism, officially called Mao Zedong Thought by the Chinese Communist Party, is a variety of Marxism–Leninism that Mao Zedong developed to realise a socialist revolution in the agricultural, pre-industrial society of the Republic of Ch ...

, 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

Sino-Albanian Split The Sino-Albanian split was the gradual worsening of relations between the People's Socialist Republic of Albania and the People's Republic of China in the period 1972–1978. Both countries had supported each other in the Soviet–Albanian and S ...

. 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.

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Bibliography

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

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