The Worker – Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist) – CPB(ML)

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The Worker

The Worker was the newspaper of the Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist) – CPB(ML). It started out as a monthly until mid-June 1972 when it was published fortnightly. It appeared as a weekly from October 1977.

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No 15, October 19

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1973

No 2, January 25

No 4, February 22

No 6, March 22

No 10, May 1

No 11, (misnumbered No 10) May 17

No 14, July 12

No 15, July 26

No 16, August 9

No 17, September 6

No 20, October 18

No 21, November 1

No 22, November 15

1974

No 3, February 7

No 4, February 21

No 5, March 7

No 6, March 21

No 8, April 18

No 9, May 1

No 13, June 27

No 14, July 25

No 15, August 8

No 16, September 5

No 18, October 3

No 19, October 17

No 20, October 31

No 21, November 14

No 22, November 29

No 23, December 13

No 24, December 23

1975

No 1, January 16

No 2, January 30

No 3, February 13

No 4, February 27

No 5, March 13

No 6, March 27

No 7, April 17

No 8, May 1

No 9, May 15

No 10, May 29

No 11, June 12

No 12, June 26

No 13, July 10

No 14, July 30

No 15, August 7

No 16, September 4

No 17, September 24

No 18, October 1

No 19, October 16

No 20, October 28

No 21, November 11

No 22, November 22

No 23, December 9

1976

No 5, March 8

No 6, March 22

No 8, April 19

No 9, May 3

No 12, June 14

No 13, June 28

No 14, July 12

No 15, August 2

No 17, September 5

No 18, September 20

No 19, October 4

No 20, October 18

No 21, October 28

No 22, November 15

No 23, November 29

No 24, December 20

1977

No 1, January 10th

No 2, January 24th

No 3, February 7th

No 4, February 21st

No 5, March 7th

No 6, March 21st

No 7, April 4th

No 8, April 25th

No 9, May 8th

No 10, May 22nd

No 11, June 6th

No 12, June 20th

No 13, July 4th

No 14, July 18th

No 15, (misnumbered 16) August 8th

No 16, August 29th

No 17, September 12th

No 18, September 26th

No 19, October 10th

No 20, October 22nd

No 21, October 29th

No 22, November 5th

No 23, November 12th

No 24, November 19th

No 25, November 26th

No 26, December 3rd

No 27, December 10th

No 28, December 17th

No 29, December 24th

1978

No 1, January 12th

No 2, January 19th

No 3, January 26th

No 4, February 2nd

No 5, February 9th

No 6, February 16th

No 7, February 23rd

No 8, March 2nd

No 9, March 9th

No 10, March 16th

No 11, March 23rd

No 12, April 6th

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No 15, April 27th

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No 32, September 21st

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No 34, October 5th

No 35, October 12th

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No 37, October 26th

No 38, November 2nd

No 39, November 9th

No 40, November 16th

No 41, November 23rd

No 42, November 30th

No 43, December 7th

No 44, December 14th

No 45, December 21st

1979

No 1, January 4th

No 2, January 11th

No 3, January 18th

No 4, January 25th

No 5, February 1st

No 6, February 8th

No 7, February 15th

No 8, February 22nd

No 9, March 1st

No 10, March 8th

No 11, March 15th

No 12, March 22nd

No 13, March 29th

No 14, April 5th

No 15, April 12th

No 16, April 26th

No 16, Election Supplement

No 17, May 3rd

No 18, May 10th

No 19, May 17th

No 21, May 24th

No 22, May 31st

No 23, June 7th

No 24, June 14th

No 25, June 21st

No 26, June 28th

No 27, July 5th

No 28, July 12th

No 29, July 19th

No 30, July 25th

No 31, August 2nd

No 32, August 9th

No 33, August 23rd

No 34, September 6th

No 35, September 13th

No 36, September 20th

No 37, September 27th

No 38, October 4th

No 39, October 11th

No 40, October 18th

No 41, October 25th

No 42, November 1st

No 43, November 8th

No 44, November 15th

No 45, November 22nd

No 46, November 29th

No 47, December 6th

No 48, December 13th

No 49, December 20th

1980

No 1, January 3rd

No 2, January 10th

No 3, January 17th

No 4, January 24th

No 5, January 31st

No 6, February 7th

No 7, February 14th

No 8, February 21st

No 9, February 28th

No 10, March 6th

No 13, March 12th

No 19, May 15th

No 21, June 5th

1981

No 1, January 8th

No 2, January 15th

No 5, February 5th

No 6, February 12th

No 7, February 19th

No 11, March 19th

No 12, March 26th

No 17, May 7th

No 21, June 4th

No 28, July 23rd

No 43, November 19th

No 48, December 24th

1982

No 1, January 14th

No 2, January 21st

No 27, July 29th

No 40, November 11th

1983

No 13, April 11th

No 22, June 13th

1984

No 47, December 17th

1985

No 44, November 25th

1987

No 7, February 14th

No 8, February 21st

No 20, June 5th

Election Special

No 21, June 4th

No 25, July 23rd

1988

No 42, November 14th

1989

No 14, April 10th

No 27, July 17th

No 28, July 24th

No 29, July 31st

No 30, August 7th

No 31, August 14th/21st

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Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB)

The Communist Party of Great Britain was formed in 1920 when a number of smaller left socialist/communist groups came together at the behest of VI Lenin. In his pamphlet ‘Left Wing Communism – an infantile disorder‘ Lenin sought to encourage small groupings (in various countries of Europe) to put away their (oft times petty) differences aside and unite to take on the capitalism as the common enemy of the working class. Having led the Bolsheviks to state power in Russia Lenin’s words carried a great deal of weight and, in some senses, shamed these small groupings to come together.

However, that very process (especially in Britain) was probably one of the reasons the Party was never ideologically united around the theory of Marxism-Leninism.

Although the Party was successful for much of its first 30 years or so in achieving a foothold amongst the working class in the traditional heavy industries, winning and leading some important disputes that had wide ranging significance, they were never a really revolutionary Party and had little impact outside of the organised trade union movement.

An indication of this was the adoption of the (revisionist) British Road to Socialism (which positioned the Party as only slightly to the ‘left’ of the Labour Party and has nothing at all to say about the revolutionary achievement of state power) as the Party’s programme in April 1952 – at the Party’s 22nd Congress – which pre-dated Khrushchev’s renunciation of Marxism-Leninism in November 1956.

That act of betrayal to the principles of Marxism-Leninism – an opportunist move in an attempt to make itself attractive to a greater proportion of the population – led to the growing marginalisation of the Party and by following the lead of the Soviet Union in the International Polemic in the 1960s saw its attractiveness for those who wanted a revolutionary change of society wane considerably. The result was a fracturing of the movement – strangely similar to what had existed pre-1920.

It’s growing dependence upon the revisionist Soviet Union from the late 1950s onwards meant that when the Soviet Union itself fell apart in 1990 that crutch that had kept the CPGB afloat (following the earlier adoption of the strangely named ‘Eurocommunism’) was taken away and the collapse of the Party was as quick as that of the erstwhile Socialist state.

However, it did produce some good material – especially in the 1930s and 40s – and some of that is reproduced below, as well as documents which also show its internal disintegration and lack of Marxist-Leninist ideology.

Pamphlets and books

Communist Unity Convention, London, July 31st and August 1st 1920, Official report, London, 1920, 72 pages.

Statutes and Rules – as adopted by the Battersea Conference, October 7-9 1922, London, 1922, 12 pages.

Women in the class struggle, CPGB, London, 1925, 7 pages.

The Communist International between the 5th and 6th World Congresses, 1924-28, a report on the position of all sections of the World Communist Party, CPGB, London, 1928, 508 pages.

Report of the XV Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, official report with decisions and discussions, CPGB, London, 1928, 415 pages.

Fascism and social revolution, R Palme Dutt, International Publishers, New York, 1935, 320 pages.

British Communist Party, a short history, Tom Bell, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1937, 201 pages.

Four Lesson Course, for the use of Communist Party Branches and Training Groups, Communist Theory Series, No 1, CPGB, London, 1937, 16 pages.

The Political and Social Doctrine of Communism, R Palme Dutt, Day to Day Pamphlets No 39, Hogarth Press, London, 1938, 44 pages.

Chamberlain helped Hitler, JR Campbell, CPGB, London, 1938, 16 pages.

The Chamberlain-Hitler collusion, Alvin Finkel and Clement Leibovitz, Merlin Press, Rendlesham, 1997, 325 pages. How the UK assisted the Nazis for their opposition to Soviet Communism – a continuation of the political stance since the first days following the 1917 October Revolution.

A textbook of industrial history in wartime, including a record of the Shop Stewards Movement, Wal Hannington, The Marxist Textbook Series, No 5, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1940, 119 pages.

Marxism, nationality and war, a textbook in two parts, Part 1, Nationalism and Imperialism, edited by Diana Torr, The Marxist Textbook Series, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1940, 128 pages.

War on the USSR, University Socialist Club, Cambridge, University Labour Federation, London, 1940, 16 pages.

India today, R Palme Dutt, Left Book Club, Gollanz, London, 1940, 544 pages.

Leninism, a syllabus based on Stalin’s ‘Foundations of Leninism’ together with an introductory lecture presented on March 23 1941, R Palme Dutt, Lawrence and Wishart (for the Marx Memorial Library and Workers School), London, 1941, 40 pages.

An Introduction to Political Economy, R Page Arnot, Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School, Lawrence and Wishart, London, n.d., 1940?, 28 pages.

Soviet Russia, a syllabus for study courses, compiled by Joan Thompson, Russia Today Society, London, 1941, 24 pages.

An Introduction to Political Economy, R Page Arnot, Marx House Syllabus No 3, Lawrence and Wishart (for the Marx Memorial Library and Workers School), London, n.d., 1941?, 28 pages.

Women at war – safeguard your health, CPGB, London, 1942, 8 pages.

Women at war – a soldier writes to his wife, CPGB, London, 1942, 7 pages.

Britain in the World Front, R Palme Dutt, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1942, 226 pages.

The Communist Party, its theory and practice, Outlines for use in classes, No 1, Dialectics as an aid to work, the Party of a new type, Problems of Factory Group Organisation, CPGB, London, 1942, 14 pages.

The Communist Party, its theory and practice, Outlines for use in classes, No 2, International Front and National Front, The Labour Movement, Propaganda: aims and methods, CPGB, London, 1942, 14 pages.

Soviet Leaders – Timoshenko, Ivor Montagu, CPGB, London, 1942, 15 pages.

Soviet Leaders – Voroshilov, Ivor Montagu, CPGB, London, 1942, 16 pages.

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Syllabus for six lectures on the history of the CPSU, with notes on reading, CPGB, London, 1942, 31 pages.

The imperialist struggle for a new redivision of the world, E Varga, Director of the Institute of World Economy and Politics in Moscow, reprinted from Volume 22, No 11 of Labour Monthly, Trinity Trust, London, n.d., 1943?, 11 pages.

Soviet Jews at War, Professor H Levy, Russia Today, April 1943, London, 1943, 31 pages.

Take over the mines, the case for nationalisation, Harry Pollitt, CPGB, London, 1944, 24 pages.

The Colonies, The Way Forward, a memorandum issued by the Executive Committee of the Communist Party, CPGB, London, 1944, 68 pages.

Political Economy and Capitalism, some essays in economic tradition, Maurice Herbert Dobb, George Routledge and Sons, London, 1946, 357 pages.

Looking Ahead, Harry Pollitt, CPGB, London, 1947, 132 pages.

Soviet Foreign Policy 1917-1947, British Soviet Society, London, 1947, 36 pages.

The Soviet Transition from Socialism to Communism, Emile Burns, CPGB, London, 1950, 16 pages.

The British Road to Socialism, Programme adopted by the Executive Committee of the Communist Party by Communist Party of Great Britain, January 1951, Communist Party, London, 1951, 22 pages.

Readers Guide to Marxist Classics, prepared and edited by Maurice Cornforth, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1952, 132 pages.

Economic theory and Socialism, Maurice Dobb, International, New York, 1955, 293 pages.

India, today and tomorrow, R Palme Dutt, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1955, 299 pages.

Peaceful Coexistence, Andrew Rothstein, Penguin, London, 1955, 192 pages.

The crisis in Britain and the British Empire, R Palme Dutt, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1957, 535 pages.

Inner Party Democracy, CPGB, London, 1957, 32 pages.

Published in accordance with the Resolution adopted by the 25th Congress of the Communist Party, April 19-22, 1957.

26th Congress Report, March 27-30 1959, CPGB, London, 1959, 74 pages.

Wages, Maurice Dobb, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1959, 201 pages.

The British State, James Harvey and Katherine Hood, International, New York, 1959, 288 pages.

Say ‘No’ to the Common Market, Ted Ainley, CPGB, London, 1962, 16 pages.

Socialism in Britain, AL Morton, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1963, 80 pages.

The Rise and Fall of the Daily Herald, R Palme Dutt, CPGB, London, 1964, 20 pages.

Introduction to Marxism, Emile Burns, International Publishers, New York, 1966, 123 pages.

Economic growth in underdeveloped countries, Maurice Dobb, International, New York, 1967, 64 pages.

Keep out of the Common Market, CPGB, London, 1967, 16 pages.

British Road to Socialism, 3rd revised edition, CPGB, London, 1968, 72 pages. Although a later, revised, edition this is substantially the same document that was adopted in 1951. It got even worse, if that was at all possible, when it was re-drafted in 1977/8.

Aeschylus and Athens, a study in the social origins of drama, George Thomson, Grosset and Dunlap, New York, 1968, 385 pages.

People Before Profits – Election Manifesto 1970, CPGB, London, 1970, 16 pages.

Papers on capitalism, development and planning, Maurice Dobb International Publishers, New York, 1970, 274 pages.

Studies in the development of capitalism, Maurice Dobb, International Publishers, New York, 1970, 402 pages.

Incomes Policy, The Great Wage Freeze Trick, Bert Ramelson, CPGB, London, 1971, 21 pages.

The future of man, a Socialist Library No. 2, James Klugman, CPGB, London, 1971, 44 pages.

UCS – The Fight for the Right to Work, Alex Murray, Secretary, Scottish Committee of Communist Party, CPGB, London, 1971, 20 pages.

Britain and the Socialist Revolution, a Socialist Library, No. 1, Betty Matthews, CPGB, London, 1972, 24 pages.

Women – the road to equality and Socialism, Rosemary Small, CPGB, London, 1972, 22 pages.

One year into the EEC, Common Market – the way out, CPGB, London, 1974, 12 pages.

Cogito, the Theoretical and Discussion journal of the YCL, Trotsky and the World Revolution, a critique by Monty Johnstone, CPGB, London, 1976, 16 pages.

The British Road to Socialism (Draft) – for discussion, CPGB, London, 1977, 40 pages.

‘Congress instructs the executive committee to initiate and facilitate the widest possible debate within the party and the labour movement with a view to the adoption of a revised edition of The British Road to Socialism at the 35th national congress.’ From a Resolution at the 34th Congress, November 1975.

The British Road to Socialism, Programme of the CPGB, adopted at the 35th Congress, November 1977, CPGB, London, 1978, 68 pages.

Leo McCree, What a man, what a fighter, an account of Leo McCree’s part in the working class struggles in Liverpool, Jim Arnison, Union of Construction, Allies Trades and Technicians (UCATT), London, 1980, 118 pages.

When the People Arose, The Peasants Revolt of 1381, AL Morton, a Communist Party pamphlet, published to mark the 600th anniversary of the great peasant uprising in south-east England, CPGB, London, May 1981, 40 pages.

Police, accountable to whom, Merseyside CPGB, Liverpool, 1983, 24 pages.

Who Cares? – Bulletin of Merseyside Communist Party Health Group, Liverpool, CPGB, Liverpool, Summer 1984, 14 pages.

Liverpool’s State of Health, edited by Katy Gardner and Steve Munby, Merseyside Communist Party, Liverpool, 1985?, 38 pages.

Marxism Today

The Party’s Theoretical and Discussion Journal, published monthly, from 1957 to 1991.

Marxism Today, Volume 14, No. 10, CPGB, London, October 1970, 40 pages.

Marxism Today, Volume 14, No. 11, CPGB, London, November 1970, 36 pages.

Marxism Today, Volume 25, No. 10, CPGB, London, October 1981, 52 pages.

Labour Monthly

A journal published from 1921-1981 and associated with the CPGB. It was edited from its beginning until his death in 1974 by R. Palme Dutt.

Volume 32 No 7, The Trinity Trust, London, July 1950, 48 pages.

Marxist Study Course – Political Economy

01 – Marxist Theory of Value, Martin Lawrence, London, 1932, 52 pages.

02 – Capital and Surplus Value – Part 1, Martin Lawrence, London, 1932?, 52 pages.

03 – Capital and Surplus Value – Part 2, Martin Lawrence, London, 1932?, 46 pages.

04 – Wages and Accumulation of Capital – Part 1, Martin Lawrence, London, 1932?, 48 pages.

05 – Wages and Accumulation of Capital – Part 2, Martin Lawrence, London, 1932?, 48 pages.

06 – The Distribution of Surplus Value – Part 1, Martin Lawrence, London, 1932?, 52 pages.

07 – The Distribution of Surplus Value – Part 2, Martin Lawrence, London, 1933, 56 pages.

08 – Economic Crises – Part 1, Martin Lawrence, London, 1933, 52 pages.

09 – Economic Crises – Part 2, Martin Lawrence, London, 1933?, 64 pages.

10 – Imperialism – Part 1, Martin Lawrence, London, 1933, 64 pages.

10A – Imperialism, Supplementary Illustrative Material, Martin Lawrence, London, 1933, 47 pages.

11 – Imperialism – Part 2, Martin Lawrence, London, 1933?, 52 pages.

Marxist Study Course – Working Class History

01 – The Great French Revolution, International Publishers, New York, 1931, 52 pages.

02 – Industrial Revolution – Chartism, Martin Lawrence, London, 1932, 50 pages.

03 – The Revolution of 1848, International Publishers, New York, 1931?, 49 pages.

04 – First International and Paris Commune, International Publishers, New York, 1931?, 47 pages.

The Modern Quarterly

A journal published from 1945-1953 and associated with the CPGB. It was edited by John Lewis.

Volume 1 No 1, December 1945, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1945, 95 pages.

Volume 2 No 1, Winter 1946-7, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1946, 95 pages.

Volume 2 No 2, Spring 1947, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1947, 92 pages.

Volume 2 No 3, Summer 1947, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1947, 94 pages.

Volume 3 No 1, Winter 1947-8, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1947, 96 pages.

Volume 3 No 3, Summer 1948, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1948, 93 pages.

Volume 3 No 4, Autumn 1948, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1948, 96 pages.

Volume 4 No 3, Summer 1949, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1949, 94 pages.

Volume 4 No 4, Autumn 1949, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1949, 92 pages.

Volume 5 No 1, Winter 1949-50, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1949, 95 pages.

Volume 5 No 1, Winter 1949-50, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1949, 95 pages.

Volume 5 No 2, Spring 1950, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1950, 94 pages.

Volume 5 No 3, Summer 1950, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1950, 95 pages.

Volume 5 No 4, Autumn 1950, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1950, 95 pages.

Volume 6 No 3, Summer 1951, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1951, 91 pages.

Volume 6, 1951, index, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1951, 4 pages.

Volume 7 No 2, Spring 1952, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1952, 58 pages.

Volume 7 No 3, Summer 1952, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1952, 61 pages.

Volume 8 No 1, Winter 1952-3, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1952, 61 pages.

Philosophy

A Text Book of Dialectical Materialism, David Guest, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1939, 110 pages.

Science and Idealism, Maurice Cornforth, International Publishers, New York, 1946, 267 pages.

Dialectical Materialism and Science, Maurice Cornforth, Marxism Today Series No. 7, Lawrence and Wishart, 1949, 63 pages.

Marx and Science, JD Bernal, International Publishers, New York, 1952, 48 pages.

Socialism in the Nuclear Age, John Eaton, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1961, 191 pages.

Historical Materialism, Maurice Cornforth, International Publishers, New York, 2nd edition, 1962, 148 pages. Volume 2 of the 3-volume ‘ Dialectical Materialism; an introduction’.

Marxism and the Linguistic Philosophy, Maurice Cornforth, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1967, 384 pages.

The Open Philosophy and the Open Society, Reply to Dr Karl Popper’s Refutations of Marxism, Maurice Cornforth, International Publishers, New York, 1968, 396 pages.

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The Marxist-Leninist and Anti-Revisionist Movement in Britain

Included on this page is an eclectic collection of documents produced in the two large islands on the western edge of Europe. They cover some of the revolutionary tracts that were produced before Britain had a ‘united’ Communist Party and other documents that were produced after the betrayal of the principles of Marxism-Leninism by Nikita Khrushchev at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in November 1956. Documents of the closest Party (so far in Britain) to be able claim the accolade of being Marxist-Leninist (the Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist) – CPB(ML)) have their own page.

In 1920 VI Lenin published his seminal work on Party building, Left-wing Communism – an infantile disorder. Much of that pamphlet was devoted to the situation in Britain. Unfortunately, British workers and Marxist-Leninists are still to learn the lessons of the Bolshevik success.

John Maclean (24 August 1879 – 30 November 1923)

A Scottish Revolutionary, spoke out against the 1914-1919 war (the ‘First World War’) – unlike most social-democrats in Britain – the activity for which he was imprisoned.

Condemned from the dock, John Maclean, his famous speech against war and capitalism, introduction by Harry McShane, The John Maclean Society, Lothian, 1968, 7 pages.

The Irish Tragedy, Scotland’s Disgrace (1920), John Maclean, introduction by Harry McShane, The John Maclean Society, Lothian, 1970, 22 pages.

Remembering John Maclean, Portrait of a Scottish Revolutionary, Harry McShane, The John Maclean Society, Lothian, 197?, 7 pages.

Committee to Defeat Revisionism for Communist Unity (CDRCU)

The CDRCU was formed in 1963 by Marxist-Leninists who were previously members of the Communist Party of Great Britain who opposed the ‘modern revisionist’ line that the CPGB had been following since Khrushchev’s so-called ‘secret speech’ at the 20th Congress of the CPSU in 1956.

The Way Forward, The need to establish a Communist Party in England, Scotland and Wales, Michael McCreery, CDRCU, London, January 1964, 15 pages.

Notes on the Lower Middle Class and the Semi-Proletariat in Britain, Michael McCreery, CDRCU, London, January 1964, 8 pages.

The National Question in Britain, Origins of the British State, Michael McCreery, reproduced from Vanguard, periodical of the CDRCU, July 1964, Workers Party of Scotland, Glasgow, 1977, 9 pages.

Workers’ Party of Scotland

An Anti-Revisionist Marxist-Leninist party formed in 1966 which operated primarily in Scotland. The magazine, Scottish Vanguard was published until 1972.

Scottish Vanguard, Volume 4, No. 3, organ of the Workers’ Party of Scotland, 1970, 26 pages.

Scottish Vanguard, Volume 4, No. 4, organ of the Workers’ Party of Scotland, February 1971, 24 pages.

Communist Federation of Britain (Marxist-Leninist) – CFB(ML)

The CFB(ML) was a small grouping of Communists who grew out of the Anti-Revisionist movement in Britain following the betrayal of the Communist Party of Great Britain to the principles of Marxism-Leninism. It ceased to exist in, about, 1977. They took control of the theoretical magazine, The Marxist, which was first published in 1966 by British anti-revisionists ‘in search of a Party’.

They also produced a more substantial magazine called The Marxist-Leninist Quarterly. Eleven issues were published between 1972 and 1976. From some of the articles in Nos 10 and 11 you can see how the organisation was destroying itself from the inside.

Marxist-Leninist Quarterly, No 1, Spring 1972, CFB(ML), London, 35 pages.

Marxist-Leninist Quarterly, No 2, Summer 1972, CFB(ML), London, 46 pages.

Marxist-Leninist Quarterly, No 3, Winter 1972-3, CFB(ML), London, 60 pages.

Marxist Leninist Quarterly, No 4, Spring 1973, CFB(ML), London, 44 pages.

Marxist-Leninist Quarterly, No 5, Summer 1973, CFB(ML), London, 38 pages.

Marxist-Leninist Quarterly, No 6, Spring 1974, CFB(ML), London, 53 pages.

Marxist-Leninist Quarterly, No 7, Summer 1974, CFB(ML), London, 51 pages.

Marxist-Leninist Quarterly, Nos 8-9, double issue, Autumn-Winter 1974-5, CFB(ML), London, 79 pages.

Marxist-Leninist Quarterly, No 10, 1975, CFB(ML), London, 48 pages.

Marxist-Leninist Quarterly, No 11, 1976, CFB(ML), London, 79 pages.

Next, being an indication of internal disputes and splits, the National Committee (this time) brings out, for just five issues, a ‘Theoretical Journal’ called Revolution. Here it is obvious how they were degenerating into opportunism as well as falling back on sectarian attacks on other Marxist-Leninists, whilst at the same time calling for unity.

Revolution, No 1, June 1976, National Committee of the CFB(ML), London, 43 pages.

Revolution, No 2, October 1976, National Committee of the CFB(ML), London, 40 pages.

Revolution, No 3, January 1977, National Committee of the CFB(ML), London, 42 pages.

Revolution, No 4, April 1977, National Committee of the CFB(ML), London, 28 pages.

Revolution, No 5, May 1977, National Committee of the CFB(ML), London, 42 pages.

Irish Communist Organisation (ICO)

The ICO was a group of Marxist-Leninists who operated in Ireland and developed from the Committee to Defeat Revisionism for Communist Unity (CDRCU) in the mid-1960s. It produced regular magazines (although only a few here) as well as commentaries on International issues and some articles by JV Stalin and Frederick Engels. In later years they went slightly haywire.

The Communist, No 23, 1969, 22 pages.

The Irish Communist, No 55, July 1970, Belfast, 38 pages.

On Stalin’s ‘Economic Problems’ – Part 1, (Dublin, ICO, 1969), 40 pages. Irish Communist Organisation Pamphlet.

Marxism and Market Socialism – On Stalin’s ‘Economic Problems’ – Part 2, (Dublin, ICO, 1969), 92 pages. Irish Communist Organisation Pamphlet No 16.

Notes and corrections to Marxism and Market Socialism.

Dialectical and Historical Materialism, (Dublin, Irish Communist Organisation, 1970), 44 pages.

On Lenin, (Dublin, ICO, 1970), 28 pages. 4 articles. The organiser and leader of the Russian Communist Party (On the Fiftieth Anniversary of Lenin’s Birth). Sketches (Comrade Lenin’s Convalescence). On the Death of Lenin (Speech delivered at the Second Congress of Soviets of the USSR, 26th January, 1924). On Lenin (Speech delivered at a Memorial Evening of Kremlin Military Students, 28th January, 1924). Irish Communist Organisation.

The Communist Party of China and the 20th Congress of the CPSU, Policy Statement No 3, ICO, Dublin, November 1970, 20 pages.

History of Ireland (to 1014), Frederick Engels, Irish Communist Organisation, Dublin, 1970, 68 pages.

On an Article by Engels, (Dublin, ICO, 1971), 23 pages.

On the Personality Cult, (Dublin, ICO, 1971), 12 pages.

Critique of the Erfurt Programme, Frederick Engels, British and Irish Communist Organisation, Glasgow, 1971, 20 pages.

Marxist-Leninist Organisation of Britain (MLOB)

I must admit I can’t remember anything about this organisation – and have only come across one document of theirs which tell you nothing about its formation.

On the origins of Modern Revisionism, report of the Central Committee of the MLOB, Red Vanguard 2, London, 1972, 40 pages.

Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist)

A party originally called the Communist Party of England (Marxist-Leninist) when it was formed in 1972. In 1979 it changed its name. Can’t remember much else about it.

Marxist-Leninist Journal, Theoretical Journal of the RCPB(ML).

Volume 3 No 2, Workers’ Publishing House, London, July 1990, 99 pages.

Revolutionary Communist Maoists

Conquer the World was the quarterly journal issued by the supporters of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM) in Britain. Issue No 16 onward was issued by the Revolutionary Communist Maoists (RCM) in Britain.

Conquer the World, Issue 17, July 1993, Revolutionary Communist Maoists in Britain, London, 1993, 28 pages.

International Leninist Workers Party

‘The International Leninist Workers Party started in 1979 due to sectarian, reformist, or anti-communist political bankruptcy of the entire ‘left’ of the labour movement’. From the Bulletin, p8.

[Not too sure if it belongs here but can’t think where else to place it.]

Workers Party Bulletin, No 217, December 1983, International Leninist Workers Party, 1983, 12 pages.

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