Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee)
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Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee)
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| Leader | Collective leadership (Central Committee) Mark Fischer, (National Organiser) Jack Conrad, (Chairman) |
| Split from | Communist Party of Great Britain |
| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom |
| Newspaper | Weekly Worker |
| Ideology |
Communism, Marxism, Leninism, Anti-Stalinist left |
| Political position | Far-left |
| European affiliation | None |
| International affiliation | None |
| European Parliament group | None |
| Colours | Red, White |
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| http://www.cpgb.org.uk/ | |
The Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee) is a political group which publishes the Weekly Worker newspaper. The party claims to have "an internationalist duty to uphold the principle, 'One state, one party'. To the extent that the European Union becomes a state then that necessitates EU-wide trade unions and a Communist Party of the EU." In addition it is in favour of the unification of the entire working class under a new Communist International.
It is not to be confused with the former Communist Party of Great Britain, the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist), or the current Communist Party of Britain.
The origins of the CPGB (PCC) lie in the New Communist Party of Britain which split from the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) in 1977. Under the influence of a faction of the Communist Party of Turkey, a handful led by NCP youth section leader John Chamberlain (who uses the pseudonym Jack Conrad) attempted to rejoin the then CPGB.
Few actually regained party cards but the grouping began to publish The Leninist, first as a journal, then as a more or less monthly paper. Initially The Leninist appeared to some to be a Stalinist publication in its politics, but over time it mutated into something very different. This may be due to their interaction with various Trotskyist groups including a series of exchanges with the Spartacist League. The faction developed a critique of the Stalinist states as well as the bureaucratism and political liquidationism of the old CPGB.
After the dissolution of the 'official' CPGB in 1991, and its relaunch as the Democratic Left, the group declared their intention to reforge the party on what they declared to be "firm Leninist principles". They organised an "emergency conference", at which they claimed the CPGB name, but not its assets. They also changed the name of their paper, increasing its regularity to weekly.
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