Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist)
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Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist)
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| Leader | National Leader: Chris Coleman General Secretary: Michael Chant Collective Leadership: (Central Committee) |
| Founded | 1979 |
| Headquarters | John Buckle Centre, 170 Wandsworth Road, London SW8 2LA |
| Newspaper |
Workers Daily [online] Workers Weekly [online] |
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Communism Anti-Revisionism Hoxhaism Marxism-Leninism |
| Political position | Far-left |
| International affiliation | None |
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| http://www.rcpbml.org.uk/ | |
The Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist) (RCPB-ML) is a small British Communist political party. It was named the Communist Party of England (Marxist-Leninist) on initial formation in 1972, until it was reorganised in 1979 after rejecting Maoism and aligning with Albania. The party's thinking is based on the politics of Hardial Bains, who travelled the world founding anti-revisionist communist parties.
Like other Bains-inspired parties, the then CPE(ML) took the Chinese side in the Sino-Soviet split, thus being endorsed by Albania, allied at the time with Maoist China, and opposing both the capitalist West and the Soviet bloc in accordance with the Three Worlds Theory promoted by Beijing. However, during the deterioration in Sino-Albanian relations, it increasingly sided with Hoxha. The CPE(ML) developed party to party relations with the Party of Labour of Albania and renounced China as revisionist.
In 1973 the CPE(ML) put forward 2 candidates in parliamentary by-elections, and in 1974 stood in 6 constituencies in the February general election and 8 seats in the October general election. Their highest recorded vote was 612 (1.2%) in Portsmouth South during the second 1974 general election.
In 1974 the CPE(ML) lost around a tenth of its membership following the expulsion of Aravindan Balakrishnan and an associated group accused of "conspiratorial and splittist activities and.. social fascist slanders against the Party and the proletarian movement"; the group became the Workers' Institute of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought.
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