The Third Period also meant that the CPGB sought to develop revolutionary trade unions in rivalry to the established Trades Union Congress affiliated unions.

The Communist Party of Scotland ( CPS ), also known as Pàrtaidh Co-Mhaoineach na h-Alba, was established in 1991 when the Communist Party of Great Britain ( CPGB ) was disbanded and re-formed as the Democratic Left think-tank.

Former CPGB General Secretary Gordon McLennan was also associated with the party.

The CPGB ( PCC ) also enjoys close links with Communist Students.

CPGB M-L is also a party ' Proletarian ' which was formed in 2008.

The Straight Left faction also produced anonymous bulletins to try to influence CPGB Congresses usually under the heading " Congress Truth ".

Grigorii Zinoviev issued a denial on 27 October 1924, which was finally published in the December 1924 issue of The Communist Review, the monthly theoretical magazine of the CPGB, well after the MacDonald government had fallen.

With the beginning of the Second World War in 1939, the CPGB initially continued to support the struggle on two fronts ( against Chamberlain at home and Nazi fascism abroad ).

However, when in 1941 the Soviet Union was invaded by Germany, the CPGB reversed its stance immediately and came out in support of the war on the grounds that it had now become a war between fascism and the Soviet Union.

The death of Stalin in 1953, and the uprising in East Germany the same year had little direct influence on the CPGB, but they were harbingers of what was to come.

After the founding of the Communist Party of Britain in 1988 ( and the dissolution of the CPGB ), the YCL was re-established in 1991, based on the CPB Youth Section.

This went against the Comintern position, which became CPGB policy on 3 October, that the war was a struggle between rival imperialist powers, and Campbell was removed as editor as a result.

Successive annual general meetings of the People's Press Printing Society have agreed that the policy of the paper is founded on Britain's Road to Socialism, the programme of the Communist Party of Britain ; in its earlier forms before 1985, the programme of the CPGB.

Following the end of the strike, Singer fired 400 workers, including all strike leaders and purported members of the IWGB, among them Arthur McManus, who later went on to become the first chairman of the CPGB between 1920 and 1922.

Members of the CPB perceived this as the CPGB turning its back on socialism.

After the break-up of the CPGB, the group declared their intention to reforge the party on what they declared to be " firm Leninist principles ".

Peter Fryer, correspondent for the CPGB newspaper The Daily Worker, reported accurately on the violent suppression of the uprising, but his dispatches were heavily censored ;

French and like-minded British communists saw the Wilson / Callaghan government of 1974-79 as implementing " class collaborationist " policies and felt this was becoming more obvious to the working class, but believed the CPGB was incapable of presenting a clear revolutionary perspective, and had no capacity to rally workers on a mass scale against the capitalist offensive.

After the collapse of the old CPGB, the group around The Leninist declared their intention to reforge the party on what they declared to be " firm Leninist principles ".

In the 1950 and 60s, after working on the Universities and Left Review, Hall joined E. P. Thompson, Raymond Williams and others to launch the New Left Review in the wake of the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary ( which saw many thousands of members leave the Communist Party of Great Britain ( CPGB ) and look for alternatives to previous orthodoxies ).

After 1941 and the turn of the CPGB to support of the war the WIL recruited a number of militants from the CPGB in large part due to their concentration on industrial work.

It was established in 1991 when the CPGB decided to reform itself into a left-leaning political multi-issue grassroots campaign group / think-tank based on the party's Manifesto for New Times.

His 1938 A People's History of England was adopted quasi-officially as the CPGB national history, and went through later editions on that basis.

They wished the CPGB to return to a more pro-Soviet stance, with high levels of membership commitment, a focus on working-class organisation, as well as a strong emphasis on Marxist-Leninist education in the branches.

Though it won the battle to take the CPGB back into the SADP, most of the platform members left following disputes over the publication of their views in the Weekly Worker.

Though the origins of this faction within the CPGB go back earlier it emerged under this name in 1977.

Many CPGB and Independent Labour Party members went to fight for the Republic and with the Stalinist led International Brigades and the Workers ' Party of Marxist Unification ( POUM ) anti-fascist forces, including George Orwell who wrote about his experiences in Homage to Catalonia.

Accepting Stalinist and Maoist trends within Marxism-Leninism, the CPGB ( ML ) publicly supports socialist and anti-imperialist governments across the world.

The split within the international communist movement that eventually polarised between the positions of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Communist Party of China was not a major contributing factor and the groups that supported the Chinese position had little support within the CPGB.

Following the refusal of their affiliation, the CPGB encouraged its members to join the Labour Party individually and to seek Labour Party endorsement or help for any candidatures.

This was opposed within the CPGB by Harry Pollitt and J. R. Campbell, the editor of the Daily Worker, and both were relieved of their duties in October 1939.

From this time onwards, the most traditionally-minded elements in the CPGB were referred to as ' Tankies ' by their internal opponents, due to their support of the Warsaw Pact forces.

Supporters of The Leninist who had rejoined the CPGB in the early 1980s declared their intention to reforge the Party, and held an emergency conference at which they claimed the name of the party.

The Red Platform won their aim but the CPGB ( PCC ) majority continued to work within Respect.

One of their best-known recruits from the CPGB was Peter Fryer, who had been the Daily Worker's correspondent in Budapest during the suppression of the uprising by Soviet troops, and who edited The Newsletter, a weekly which began publication in May 1958, over a year before the launching of the SLL.

This paper and their publication of a number of Trotsky's then hard-to-find books further helped them recruit from among those disillusioned by the CPGB.

The CPGB eventually changed their position in the 1940s.

The CPGB finally disintegrated in 1991, although their former newspaper, The Morning Star, continues to be published by the Communist Party of Britain.

The group was defined by their adherence to orthodox Soviet Marxism and their strong opposition to Euro-communism within the CPGB.

Because of their refusal, Thompson and Saville were suspended from the CPGB.

With their departure, the CPGB was to lose almost all of its members who could lay claim to middle class standing.

The CPGB ( ML ) publish their own newspaper, Proletarian which comes out six times a year.

Although published by Wintringham and funded by the CPGB, it embraced writers of all shades of socialism, regardless of their party affiliations.

While some members of the group ( most notably Christopher Hill and E. P. Thompson ) left the CPGB after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, the common points of British Marxist historiography continued in their works.