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| membership_year = 2014 | membership = 917〔 | split = Communist Party of Great Britain |position = Far-left | ideology = | international = International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties | headquarters = Ruskin House, Croydon | youth_wing = Young Communist League | flag = 240px | website = | colours = Red and Yellow | seats1_title = House of Commons | seats1 = | seats2_title = House of Lords | seats2 = | seats3_title = European Parliament | seats3 = | seats5_title = Local government | seats5 = }} The Communist Party of Britain is a Marxist-Leninist political party organised in Great Britain and since 2012 has been the sole British representative at the International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties. The party emerged from a dispute between Eurocommunists and Marxist-Leninists in the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1988. The party's stated aim is to achieve a socialist Britain.〔 The party's programme is ''Britain's Road to Socialism''. The party endorses the daily newspaper the ''Morning Star'' and ''Britain's Road to Socialism'' underlies the paper's editorial stance. Former members of the party include Bob Crow (former general secretary of the RMT union), Ken Gill (former general secretary of the MSF union, and member of the TUC General Council), and Kate Hudson (general secretary of CND). ==History== The Communist Party was re-established in April 1988〔 by a disaffected section of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), which had largely embraced Eurocommunism. This section included the editorship of the ''Morning Star'' newspaper; largely supporters of the Communist Campaign Group, formed to oppose the party's new direction. The founders of the new party attacked the leadership of the CPGB for allegedly abandoning 'class politics' and the leading role of the working class in the revolutionary process in Britain. The youth wing of the CPGB, the Young Communist League, had collapsed, and the ''Morning Star'' was losing circulation. The following year, the leaders of CPGB formally declared that they had abandoned the party's programme, ''The British Road to Socialism''. Members of the party perceived this as the party turning its back on socialism. The CPGB dissolved itself in 1991 and reformed as the Democratic Left. Many members of the Straight Left faction who had stayed in the CPGB formed a group called "Communist Liaison" which later opted to join the new Communist Party. Others remained in the Democratic Left or joined the Labour Party. The party still has members who were active in the CPGB (which dissolved itself in 1991), some of whom were active in the Anti-Apartheid Movement and trade union disputes such as the Upper Clyde Work-in or the Miners' Strike of 1984–1985. The new Communist Party was largely the creation of the "Communist Campaign Group" and one of its prominent leaders, Mike Hicks, was elected to the post of general secretary when the party was founded in 1988. In January 1998 Hicks was ousted as general secretary in a 17 - 13 vote moved by John Haylett (who was also editor of the ''Morning Star'') at a meeting of the party's Executive Committee. Hicks' supporters on the Management Committee of the ''Morning Star'' responded by suspending and then sacking Haylett, which led to a prolonged strike at the ''Morning Star'', ending in victory for Haylett and his reinstatement. Some of Hicks' supporters were expelled and others resigned in protest. They formed a discussion group called Marxist Forum. The party traces its roots back to 1920 and claims figures such as Willie Gallacher, Harry Pollitt, Phil Piratin and John Gollan as part of its legacy. The party is part of the Stop the War Coalition; the movement's former chair, Andrew Murray is a Communist Party member. Prior to the formation of the Respect - The Unity Coalition, with the support of the Socialist Workers Party, the party engaged in a major debate about whether to join an electoral alliance with George Galloway and the SWP. Those in favour, including general secretary Rob Griffiths, Andrew Murray and ''Morning Star'' editor John Haylett, were however defeated at a Special Congress in 2004. In 2009 the party was one of the founder organisations of the No2EU electoral alliance alongside the RMT and a number of other left parties. The aim of the alliance is to stand in European Parliament elections on a platform of opposition to the European Union which it considers undemocratic and neo-liberal. In 2013 the party was a founder of the People's Assembly Against Austerity along with a number of other political and campaign groups to create a broad organisation in opposition to Austerity policies of the major political parties of Britain and of the European Union. The People's Charter, that the Communist Party had helped create several years earlier, subsequently was voted to be incorporated into the People's Assembly. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Communist Party of Britain」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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