Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist)
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The Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist) (CPB(M-L)) is a British communist political party. The small party was formed in 1968 by Reg Birch as a split from the Communist Party of Great Britain, siding with the Communist Party of China. Originally planned as the "British Marxist Leninist Organisation", the party published the Worker from 1969 until 2000, when it became Workers. In 1976, the Communist Workers' Movement split from the CPB(M-L), later joining its main British rival, the Revolutionary Communist League of Britain.
The CPB(M-L) sided with Enver Hoxha in the Sino-Albanian split, and came to support the Soviet Union for a period in the 1980s, before dropping this line over Gorbachev's reforms.
More recently, the CPB (M-L) has developed a national line for Britain. The party's strong opposition to the European Union and celebration of specifically British working class history stands out as an exception to leftist internationalism. Like the New Communist Party of Britain, the CPB(M-L) supported Labour in elections to bring about the removal of the Thatcher government, and has continued to call for votes for Labour since.
It should not be confused with the Communist Party of Britain, the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist), nor with the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist).
