Former parties
43-557: Former parties Former parties The Communist Party of Great Britain is a political group which publishes the Weekly Worker newspaper. The CPGB (PCC) 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
86-677: A Marxist Party was a campaign (founded 4 November 2006) run by the CPGB-PCC and other organisations on the British left for a political party with explicitly Marxist goals as part of a rebuilt workers' international. Its members were Critique (who proposed the campaign initially), CPGB (PCC) and the Democratic Socialist Alliance . The Irish Socialist Democracy group welcomed the CPGB (PCC). Similar socialist campaign groups include Campaign for
129-542: A New Workers' Party and Convention of the Left . The campaign agreed three founding political principles at the founding conference: Its seven-member executive mainly consisted of members of the CPGB (PCC) and the Democratic Socialist Alliance criticised the party for its "hijacking" of the campaign. A group of members became known as the Trotskyist Tendency. The campaign published Marxist Voice . In November 2008, it
172-703: A faction called the Red Platform. The new faction called instead for the CPGB (PCC) to rejoin a Socialist Alliance reform current called the Socialist Alliance Democracy Platform . The Red Platform won their aim but the CPGB (PCC) majority continued to work within Respect. Members of the Red Platform subsequently left to create the Red Party in August 2004 over a disagreement about their views being published in
215-699: A founder of the Israeli socialist organisation Matzpen , Moshé Machover . Recurring themes, amongst others, are international politics, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Labour Party. The party has been involved in a rethinking of the class nature of the former Soviet Union . Despite its origins in the New Communist Party of Britain , The Leninist advanced sharp criticisms of the Soviet Union and
258-554: 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
301-533: A region's group of countries') parliament(s), and, in a broader scope, to foster the bilateral relations between said countries. Parliamentary friendship groups play an important role in New Zealand's engagement in inter-parliamentary relations, with group members often called upon to participate and host meetings for visiting delegations from the other part, as well as often being invited by the other country's parliament to visit it. Friendship Groups do not speak for
344-480: 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 . Social democracy Socialism Communism Northern Ireland Scotland Wales Other The origins of
387-434: Is similar to a parliamentary group. A technical group is similar to a parliamentary group but with members of differing ideologies. In contrast, a political faction is a subgroup within a political party and a coalition forms only after elections. Parliamentary groups may elect a parliamentary leader ; such leaders are often important political players. Parliamentary groups in some cases use party discipline to control
430-507: Is to support the leadership by enforcing party discipline . In Armenia , political parties often form parliamentary groups before running in elections. Prior to the 2021 Armenian parliamentary elections , four different parliamentary groups were formed. A parliamentary group must pass the 7% electoral threshold in order to gain representation in the National Assembly . Higher electoral thresholds for parliamentary groups discourages
473-407: Is typically led by a parliamentary group leader or chairperson , though some parliamentary groups have two or more co-leaders . If the parliamentary group is represented in the legislature, the leader is almost always chosen from among the sitting members; if the leader does not yet have a seat in the legislature, a sitting member of the group may be expected to resign to make way for him or her. If
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#1733085426537516-520: The Eastern Bloc countries while strongly opposing movements it considered to be in support of capitalism . Today, leading member Jack Conrad calls these societies forms of "bureaucratic socialism" in a view strongly influenced by Hillel Ticktin and the Critique journal while Mike Macnair argues that the Soviet Union was a peasant based society frozen in transition from feudalism to capitalism. However,
559-709: The Labour Party in the June 2009 European Parliament elections and criticised the No to EU – Yes to Democracy coalition as " left-wing nationalist ". Non-members such as former Soviet dissident Boris Kagarlitsky , Matzpen founder Moshé Machover and Professor Hillel Ticktin , editor of Critique and chairman of the Centre for the Study of Socialist Theory and Movements , University of Glasgow , have spoken at CPGB (PCC) events. The Campaign for
602-496: The Netherlands ( fractie ); Poland ( klub ), Switzerland ( fraction / Fraktion / frazione ); Romania ( grup parlamentar ); and Russia ( фракция/fraktsiya ), Spain ('grupo parlamentario'), and Ukraine ( фракція/fraktsiya ). Generally, parliamentary groups have some independence from the wider party organisations. It is often thought improper for elected MPs to take instructions solely from non-elected party officials or from
645-486: The Parliamentary Friendship Groups , also called Inter-Parliamentary Friendship Groups , Friendship Parliamentary Groups , or Parliamentary Group of Friendship [and Cooperation] . "Parliamentary Friendship" groups are groups of congresspeople/members of parliament who voluntarily organise themselves to promote parliamentary relations between their own Parliament and another country's (or even
688-625: The Solidarity group led to a reassessment of the groups political orientation and the departure of one member to the AWL. The surviving Red Star group considers itself as a part of the libertarian left and has comrades who are active in Class War , the Anarchist Federation and Surrey Anarchist Group whilst maintaining a libertarian Marxist persona and links with parts of the traditional left through
731-504: The United Kingdom Parliament there exist associations of MPs called "all-party parliamentary groups", which bring together members of different parliamentary groups who wish to involve themselves with a particular subject. This term is in a sense the opposite of the term 'parliamentary group', which designates a group that includes only members of the same party or electoral fusion. One special kind of parliamentary groups are
774-482: The CPGB (PCC) dissolved their Platform and left LU. In 2015, the CPGB (PCC) supported Jeremy Corbyn in his successful campaign to be elected leader of the Labour Party. The CPGB (PCC) has been a supporter of Labour Party Marxists (LPM), which promotes many of the ideas of the Weekly Worker to a Labour Party audience through its website and occasional print bulletins. Stan Keable, secretary of Labour Party Marxists,
817-514: The CPGB (PCC) does not formally endorse any particular theoretical analysis of the Soviet Union. During the Kosovo War of the late 1990s, the party supported the ethnic-Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and supports the complete secession of Kosovo from Serbia . The party refers to Kosovo as Kosova, the Albanian and Ottoman Turkish name for Kosovo. The party formerly listed the abolition of
860-605: The CPGB (PCC) launched the Communist Platform in response to the Socialist Platform "[obscuring] the differences between Marxism and a left reading of clause four -type politics". They launched the Communist Platform as a permanent tendency in Left Unity on 8 February 2014. On 29 March 2014, CPGB member Yassamine Mather was elected to Left Unity's National Council at the party's first policy conference. In February 2016,
903-433: The CPGB (PCC) lie in the New Communist Party of Britain (NCP) 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
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#1733085426537946-825: The Dutch Communist Platform , which shares a similar political point of view. Members of the Communist Platform have visited the CPGB's Communist University in the past. Political group A parliamentary group , parliamentary caucus or political group is a group consisting of members of different political parties or independent politicians with similar ideologies. Some parliamentary systems allow smaller political parties, who are not numerous enough to form parliamentary groups in their own names, to join with other parties or independent politicians in order to benefit from rights or privileges that are only accorded to formally recognized groups. An electoral alliance , where political parties associate only for elections,
989-546: The Government of their own country, or even for the whole of the Parliament/Congress to which they belong, as they are usually self-regulating and self-fulfilling. Parliamentary Friendship Groups are active in the national congresses/parliaments of countries such as Armenia, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Israel, Laos, New Zealand, Pakistan, Peru, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, South Korea, Switzerland, and
1032-535: The ISG collapsed and Open Polemic briefly enrolled a few of its supporters in the CPGB (PCC), only for them to quit in a row over money. During the 1992 general election campaign, Ken Livingstone claimed that the members of the CPGB (PCC) were " MI5 agents". In 1999, the group stood candidates for two UK constituencies in the European elections . Prevented from using the CPGB name it stood as ' Weekly Worker '. The group
1075-550: The Red Party was a continuation of the Red Platform of the CPGB formed in April 2004 in opposition to the CPGB's electoral support for Respect Party , with the aim to reverse the CPGB's withdrawal from the Socialist Alliance Democracy Platform . It also argued for greater democracy and humanism in the party's internal structure. Though it won the battle to take the CPGB back into the SADP, most of
1118-715: The United States, among many others. Red Party (UK) Red Star was a revolutionary socialist organisation in Britain formed by former members of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee) , the Alliance for Workers' Liberty and the Peace Party . Founded in July 2004 as the Red Party, it produced five issues of its paper called the Red Star . Politically,
1161-474: The age of consent among its immediate demands, with alternative legislation to protect children from sexual abuse. In 2021 it amended this demand: "Young people are entitled to develop their sexual lives free from parental, police or religious control. We favour legislation which protects children and young people from sexual exploitation by those who are substantially older than them, especially by those in authority over them." The CPGB (PCC) has informal ties with
1204-536: The campaign's initial appeal of making " Keynesian platitudes" and called for a new formation on the left to have an explicitly Marxist programme. The CPGB (PCC) described the "politically decrepit" Socialist Resistance as "the one 'insider' group" in the campaign and accused the group of attempting "to relive old Labour-style Keynesian welfarism". In the run up to the Left Unity (LU) founding conference in November 2013,
1247-565: The early 1990s the group was working closely with the tiny Trotskyist Revolutionary Democratic Group and the discussion magazine Open Polemic . It also sought to deepen its links with a group of recent ex-members of other Trotskyist groups such as the Socialist Workers Party who called themselves the International Socialist Group. The CPGB (PCC) described this process as "Communist rapprochement". The attempt failed as
1290-544: The formation of parliamentary groups like Centre-right coalition and Centre-left coalition . In the Swiss Federal Assembly , at least five members are required to form a parliamentary group. The most important task is to delegate members to the commissions. The parliamentary groups are decisive in Swiss Federal Assembly and not the political parties, which are not mentioned in the parliamentary law. In
1333-532: The formation of parliamentary groups running in elections. The parliamentary groups of the European Parliament must consist of no less than 25 MEPs from seven different EU member states . No party discipline is required. Parliamentary groups gain financial support and can join committees. Hungarian mixed-member majoritarian representation rewards the formation of parliamentary groups, like United for Hungary . Italian parallel voting system rewards
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1376-402: The left focuses primarily on arguing these programmatic issues internally, rather than taking basic socialist arguments to the working class as a whole. It placed an emphasis on plain language arguments for socialism. Leninism became the rupture point within the group in the early summer of 2005. The discovery by group members of the writings of Maurice Brinton (pen name of Chris Pallis) and
1419-462: 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. By
1462-648: The paper. The group was active in the Campaign for a Marxist Party (2006–2008) and is critical of the Campaign for a New Workers' Party and the Convention of the Left . The CPGB (PCC) was heavily involved in founding the Hands Off the People of Iran (HOPI) campaign. Mark Fischer, formerly National Organiser of the CPGB (PCC), is HOPI secretary. The CPGB (PCC) also enjoys close links with Communist Students. The CPGB (PCC) endorsed
1505-424: The parliamentary and organisational leadership will be held by the same person or people, whether ex officio or not; other parties maintain a sharp distinction between the two offices. Nevertheless, in almost all cases, the parliamentary leader is the public face of the party, and wields considerable influence within the organisational wing, whether or not they hold any official position there. A parliamentary group
1548-406: The part of those members; this has been strongly rejected by the leadership's internal critics. Every year the CPGB (PCC) organises a weeklong summer school called Communist University. They invite speakers from in- and outside the CPGB (PCC) to discuss a range of topics. Amongst the regular speakers are Scottish computer scientist Paul Cockshott , Iranian scholar and activist Yassamine Mather and
1591-415: The party is not represented in the legislature for the time being, the leader will often be put forward at a general election as the party's candidate for their most winnable seat. In some parties, the leader is elected solely by the members of the parliamentary group; in others, some or all members of the wider party participate in the election. Parliamentary groups often have one or more whips , whose role
1634-491: The platform members left following disputes over the publication of their views in the Weekly Worker . The Red Party regarded the division of the left into separate groups as natural and even a healthy sign that socialists are arguing out complicated questions of programme. It believed the left had "lost its way" through "sectarianism", which it defined as the refusal to unite in a single workers' party unless each group's own programmatic demands are met. It further believed that
1677-449: The small subset of the electorate represented by party members. In any case, the exigencies of government, the need to cooperate with other members of the legislature and the desire to retain the support of the electorate as a whole often preclude strict adherence to the wider party's wishes. The exact relationship between the parliamentary party and the party varies between countries, and also from party to party. For example, in some parties,
1720-737: The votes of their members. Parliamentary groups correspond to " caucuses " in the United States Congress and the Parliament of Canada . A parliamentary group is sometimes called the parliamentary wing of a party, as distinct from its organizational wing . Equivalent terms are used in different countries, including: Argentina ( bloque and interbloque ), Australia (party room); Austria ( Klub ); Belgium ( fractie / fraction / Fraktion ); Brazil and Portugal ("grupo parlamentar" or, informally, "bancadas"); Germany ( Fraktion ); Italy ( gruppo ), Finland (eduskuntaryhmä/ riksdagsgrupp );
1763-467: Was announced that the CPGB (PCC) would move to wind up the campaign at its December AGM. Having done so, it claimed it will establish a new committee to promote "unity of Marxists as Marxists". A minority of members objected to the dissolution of the campaign including in published articles by Dave Spencer, Phil Sharpe and Steve Freeman. In 2013, the CPGB (PCC) intervened in the campaign for a new left party initiated by film director Ken Loach . They accused
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1806-547: Was expelled from the Labour Party in June 2017 for his association with LPM. The CPGB (PCC) has also promoted the work of another Labour Party organisation, Labour against the witch-hunt , in the Weekly Worker . In 2020, the CPGB (PCC) suffered the resignation of a number of members around its work in the Labour Left Alliance. The leadership of the CPGB (PCC) have argued that this was due to a departure from communist principle on
1849-603: Was for a short while embedded in the Socialist Labour Party , but left to join the Socialist Alliance in which they came to work closely with the Alliance for Workers' Liberty and proposed a merger of their papers, rejected by the AWL. The two have since politically drifted apart. In 2004, the group affiliated to the Respect Coalition . A minority disagreed with the tactic of working within Respect and formed
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