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Communist Party of Britain

Socialist Alliance

This category contains 13 sites:

• Anti Poverty Movement - Calls for a state controlled reformation of society and crusade against degeneracy.
• General election 2001 - left results - Constituency results by left wing parties and candidates in the 2001 general election. Includes results for the Socialist Alliance, Scottish Socialist Party, Socialist Alternative, Socialist Labour, Workers Revolutionary Party and independent leftists. Co
• Independent Labour Network - Formed in 1998 by Ken Coates and Hugh Kerr, then MEPs, following their expulsion from the Labour Party. Criticises New Labour and advocates return to socialist principles.
• National Committee for the Marxist-Leninist Party - Stalinist formation, argues for the unity of Marxist-Leninists and the foundation of a single Communist Party in Britain.
• New Communist Party of Britiain - An orthodox, anti-Eurocommunist group that split from the Communist Party of Great Britain in the 1970s. Site includes an online version of the newspaper New Worker.
• Red Action - News and articles from Red Action's eponymous bi-monthly bulletin. The group is Marxist but anti-Leninist. Has withdrawn its support of the Socialist Alliance.
• Revolutionary Communist Group (Britain) - Orients towards youth and emphasises issues such as anti-racism and anti-imperialism. Site includes Larkin Publications.
• Scargill, Arthur (1938- ) - Information about the British union leader and political figure, President of the British National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) since 1982, leader of the Socialist Labour Party.
• Socialist Equality Party - Rival of Workers' Revolutionary Party from which it split in the 1980s. Both claim to be the British section of the International Committee of the Fourth International (itself a result of a split in Trotsky's Fourth International).
• Socialist Labour Party - Union leader Arthur Scargill led this left-wing split from the Labour Party after its abandonment of Clause 4 which had committed Labour to the nationalisation of industry.
• Socialist Party of Great Britain (Reconstituted) - Formed in 1991 after its members were expelled from the Socialist Party of Great Britain. Publishes Socialist Studies. Site includes online literature and meeting information. Criticises the original SPGB for being anarchist oriented and reformist.
• Socialist Party of Great Britain (Socialist Standard) - Founded in 1904 and affiliated with the World Socialist Movement. Site includes information about party activities and ideology. Marxist but rejects the revolutionary left as well as evolutionary socialism in favour of a belief in spontanaity. Publishes t
• Workers' Revolutionary Party - General Secretary is Sheila Torrence. Descended from the tendency led by Gerry Healy who was expelled in the 1980s. Rival of Socialist Equality Party both of which claim to be the British section of the International Committee of the Fourth International