Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist)

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"Oi, Harpal, how do you think we should go about attracting more people to our cause?"
"I know, let's march around waving a huge great poster of the second biggest mass-murdering bastard of the 20th century!"
"Sounds like a plan!"
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The Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist) (or CPGB-ML for short) is a catchily-named British far-left party, which should not be confused with the Communist Party of Britain, the New Communist Party of Britain, the Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist), the Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee), or the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist).[1] They're all very different parties, we're sure. The CPGB-ML is led by Harpal Brar.

The party has welcomed the 2011 England riots as "working-class people expressing their rage in the only way they presently can"[2] and published comments from an Australian correspondent hailing the crimes as "an inspiring and heroic stance against all the wonderful ‘freedoms’ of capitalism (poverty, racism, despair, etc.), and ... a shining example that the Australian proletariat should emulate."[3]

They're also Stalin apologists.

My enemy's enemy

Chairman Brar supported Muammar al-Gaddafi. Speaking of the civil war in Libya, he stated that "The Libyan opposition are paid agents of imperialism. It’s precisely for that reason that we think the only leader, and the only government that befits the Libyan people, is the government of Colonel Gaddafi... Death to Anglo-American and French imperialism."[4] He has also stated that "What NATO are doing today is what Hitler used to do;"[5] viz., invade countries in order "to bring German civilization to the barbarians." Of course, in reality, Hitler did not have nearly so much regard for the "barbarians," his actual plan being to wipe them out to make Lebensraum for Germans to populate, but who cares about minor details like that?

The Great Leader Brar is also a big fan of North Korea. Speaking at a welcome dinner thrown for him and other party members in Pyongyang by Choe Thae Bok, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Worker's Party of Korea: "We are very much inspired by the example of the DPRK, which shows that a small country, if it has the correct line and is led properly, can defeat the mightiest imperialist power. In the past five decades, you have beaten Japanese imperialism and US imperialism. That is why your enemies hate you and your friends love you."[6]

In late 2012 the party came out in support of Bashar al-Assad.[7]

Despite oppostion to revisionism, the party has a platform of supporting the revisionist Communist parties of China and Vietnam and regards them as Socialist states. The party also supports the government of Vladimir Putin in Russia in accordance with its "anti-imperialist" tendencies. The party's propaganda tends to stay clear of mentioning Communist movements in Russia and China, even in cases of arrests of communist activists.

The party receives funding in donations from businesses owned by Central Committee member Keith Bennett, a business magnate and consultant with investments and factories in China. There is suspicion that the funding from business interests in China is the main reasom behind the parties refusal to criticize the Beijing regime for abuses of workers.


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