At 16:41 04/11/99 GMT, you wrote:
>Michael Pugliese wrote:
>> Can Chris Burford expand on this magazine and it's project
>> for us Yanks, along with the other fragments of the post-split
>>CPGB into Democratic Left, Morning Star and other fractions and
>>factions and tendencies?
>
>I'm afraid the split occured much earlier as the Morning Star was the
>journal of half of the Communist Party of Britain. There was also the
>New Communist Party (who were always my favourites from the split).
>If I am not mistaken the initial split was over Hungary and the end
>of the CPGB just produced a reduce Democratic Left. But perhaps
>someone else is better informed than me.
>
>JOHN WALKER
I think the New Communist Party split off in support of the Soviet invasion
of Afghanistan in 1979. The New Communist Party has a web site and are sort
of Brezhnev socialists.
The CPB was formed in the course of the battle for the Morning Star in the
1980's. It supports the British Road to Socialism, always a difficult
question because the British Road was influenced by Stalin, strangely enough.
Chris Burford
London
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