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on Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:40:26 +0100, Einde O'Callaghan wrote:
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>> Isn't this the British CP paper? interesting.
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>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Morning_Star
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> Not "is" but "was". It's almost 2 decades since the CPGB dissolved
> itself. There are actually a number of SWP members who regularly
> write for the Morning Star.
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> Einde O'Callaghan
While the Eurocommunists did dissolve the old CPGB, a group around The
Leninist at that point decided to take the name in a spirit of 'reforging'
the party as something worthy of the name communist. So there is an ongoing
CPGB group, whose organ now is the Weekly Worker (http://www.cpgb.org.uk/).
Today's CPGB contains individuals of differing Marxist outlooks.
Rightist opponents of the Euros hijacked the Morning Star in the 1980s and
removed it from the old party's control. Later, those around the Morning
Star formed the Communist Party of Britain, which still exists as an
exemplar of 'official communism'. The way the 'party' was formed is why
some call it 'the Morning Star's CPB'.
The Morning Star is a vehicle for ostensibly left trade union bureaucrats
and continues in the vein of old-time 'official communism'. It is in hock
to the Chinese CPC bureaucracy big time.
Both the CPGB (as is) and the CPB have contested local and parliamentary
elections in the last couple of decades.
It is not that surprising that SWP members write for the Morning Star,
given the co-operation between members of both 'parties' in the Stop the
War campaign. The British SWP has been morphing into a bastardised version
of an old-fashioned opportunist/official communist organisation for some
time.
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Jim (j...@redunity.org.uk) on 26/01/2012
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