Guys. I hate to intrude upon private grief. But as you are bringing this âconversationâ to my attention, allow me to say that the problem with the
@CPBritain is not âwhat it looks likeâ.
The problem of the CPB is its love for the Labour party. Its forerunner (CPGB) once âlooked likeâ the working class because it was a large, even mass party of the working class. But its adoption of the BRS (and following Khruhschevism then eurocommunism) led to its collapse.
Todays CPB is a parody of the original CPGB. the fact that it still clings to the BRS makes it no more than a small and ineffective pressure group clinging on to the coat-tails of the social chauvinist social democrats (the CPB follows Labour, led by Kier Starmer, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown - no matter how much it may whine about these leaders following âtory policiesâ as INDIVIDUALS).
Effectively the CPB has been reduced, by its program, to being part of the british imperialist system.
Until CPB ditches Labour, it simply is not a communist party. Its leading clique hold the keys to its finances, and they are tied to the trade unions which in Britain remain tied to labour also. CPB does not pose the question of BREAKING THE LINK BETWEEN ORGANISED LABOUR AND SOCIAL DEMOCRACY. It seeks to reinforce it.
The CPBâs loosely affiliated journal (MS) is also dependant upon funding from the trade union movement that is tied to labour. Hence The MSâ eclectic paupers broth of liberalism and social democracy, and always the position that voting Labour will bring Socialism.
How will labour bring socialism??!
CPBâs program states: Labour AND the CPB MPs together (!) with all âleft wingâ groups and organisations (TUC, SNP, Greens, welsh Nats, Cornish Nats, LGBTQ+ individuals, Trotskite comrades etc. etc. - donât laugh!!) as part of the âbroad democratic frontâ, will put pressure on the government (a âleftâ labour government - they still entertain fantasies about Corbyn for this reason!) and PAY the state functionaries of british imperialism so well it will win their loyalty (!!) and use the british âwestminsterâ parliament itself, and the bourgeois state apparatus in general (courts, army generals, police spies, the soldiers trained to shoot down the revolutionary workers) in order to bring the âleft wing programââŠ.
So. the CPB thinks it will take the British imperialist state (by electing Labour!), and make it an instrument of working class rule (through the Labour party AND the Peopleâs assembley!!)⊠and then maybe, just maybe, if problems arise⊠this will lead to⊠[unstated]⊠and this is the âBritish road to socialism.â
It is the british road to nowhere.
shop.thecommunists.org/produ⊠We are serious in this point. Please read this analysis of the CPBâs program. It has been a disaster for the working class in Britain.
And so the CPB is shot through with a âleftâ social democratic culture and ideology.
You will not find even a shred of Marx in its practice. Let alone Lenin. Unless you depend very heavily on the line âwin the battle of democracyâ from the manifesto, while studiously ignoring the lesson of the Paris Commune that âthe proletariat cannot simply lay hold of the ready made bourgeois state apparatus and wield it for its own endsâ. And ignoring the lessons of the Great Socialist October Revolution. And every other successful revolution of the working masses.
Ignoring all lessons of history will not help the british workers. It is a service only to the bourgeoisie.
Thatâs why CPB is happy to cooperate with trotskyites of StW. Was happy to supervise the expulsion of communists - us - from âstop the warâ for raising the question of supporting Gaddafi and opposing British imperialism when Britain and NATO destroyed that country in 2011. Because the Trots too support Labour.
So. The CPB is a dead end. To join it is to end your useful political life.