The Communist Party of Great Britain is a political group which publishes the Weekly Worker newspaper. The CPGB (PCC) claims to have "an internationalist duty to uphold the principle,'One state,one party'. To the extent that the European Union becomes a state then that necessitates EU-wide trade unions and a Communist Party of the EU". In addition,it is in favour of the unification of the entire working class under a new Communist International. It is not to be confused with the former Communist Party of Great Britain,the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist),or the current Communist Party of Britain.
Lindsey Ann German is a British left-wing political activist. A founding member and convenor of the British anti-war organisation Stop the War Coalition,she was formerly a member of the Socialist Workers Party,sitting on its central committee and being editor of its magazine,Socialist Review.
The Young Fabians is the under age 31 section of the Fabian Society,a socialist society in the United Kingdom that is affiliated with the Labour Party (UK). The Young Fabians operate as a membership-driven think tank that organises policy debates,research projects,publications,conferences,and international delegations. The organisation holds no collective position on policy.
The Campaign For A New Workers' Party was an initiative of the Socialist Party of England and Wales that argued for the establishment of a new mass workers' party,involving trade union activists,socialists,anti-capitalists,anti-war and environmental activists. It was launched at the party's annual Socialism event in November 2005. There were more than 4,000 signatories to the campaign's founding declaration,many of whom were trade unionists. Some left parties claimed that the CNWP was a front for the Socialist Party.
The British left can refer to multiple concepts. It is sometimes used as shorthand for groups aligned with the Labour Party. It can also refer to other individuals,groups and political parties that have sought egalitarian changes in the economic,political,and cultural institutions of the United Kingdom. There are various sub-groups,split between reformist and revolutionary viewpoints. Progressives and social democrats believe that equality can be accommodated into existing capitalist structures,but they differ in their criticism of capitalism and on the extent of reform and the welfare state. Anarchists,communists,and socialists,among others on the far left,on the other hand argue for abolition of the capitalist system.
The Jewish Labour Movement (JLM),known as Poale Zion (Great Britain) from 1903 to 2004,is one of the oldest socialist societies affiliated to the UK Labour Party. It is a member of the progressive coalition of Avodah/Meretz/Arzenu/Ameinu within the World Zionist Organization. Its sister parties are the Israeli Labor Party (Havodah) and Meretz.
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) is a socialist electoral alliance in Britain. It was originally launched for the 2010 general election.
The Labour Party Young Socialists (LPYS) was the youth section of the Labour Party in Britain from 1965 until 1991. In the 1980s,it had around 600 branches,2,000 delegates at its national conferences and published a monthly newspaper,Left,later Socialist Youth. From the early 1970s,it was led by members of Militant.
Young Labour is the youth section of the UK Labour Party. Membership is automatic for Labour Party members aged 14 to 26.
The Communist Party of Britain (CPB) is a communist party in Great Britain which emerged from a dispute between Eurocommunists and Marxist-Leninists in the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1988. It follows Marxist-Leninist theory and supports what it regards as existing socialist states. The party has fraternal relationships with the ruling parties in Cuba,China,Laos,and Vietnam. It is affiliated nationally to the Cuba Solidarity Campaign and the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign. It is a member of the International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties,together with 117 other political parties. After the fall of the Soviet Union,the party was one of two original British signatories to the Pyongyang Declaration.
Socialism in the United Kingdom is thought to stretch back to the 19th century from roots arising in the English Civil War. Notions of socialism in Great Britain have taken many different forms from the utopian philanthropism of Robert Owen through to the reformist electoral project enshrined in the Labour Party that was founded in 1900 and nationalised a fifth of the British economy in the late 1940s.
The Socialist Party is a Trotskyist political party in England and Wales. Founded in 1997,it had formerly been Militant,an entryist group in the Labour Party from 1964 to 1991,which became Militant Labour from 1991 until 1997. It is a member of the Committee for a Workers' International (2019),and the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition.
The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is a far-left political party in the United Kingdom. Founded as the Socialist Review Group by supporters of Tony Cliff in 1950,it became the International Socialists in 1962 and the SWP in 1977. The party considers itself to be Trotskyist. Cliff and his followers criticised the Soviet Union and its satellites,calling them state capitalist rather than socialist countries.
The Workers Revolutionary Party (WRP) is a Trotskyist group in Britain once led by Gerry Healy. In the mid-1980s,it split into several smaller groups,one of which retains possession of the name.
The Anti-Nazi League (ANL) was an organisation set up in 1977 on the initiative of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) with sponsorship from some trade unions and the endorsement of a list of prominent people to oppose the rise of far-right groups in the United Kingdom. It was wound down in 1981. It was relaunched in 1992,but merged into Unite Against Fascism in 2003.
The Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) was an international association of Trotskyist political parties and organisations. Today,two groups claim to be the continuation of the CWI,the refounded Committee for a Workers' International and International Socialist Alternative.
Catherine Jane Smith is a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Lancaster and Fleetwood from 2015 until 2024 when the constituency was abolished,and was elected in the 2024 general election to the new constituency of Lancaster and Wyre. She was a member of the shadow cabinets led by Jeremy Corbyn and Keir Starmer from 2016 to 2021 as Shadow Secretary of State,previously Shadow Minister,for Young People and Democracy.
Far-left politics in the United Kingdom have existed since at least the 1840s,with the formation of various organisations following ideologies such as Marxism,revolutionary socialism,communism,anarchism and syndicalism.
Campaign for Socialism (CfS) is an autonomous political organisation of Scottish Labour Party members and supporters who campaign for left-wing policies and candidates within the party. In 2016,CfS agreed to a joint membership scheme with Momentum,a UK-wide grassroots movement supportive of Jeremy Corbyn and his leadership of the Labour Party.
