New Communist Party of Britain

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Communism

Opiates for the masses

* Trotskyism
* Bolshevism
* Maoism

From each

* Ľuboš Blaha (slovensky)
* Kim Il-sung
* Caleb Maupin

To each

* Hutterites
* Industrial Workers of the World
* Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
* Russian Civil War
* Klassekampen
* Stalinism

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The New Communist Party of Britain (NCP; as distinct from the Communist Party of Britain, not to mention the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist), 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)) is a British political party advocating communism, specifically Stalinism. It runs a newspaper entitled The New Worker.

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Views
* 3 See also
* 4 External links
* 5 References

## History[edit]

It was founded in 1977 by Sid French and others as a result of the decline of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). By the 1970s, the CPGB (founded 1920) was split between an old guard ("tankies") and an emerging Eurocommunist faction within the CPGB. The NCP decided to stand up for Uncle Joe and established Stalinist doctrine against various forms of revisionism.[1]

## Views[edit]

The party's website praises Joseph Stalin, painting him as the heroic victim of "a seemingly endless torrent of lies" from "the unholy alliance of bourgeois politicians, social democrats, Trotskyites and revisionists."[2] The site also casts doubt on the death toll attributed to Stalin's gulags ("Surely some of those foreign observers would have noticed. Millions in the gulag camps? Even Trotsky with his network of informants, put it lower: thousands dead, tens of thousands imprisoned"[3]) and concludes that "The world has much for which to thank Stalin, Man of Unparalleled Success. What a tragedy there has been no one to succeed him."[4]

Stalin is not the only murderous dictator beloved of the party; their fondness for dictators even goes beyond the communist variety, as the party also supported the Ba'athist Bashar al-Assad government in Syria: "Genuine solidarity with the Syria’s [sic] communist and progressive forces goes hand in hand with defence of the Assad government in the face of imperialist threats", declared the site. "While the war of words goes on at UN HQ the struggle for peace in Britain has to be stepped up to prevent British involvement in yet another war against the Arabs."[5]

The New Communist Party of Britain use My enemy's enemy argument almost as much as Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist).

Unlike the CPGB-ML, which is known for its transphobia, the NCPB supports LGBT rights.[6]

## See also[edit]

* Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist)

## External links[edit]

* Official website

## References[edit]

1. ↑ Communist Party of Great Britain, Marxists Internet Archive
2. ↑ JOSEPH STALIN
3. ↑ Stalin's ‘crimes’ that saved humanity
4. ↑ Stalin: world statesman
5. ↑ The Fall of Tripoli
6. ↑ Lesbian, Gay, Bi‑Sexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) rights

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