KKE EXAMPLE NOT FOLLOWED IN UK

REVISIONISTS EXPEL COMMUNISTS TO GRAB CPGB!
Even in the 1970s I sensed something was wrong in the fabric of the Communist Party of Great Britain.  There appeared to be a willingness to 'dumb down' the terminology to make some things more understandable for the (presumably) dim British working class. So, gone was the term 'Dictatorship of the proletariat' as this was deemed to be too 'foreign sounding' for the parochial islanders of Britain.  Neither was there to be further mention of Democratic Centralism - the bedrock of the Communist democratic process.


In the 1980s there was much blathering about 'pluralism' and Gorbachev's Perestroika and Glasnost.  The publication 'Comment' was transformed from a pulp paper magazine into a full colour 'coffee table' glossy named 'Marxism Today' which featured luminaries such as Michael Heseltine and contained articles that argued for the sale of council houses.  I stopped buying the magazine.  


And soon after that there were rumours of some comrades being referred to as 'Tankies'.  What a ridiculously infantile expression!  This was followed by a serious attempt to take control of the People's Press Printing Society, the democratic organisation responsible for the production of the Morning Star, the only English language socialist daily newspaper in the world. Fortunately, the revisionist assault was defeated and control remained firmly in the hands of that democratic co-operative society.


The Party branch of which I was a member consistently met in full its financial obligations to both the District Quota (target sum of money) and to the National Appeal (another financial target) and was pleased to announce this at regular north west regional meetings.  Was the branch praised for its achievements?  Well, no, it was not.  When the time arrived for branches to report progress, this particular branch was sneeringly referred to as 'the best branch in the North West.'  This childish idiocy was incomprehensible to this author.  Was this really how professed revolutionaries conducted themselves?  Who were these creatures who labelled themselves 'EuroCommunists' and what were they doing in the Communist Party of Great Britain? What was the source of these deviants and how had they been allowed to become so influential within the Party? 


Worse was to follow.  The National Executive overturned the democratic election of a new North West District Committee.  The branch to which I belonged deliberately withheld all financial contributions to the Party and demanded reinstatement of those elected to the NW District Committee.  


Matters turned decidedly 'uncomradely' as the months progressed towards the fateful, final, National Congress of the CPGB.  I was elected as a delegate to that congress, defeating a comrade nominated by the trendy liberal EuroCommunists.  During the election process, I was called a 'Stalinist'.  The pathetic idiot who made the remark had clearly intended it to be an insult and was very much surprised when I congratulated them on their perceptiveness. Indeed, I considered it to be a compliment!  However, my Euro opponent in the election was 'slipped in' by means of a discovered spare place and that is when I fully understood the gravity of the situation - this scum was out to conduct a cull of genuine Communist comrades and to erase any vestage of Marxism-Leninism from British politics.  


I resigned from the CPGB and gave support to the Communist Campaign Group set up to defend the fundamental principles of the CPGB.  The dross that purged the Party of its intellectuals and activists abandoned the name 'Communist' and instead chose to call themselves the  Party of the Democratic Left.  They clapped and cheered and then disappeared back into the political void from which they had come.


And socialism was abandoned in the former countries of the Warsaw Pact without need of violent insurrection. (If working people demand to be screwed by the capitalists, then let them be screwed until their pips burst - then what will they do and to what will they turn?  To fascism, perhaps?)


Communist recovery in the UK was not as joyful or successful as that of our Greek comrades but the Party reorganised under the title Communist Party of Britain and adheres to the principles of Marxism-Leninism.  In Britain, various splinter groups exist which also call themselves 'communist' and, generally, their hearts are in the right place - it's just their cognition that seems to be out of kilter; there can be no place for factions in the class struggle for these simply undermine the principle of solidarity as was experienced in the 1980s and play into the hands of the class enemy - could that be their objective? Only time, and the intensifying class struggle, will tell.