The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was the largest communist organisation in Britain and was founded in 1920 through a merger of several smaller Marxist groups. Many miners joined the CPGB in the 1926 general strike. In 1930, the CPGB founded the Daily Worker (renamed the Morning Star in 1966). In 1936, members of the party were present at the Battle of Cable Street, helping organise resistance against the British Union of Fascists. In the Spanish Civil War the CPGB worked with the USSR to create the British Battalion of the International Brigades, which party activist Bill Alexander commanded.
On 31st July, 1920, a group of revolutionary socialists attended a meeting at the Cannon Street Hotel in London. The men and women were members of various political groups including the British Socialist Party (BSP), the Socialist Labour Party (SLP), Prohibition and Reform Party (PRP) and the Workers' Socialist Federation (WSF). It was agreed to form the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). Arthur McManus was elected as the party's first chairman and Tom Bell and Harry Pollitt became the party's first full-time workers.
It later emerged that Lenin had provided at least £55,000 (over £1 million in today's money) to help fund the CPGB. Early members included Willie Paul, Rajani Palme Dutt, Helen Crawfurd, A. J. Cook, Albert Inkpin, J. T. Murphy, Arthur Horner, Rose Cohen, Tom Mann, Ralph Bates, Winifred Bates, Rose Kerrigan, Peter Kerrigan, Bert Overton, Hugh Slater, Ralph Fox, Dave Springhill, William Mellor, Robin Page Arnot, John Ross Campbell, Bob Stewart, Shapurji Saklatvala, Ellen Wilkinson, George Aitken, Dora Montefiore, Sylvia Pankhurst and Robin Page Arnot.
The first resolution passed at the Communist Unity Convention covered the main aims of the new party: "The Communists in Conference assembled declare for the Soviet (or Workers' Councils) system as a means whereby the working class shall achieve power and take control of the forces of production. Declare the dictatorship of the proletariat as a necessary means of combating counter-revolution during the transition period between capitalism and communism, and stand for the adoption of these measures as a step towards the establishment of a system of complete communism wherein the means of production shall be communally owned and controlled. This Conference therefore establishes itself the Communist Party on the foregoing basis and declares its adhesion to the Communist International."
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the party's Eurocommunist leadership disbanded the party, establishing the Democratic Left. The anti-Eurocommunist faction had launched the Communist Party of Britain in 1988.
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Just got back from a date at trivia. Bar is packed and after the first round a group of college kids sits down at our table. I really don't want them intruding on my date but whatever it's a full bar I'll do them a solid.
They're loud and annoying but whatever I was too when I was 21. Then one of them asks the woman I'm dating - who is Chinese but was adopted as a baby and is from Kansas - where she was born and whether she'll need a green card. Immediately I tell him that's not appropriate and to leave us alone. Fucker spends the next hour trying to "apologize" in the most insincere tone I've ever heard - and even says aloud "I'm sorry if I came off a bit racist." I keep telling him to stop speaking to us. Eventually they leave and his girlfriend pays for our food and drinks by way of apology.
In conclusion, it is morally obligatory to scream "shut the fuck up" at white south Africans constantly from the second they open their mouths until the second they leave.
Edit: also I overheard him say "he's so triggered" at one point. Literally every reddit stereotype made flesh. I forgot people like this really exist lmao
Death to America
white south Africans
I have never in my life been less surprised than when I was reading your comment and I reached these three words.
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it's prehistoric patrick from the (season 1?) episode of spongebob squarepants where they travel through time
Oh my god i am so fucking jokerified right now
The CEO of my company just said that we solve problems more effectively when we are in the office together
Ahahahaha go fuck yourself
Death to america
Aaaaand he just fucking appealed to the "hugs you get"
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I described being a millennial of my particular cohort to a friend recently.
You’re at a nice water park, you get in line to ride the big exciting water slide you’ve been waiting so long to get on. You make your way up the tower, before finally reaching the top. You see the kid in line before you go down. It’s your turn, you get to the edge of the slide, the lifeguard just about to push you in.
Then the tower collapses. You fall with it. The tower is a mangle of wood, twisted steel, and parts you’re aware a tower isnt made with. You want to complain about the accident, about how unsafe it was, about how children were on it. They do nothing. They dont even clean the wreckage. They dont even try to get any survivors out. They dont acknowledge that it happened. They dont even build a new tower to connect back to the still existing water slide. They still want you to ride it btw.
From that moment forward, you see the towers to the rides all over the park collapse, it keeps happening, hurting more people.
The fact that there arent more militant millennials in their mid-thirties astounds me
I like to go in the bathroom, splash water on my face, and look hauntingly at the mirror and pretend im a male protagonist under a lot of stress
So many comments on reddit about how dangerous all the old men running the world are since they have nothing left to lose, and the conversation keeps devolving to Xi (69), Putin (69), and...Kim Jong Un (38?)
Joseph Robinette Biden is 79 and Nancy Pelosi is 82. The US has instigated nearly every current world conflict. How are people like this?
still blown away that we got this place for only a 10% markup over 2018 prices. it's a 3 story townhouse 10 minutes from downtown in a cute neighborhood and it's got a jacuzzi tub in the master bathroom (the previous owners apparently used it without caulking it??) yet it sat without any offers for more than a year. feels like a steal given the otherwise uhh astronomical state of the housing market.
closing went through with only a minor hitch - the bank never informed us that we needed to wire the closing cash the day before closing. like everything they told us prior to today was that the money was due at closing. but they said meh whatever and finalized everything and handed over the keys anyway. so it won't get fully funded until tomorrow but that's not our problem any longer, it's just more annoying for the real estate agent and the sellers cause they won't get paid until the bank actually receives the wire transfer tomorrow.
but we did it! NO. MORE. RENT. EVER!!!
my brother told me he thinks of me anytime he sees this meme and i think that's the highest compliment i've been paid