Labour is our 'left-wing' party, and even though it boasts anti-imperialist figures such as Jeremy Corbyn and has had a history of affiliation with trade unions, it is ultimately a part of the bourgeois establishment. Lenin pointed this out by recognising the leadership of the Labour Party as bourgeois. This can be seen throughout history to the present day, where Labour governments have opposed communism, engaged in imperialism and delivered concessions such as the NHS only to placate the working class; New Labour just took the party further to the right. The bourgeoisie control Labour as a distraction, so that socialists put all their hopes into electoralism instead of revolution, as can be seen by how Labour MPs themselves sabotaged the election of Jeremy Corbyn twice, and in 2019, Corbyn's platform wasn't even as left-wing as New Labour Miliband's platform.
Anarchism doesn't seem to have any real presence from what I've seen. It was somewhat influential during the 1970s and 1980s punk movement, but ultimately Anarchism is niche and I'm relatively certain if you ask anyone what an anarchist is they'll just respond with 'people who want to break shit'.
Trotskyism is divided into countless sects and groups, but I'll only focus on a couple given my personal experiences with them. Socialist Appeal/International Marxist Tendency is the dominant Trotskyist tendency, and they are present at many of the top universities as Marxist Societies. While they have good takes and relations with Venezuela, they have awful takes on many things outside of that, including queer theory, dialectical materialism and pinning every instance of social conservatism, economic issues and 'oppression' under socialist countries as the fault of Stalinism while engaging in entryism. They also think the Hong Kong protests are a revolutionary movement and praised the fall of Gaddafi in Libya. Their analyses stop there pretty much. Another Trotskyist group is AWL (Alliance for Workers' Liberty) who have takes so notoriously bad it's best that you search them up yourselves, but they're a laughing stock amongst even other Trotskyists.
Trotskyism experienced very brief success in the 1980s before they were purged from Labour. They still remain quite dominant (at least among young people) to this day.
CPB is a self-described Marxist-Leninist party, and the continuation of the CPGB. They also have the YCL (Young Communist League). The CPB is a bit of a mixed bag. Other Marxist-Leninists I've spoken with criticise their fascination with the Labour Party. The CPB follows a programme called the British Road to Socialism, which was allegedly approved by Stalin, and while they claim to be revolutionary and recognise that the Labour Party is not the vessel through which socialism should be carried out, they believe in electing a left-wing government to provide a power base for the revolution. At least that's what I gather; I'm trying to find out more from them but they haven't answered my question yet. They have good news articles debunking Uyghur camp propaganda and they seem to recognise all existing socialist states as socialist, which is a plus.
CPGB-ML is also a self-described Marxist-Leninist party, and they are highly critical of the CPB. They split off from another party led by Arthur Scargirll due to the latter's disgust in that the people who went on to form CPGB-ML supported countries like the DPRK. While they have good takes on existing socialist states for the most part, their analysis of gender and trans issues is absolutely incorrect and they seem to be appealing to the reactionary working class member.
Workers' Party of Britain is a new party chaired by George Galloway. Though not explicitly communist, it is essentially a new front for the CPGB-ML.
Red Fightback is a very small group and I haven't heard much from them in a long time, though they are critical of the CPB vis à vis reformism and they are critical of the CPGB-ML's transphobia. They also criticise another communist group due to the defence of a rape allegation. Red Fightback is composed of dissatisfied people from the last three parties, pretty much.
There is also a Maoist party, but it's line is that every single socialist state that exists/existed is capitalist, and they're absolutely tiny.
Britain:
Labour is our 'left-wing' party, and even though it boasts anti-imperialist figures such as Jeremy Corbyn and has had a history of affiliation with trade unions, it is ultimately a part of the bourgeois establishment. Lenin pointed this out by recognising the leadership of the Labour Party as bourgeois. This can be seen throughout history to the present day, where Labour governments have opposed communism, engaged in imperialism and delivered concessions such as the NHS only to placate the working class; New Labour just took the party further to the right. The bourgeoisie control Labour as a distraction, so that socialists put all their hopes into electoralism instead of revolution, as can be seen by how Labour MPs themselves sabotaged the election of Jeremy Corbyn twice, and in 2019, Corbyn's platform wasn't even as left-wing as New Labour Miliband's platform.
Anarchism doesn't seem to have any real presence from what I've seen. It was somewhat influential during the 1970s and 1980s punk movement, but ultimately Anarchism is niche and I'm relatively certain if you ask anyone what an anarchist is they'll just respond with 'people who want to break shit'.
Trotskyism is divided into countless sects and groups, but I'll only focus on a couple given my personal experiences with them. Socialist Appeal/International Marxist Tendency is the dominant Trotskyist tendency, and they are present at many of the top universities as Marxist Societies. While they have good takes and relations with Venezuela, they have awful takes on many things outside of that, including queer theory, dialectical materialism and pinning every instance of social conservatism, economic issues and 'oppression' under socialist countries as the fault of Stalinism while engaging in entryism. They also think the Hong Kong protests are a revolutionary movement and praised the fall of Gaddafi in Libya. Their analyses stop there pretty much. Another Trotskyist group is AWL (Alliance for Workers' Liberty) who have takes so notoriously bad it's best that you search them up yourselves, but they're a laughing stock amongst even other Trotskyists.
Trotskyism experienced very brief success in the 1980s before they were purged from Labour. They still remain quite dominant (at least among young people) to this day.
CPB is a self-described Marxist-Leninist party, and the continuation of the CPGB. They also have the YCL (Young Communist League). The CPB is a bit of a mixed bag. Other Marxist-Leninists I've spoken with criticise their fascination with the Labour Party. The CPB follows a programme called the British Road to Socialism, which was allegedly approved by Stalin, and while they claim to be revolutionary and recognise that the Labour Party is not the vessel through which socialism should be carried out, they believe in electing a left-wing government to provide a power base for the revolution. At least that's what I gather; I'm trying to find out more from them but they haven't answered my question yet. They have good news articles debunking Uyghur camp propaganda and they seem to recognise all existing socialist states as socialist, which is a plus.
CPGB-ML is also a self-described Marxist-Leninist party, and they are highly critical of the CPB. They split off from another party led by Arthur Scargirll due to the latter's disgust in that the people who went on to form CPGB-ML supported countries like the DPRK. While they have good takes on existing socialist states for the most part, their analysis of gender and trans issues is absolutely incorrect and they seem to be appealing to the reactionary working class member.
Workers' Party of Britain is a new party chaired by George Galloway. Though not explicitly communist, it is essentially a new front for the CPGB-ML.
Red Fightback is a very small group and I haven't heard much from them in a long time, though they are critical of the CPB vis à vis reformism and they are critical of the CPGB-ML's transphobia. They also criticise another communist group due to the defence of a rape allegation. Red Fightback is composed of dissatisfied people from the last three parties, pretty much.
There is also a Maoist party, but it's line is that every single socialist state that exists/existed is capitalist, and they're absolutely tiny.