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15-661: The Communist League of Great Britain was an anti-revisionist group in the United Kingdom . It origins were in the Communist Party of Great Britain , where a faction formed around Bill Bland . Initially Maoist , it joined the majority of the Committee to Defeat Revisionism, for Communist Unity in 1965 to form the Action Centre for Marxist-Leninist Unity , publishing Hammer or Anvil . In 1967, this

30-522: A call to combat domestic revisionism in China. A 'central anti-revisionist drafting group' was formally constituted, led by Kang Sheng , which drafted anti-revisionist polemics, which were later personally reviewed by Mao before publication. The 'Nine Articles' emerged as the centre-piece of anti-Soviet polemics. Anti-revisionism would emerge as a key theme in Chinese foreign and domestic policies, reaching

45-778: A peak during the 1966 Cultural Revolution . China friendship associations turned into anti-revisionist organizations, and Western Europe anti-revisionist splinter groups began to emerge (such as the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of France  [ fr ] , the Grippa group in Belgium  [ fr ] , and the Lenin Centre in Switzerland ). In Beijing, the street where the Soviet embassy

60-588: A position within Marxism–Leninism which emerged in the mid-1950s in opposition to the reforms of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev . When Khrushchev pursued an interpretation that differed from his predecessor, Joseph Stalin , anti-revisionists within the international communist movement remained dedicated to Stalin's ideological legacy and criticized the Soviet Union under Khrushchev and his successors as state capitalist and social imperialist . During

75-581: A successor group working within the Stalin Society , had their own site which was active until 2009. This article about a Communist party in Europe is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a political party in the United Kingdom is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Anti-revisionist Anti-revisionism (Marxism-Leninism) is

90-728: The Sino-Soviet split , the Communist Party of China , led by Mao Zedong ; the Party of Labour of Albania , led by Enver Hoxha ; and some other communist parties and organizations around the world denounced the Khrushchev line as revisionist . Mao Zedong first denounced the Soviet Union as revisionist at a meeting in January 1962. In early 1963, Mao returned to Beijing after a prolonged visit to Wuhan and Hangzhou , and issued

105-886: The Swiss Socialist Federation to form the Swiss Party of Labour . Despite its small size, the Swiss Communist Party played an important role within the Comintern. After the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) was banned by the Nazi government, in 1933, its leadership in Southern Germany went into exile in Switzerland and was sheltered by the Swiss communists. The party also gave financial aid to some KPD officials and shelter to some of

120-610: The 'Nine Articles' had been wrong in focusing on the revisionism of the Soviet Union, rather than the threats of Soviet hegemonism and expansionism . Communist Party of Switzerland The Communist Party of Switzerland was founded in March 1921, in Zürich , by dissidents from the left wing of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland and a communist group formed in the aftermath of World War I . Fritz Platten

135-689: The German-based Comintern press agencies. During the Spanish Civil War , the party contributed to the International Brigades by assisting the mobilization of volunteers from Austria and other countries. At the national level, the Swiss Communist Party had its best electoral performances in the 1920s. In 1928, with 19,7% of the popular vote, it won 25 seats in the Grand Council of Basel-Stadt ,

150-590: The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, the non-aggression pact between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany . The ban had been preceded by the outlawing of communist propaganda and activities in Switzerland in August. On 12 June 1941, all four communist members of the National Council were removed from office. The party continued to operate illegally with about 350 members until 1944, when it merged with

165-615: The adoption of popular front tactics in 1935 led to a slight increase in membership. Nevertheless, anti-communist laws adopted by a number of cantons , as well as party policies such as abandoning anti-fascism (following the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact ) and supporting the Soviet invasion of Finland led to a decline in popularity. In November 1940, the Communist Party was banned by the Swiss government for its support of

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180-554: The late 1920s to early 1930s, the Communist Party's political program underwent Stalinization . A major turning point occurred in 1930, when the expulsion of Walther Bringolf led to the split of nearly the entire Schaffhausen section into the Communist Party Opposition , which merged into the Social Democrats five years later. The number of party members and voters decreased progressively, though

195-493: Was a central leader in the new party. The party drew most of its support from urban areas in German-speaking Switzerland , most notably the cities of Basel , Schaffhausen and Zürich. It counted six thousand members upon its foundation, of which 15% were women. Through subsidiary organizations, the party gathered support from various groups, such as the unemployed, women and intellectuals. From

210-451: Was located was symbolically renamed as 'Anti-Revisionism Street'. In the wake of the 1964 split in the Communist Party of India , the Communist Party of India (Marxist) would reject Soviet positions as revisionist, but the party did not fully adopt a pro-Chinese line. During Deng Xiaoping 's reign in the late 1970s, anti-revisionist themes began to be downplayed in official Chinese discourse. The Chinese Academy of Sciences stated that

225-779: Was renamed the Marxist–Leninist Organisation of Britain . Soon after, the group ceased supporting Mao , instead supporting Hoxhaism - although Enver Hoxha was aligned with Mao at the time. Following a split the MLOB was renamed the Communist League in 1975, its ideological position strengthened with the Sino-Albanian split . The group remained active into the new millennium, but became less so since Bland's death in 2001, and their website contains no new content since that year. The Communist Party Alliance ,

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