Why a Harry Pollitt School?
This October marks the fourth Harry Pollitt School: the Marxist Leninist weekend school organised by the YCL. The school has become a key event in a young communist’s calendar, and a project which all comrades should be proud of, whether attending, organising, or speaking at. Four years on from the event’s founding, at a time […]
Learning from the General Strike
100 years on from the end of the General Strike, we look at 3 key lessons from this great chapter of our movement’s history
When Harry met Stalin
Eben Williams examines the contribution of Joseph Stalin to the CPGB’s programme, and the relationship he had with its General Secretary, Harry Pollitt.
William Gallacher – Reminiscences of Lenin
Willie Gallacher served as a Communist MP for West Fife in Scotland from 1935-1950, and as a member of the Red Clydeside movement, where he played a very important part in the rise of socialism in Britain. Here we republish his writings on his meetings with Lenin, ahead of the formation of the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1920:
