Communist Party of Great Britain
Political party
| Communist Party of Great Britain link () Powerbase Spartacus | |
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| Formation | 31st July, 1920 |
| Extinction | 1991 |
| Membership | 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, R. Stewart, Shapurji Saklatvala, Ellen Wilkinson, George Aitken, Dora Montefiore, Sylvia Pankhurst, Ranjeet Brar |
| British communist party. | |
The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was founded on 31 July 1920. Arthur McManus was elected as the CPGB's first chairman and Tom Bell and Harry Pollitt became the party's first full-time workers.
It later emerged that Vladimir Lenin had provided at least £55,000 (over £1 million in today's money) to help fund the CPGB.[1]
Secretary-General of the CPGB is Ranjeet Brar.