Who we are and what we do
Welcome to the Communist Party of Great Britain! We are a revolutionary political organisation that fights to create in Britain a genuine mass Communist Party cohered around a genuine communist programme, and for communist leadership of the workers movement in Britain, Europe and internationally. Our goal is to overthrow capitalism and build a communist society free from the exploitation and oppression that characterise all class societies.
Below is an overview of our main activities and organisations we support.
The Weekly Worker
As a polemical platform, the Weekly Worker features debate on and between the far left. The Weekly Worker is a champion of open polemic, regularly and willingly opening up its pages to those with whom some would strongly disagree – not just in extensive letters columns, but in the main body of the paper. Only through rigorous, no-holds-barred debate can ideas be tested and if necessary amended, qualified or corrected.
Communist University
The school for the thinking left, with lots of time for genuine debate and discussion. This is our annual event in August where the “Weekly Worker goes live” for a week, with speakers from all kinds of backgrounds and lively contributions and disagreements from the audience. Organised by the CPGB and Labour Party Marxists.
Labour Party Marxists
Independent marxists fighting to transform the Labour Party into an instrument for working class advance and international socialism. LPM fights for Labour to become an umbrella organisation for all trade unions, socialist groups and pro-working class partisans – a United Front of a special kind and a party of the whole working class movement led by principled and disciplined Marxists.
Hands off the People of Iran
Hands Off the People of Iran campaigns for the lifting of sanctions and against threats of war. At the same time it practises solidarity with socialist, democratic movements fighting Iran’s theocratic regime. The initiative for HOPI came from a number of Iranian exile organisations in 2005 and is now supported by groups and individuals from all over the world.
Communist Forum
The Online Communist Forum meets every Sunday and discusses politics and current events from a communist point of view in the form of a report from the Provisional Central Committee of the CPGB or a special speaker on a given subject. To listen to them you can visit our SoundCloud page or on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and in any podcast app. Videos of our guest speaker ‘Special OCFs’ can be found on our YouTube channel.
Latest News
Join us for Communist University 2025!
Communist University 2025 July 31 – August 7, central London This year’s event is co-organised by the CPGB, Talking About Socialism and the Prometheus online journal and will therefore look and feel very different to the event of previous years. Check out this article to see some of the changes we are envisaging for this Read more about Join us for Communist University 2025![…]
Getting down to details
The first face-to-face meeting as part of the communist fusion process took place on March 8. The aim was to find out where we agreed and where we disagreed. Mike Macnair reports on Forging Communist Unity This article first appeared in the Weekly Worker March 13 2025 We have met more than once online. But Read more about Getting down to details[…]
The latest from ‘Forging Communist Unity’
Programmatic starting point Without a comprehensive, fully worked-out programme, our party will have no chance of taking coherent form, guarding against opportunism or navigating the road to socialism, argues Jack Conrad This first appeared in the Weekly Worker February 27 2025 Our fifth round of Forging Communist Unity talks, on February 23, centred entirely on Read more about The latest from ‘Forging Communist Unity’[…]
Our perspectives – AGM 2025
Sober realities and future prospects Mainstream politics continues to move to the right, and that has dragged the opportunist left ever further to the right too. However there are some positive developments. Paul Cooper reports CPGB members and supporters met on February 23 for our annual general meeting, where we discussed political perspectives ( see Read more about Our perspectives – AGM 2025[…]
Communist University Winter 2025
Questions of war and peace Once again it has become common to talk about genocide and the danger of nuclear war. How should we respond? Paul Cooper reports on Winter Communist University, which took place in January 2025 Set against the horrors unleashed in Palestine and Ukraine, it was more than appropriate that this year’s Read more about Communist University Winter 2025[…]
Communist University, Summer 2025
SAVE THE DATE: Communist University 2025 starts on Thursday July 31 and finishes on August 4 – with the option to extend (depending, for example, on developments around the fusion process) More details tbc.
Report from Communist University 2024
Debating in urgent times Against a background of a much expected Labour landslide, war in Gaza and Ukraine, the drive to encircle China and the looming threats of generalised nuclear exchange and climate breakdown, Ian Spencer and Carla Roberts report on this year’s talks It was Mike Macnair who opened CU 2024 on Saturday August 3 Read more about Report from Communist University 2024[…]
Report of the 2023 CPGB AGM
Report on the 202312 CPGB AGM which which was held on February 12 and discussed political perspectives and voted for our Provisional Central Committee. This report was originally published in WW1430, which can be found here. The agreed Perspectives document can also be found on our website here Period of complex contradictions CPGB members met on February Read more about Report of the 2023 CPGB AGM[…]
CPGB Perspectives 2023
Introduced, debated, amended and agreed at February 12 AGM of CPGB members. This document as well as a report of the AGM was published in Weekly Worker 1430
Joint Statement: Social-imperialism is betrayal
Joint statement was issued by the CPGB’s Provisional Central Committee and the Board of the Communist Platform (Netherlands-Belgium) after they met on January 18 to discuss Ukraine and the necessity of combatting social-imperialism