The Family Tree of the Anti-Revisionist Movement in the UK

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The Family Tree of the Anti-Revisionist Movement in the UK

Communist Party of Great Britain Founded1920 Committee to Defeat Revisionism for Communist Unity 1963 – 1965 South West London Young Communist League (Michael McCreery) Forum, inner Party Ewan McColl Finsbury opposition 1963 Communist Workers Association Party of (Peter Seltman) Leeds Group 1964–to date Scotlandil ML Hammer & Anvil Group 1966-83 Coventry Workers Tom Murray Association Action Centre for ML Birmingham Group Unity 1965 Dick Jones Irish Communist Organisation 1965 Communist Workers’ Camden Communist Revolutionary Brent Workers Hardial League West of Movement 1966 Socialist Students Marxist-Leninist Association 1967 Federation ‘London Workers Bains England 1966 Organisation of (London Branch) British Marxist Leninist Group Organisation 1967 Britain 1967 The English London Co-Coordinating Committee Working Internationalist 1967 Revolutionary Peoples” Party Marxist Leninist Joint Committee of Communist Communist Party of Britain ML of England 1968 League 1969 Paul Noone 1968 (Manchanada) 1968 (Reg Birch) Coventry & London Communist Grp Brent Workers Association School Action Association of Communist Communist Federation of Britain ML 1969 Union Sketch of Workers 1969 (Harpal Brar) English Communist 30 years of ML North Movement ML1970 organisational Communist Unity London Irish National Liberation Organisation 1971 Alliance in Solidarity Front British & Irish developments Communist Party of Defence of Communist Marxist Workers’ Organisation 1971 England ML 1972 Communist Workers League of Leninist Marxist Industrial Group Rights 1970 Britain 1971 “The Marxist” Workers Association Workers’ 1972 Institute of Mao Birmingham Zedong Communist Thought 1974 Association Communist Unity Communist Communist (Balakrishan) Association Organisation of 1975 East London League 1975 ML 1975 the British Isles ML Joint Action Committee 1975-77 Barker 1974 Association Revolutionary 1977 Nottingham Communist Communist Communist Workers’ Movement Communist League 1975 League of Britain 1976 Group 1975 Bland ML 1977 ‘Communist Unity Workers Revolutionary Communist Stockport Communist Newsletter Party of Britain ML 1979 Group 1979 Group 1980 National Committee RCLB CPBML Bevan for ML Unity 1997 1981- Society Party Alliance 2002 Mosquito Press 1983 1998 Communist organisation of England Revolutionary Internationalist Contingent 1984 later Revolutionary Communist Maoists (MLM) ? .

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