The Communist Party of Great Britain was the largest communist organisation in Britain and was founded in 1920 through a merger of several smaller Marxist groups. The party first gained prominence whe
The CPGB's General Secretary, Harry Pollitt, gives a speech to a large crowd outside the British Museum in support for the Aid to Russia Fund, 1941
CPGB poster supporting the British war effort against Nazi Germany during WWII
Harry Pollitt gives a speech to workers in Whitehall, London, 1941
William Alexander, representing to Politburo of the CPGB receives applause from the Presidium of the Fifth Congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, East Berlin, 16 July 1958.
The Battle of Cable Street was a series of clashes that took place at several locations in the East End of London on Sunday 4 October 1936.
Communist Party of Great Britain
…the Morning Star in 1966), which would remain the party's main publication throughout its existence. In 1936, members of the party were present at the Battle of Cable Street, helping organise resistance against the British Union of Fascists. In the Spanish Civil War, the CPGB worked with the USSR to create the British…
Commemorative plaque at Dock Street, close to the Fascist's Tower Hill muster point.
Benito Mussolini and Oswald Mosley. The BUF was funded by Mussolini and also later by Hitler.
Black House in Chelsea was the barracks of the Fascist Defence Force, and for a time the BUF HQ.
The Home Secretary, Sir John Simon, declined requests to ban the BUF march.