As Feud Between Galloway and the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) Turns Bitter CPGB ((M-L) accuses George of creating “a left-social-democratic vehicle for bourgeois parliamentarism and anticommunism”.
Speculation Grows About House of Lords Tea-Room Meeting with Baroness Fox to form United Red-Brown Front on Low Traffic Neighbourhoods between Spiked, ex-RCP, and the Ruthlessly Purged Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist).
Editor’s note (‘The Communists’):
Our party was a motive force in launching the Workers Party of Britain in December 2019, and communists were at the heart of the vibrant campaign in Birmingham described below.
However, developments since that time have led our comrades to consider that the WPB has failed in its stated aim of becoming a truly broad movement within which communists could work openly, transforming itself into a left-social-democratic vehicle for bourgeois parliamentarism and anticommunism.
We have therefore withdraw our members’ efforts from the Workers party project. Our stance towards the Labour party in particular and social democracy in general remains unchanged.
The Workers Party of Britain’s Birmingham branch held a well-attended rally on Saturday 5 June in newly pedestrianised York Road. This short road is said to be one of the main beneficiaries of the Birmingham low-traffic neighbourhood (LTN) scheme, as it transforms what is typically a wet side street into a veritable Venice Beach
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Workers party hosts popular rally against LTN scheme in Birmingham
An excellent example of socialists connecting with the community in order to advance their interests and raise their understanding.
The cause of motorists to drive everywhere and the needs of small businesses in King’s Heath are the cause of the people!
The struggle extends across the land:
The CPGB (M-L) have a proud history of voting for the patriotic bourgeoisie:
Sources indicate an alliance with Claire Fox is already in the pipe-line.
Tendance Coatesy 
Slightly surprised at this fall out. I always knew the Galloway/SWP alliance in Respect was shaky and wasn’t surprised when it did come to an end. However, because they are so similar politically. Is this really about money/influence using ideology as a cover ?
IainF
November 28, 2022 at 5:39 pm
There is a long friendship between the Brar dynasty and Galloway,
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Through his long and interesting career, George Galloway has had plenty of criticism hurled at him from left and right. This is how one splendid formation responded to his record in 2004: “We now hear from [the New Communist Party] words of praise for Respect, the SWP-led anti-communist electoral alliance fronted by George Galloway, a man who had to be thrown out of the imperialist Labour Party kicking and screaming (although anyone with anti-imperialist principles would have walked out long ago) and who also supported forces dedicated to the violent break-up of Yugoslavia as a state.”[1] So, Galloway, by virtue of his Labour Party membership, was deemed to be severely lacking in anti-imperialist principles.
These lines were penned by the newly formed Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) (CPGB-ML) in 2004, led by Harpal Brar and shortly to develop into a family dynasty (his offspring, Ranjeet and Joti, now play leading roles in the organisation). Of course, the CPGB-ML are loyal foot soldiers of Galloway in the Workers Party of Britain (WPB), so it would be interesting to know what the Brars now think of this 2004 characterisation of their new leader. This relationship is not being squirrelled away by the WPB. Joti Brar is deputy leader of the WPB and according to its website: “The Communists [the new branding of the CPGB-ML] have a long history of working with George on various issues. In 2019, The Communists stood alone with George on many questions, not least the defence of the Brexit referendum result and opposition to Labour’s treachery on this question… The Workers Party wants communists to play an active role, and we’re appealing to British workers, whether they have formerly been in the Brexit Party, UKIP, the Labour Party, a socialist organisation or none, to get involved with and build this party.”[2]
True love blossoms
It’s clear that the relationship between Galloway and the Brar dynasty began mellowing long ago. In fact, the CPGB-ML ended up by being heartened by events in Respect, as Galloway began to fall out with another fantabulous family dynasty in the form of the SWP’s John Rees and Lindsey German. After Galloway’s victory in the Bethnal Green and Bow constituency in the 2005 general election, Harpal Brar couldn’t quite contain his glee that Gorgeous George was giving the Trot SWP and its gormless leaders a hard time inside Respect. Obviously channelling Weekly Worker reports (of which Harpal was an avid reader) of the time, he said: “Although it is the counter-revolutionary Trots of the SWP who provide the foot soldiers for Respect, it is Galloway who takes the important policy and programmatic decisions. Time after time, on a whole range of issues, the SWP have voted with Galloway in defiance of their professed principles.”[3] Brar added, truthfully enough: “Galloway can do without the SWP. The latter, on the other hand, are nothing without Galloway.”[4] This is illuminating in the sense that during the Batley and Spen by-election we also had CPGB-ML members having to front a ‘law-and-order’ campaign for more bobbies on the beat, presumably in thrall to Galloway and in “defiance of their professed principles”. At least, the CPGB-ML has the consolation that communist parties campaigned for similar patriotic right-wing politics during the popular front era overseen by Stalin. (The pop-front SWP had no such firm ideological fall-back with the Anti-Nazi League or Respect; not that this made any difference.)”
https://communistpartyofgreatbritainhistory.wordpress.com/2021/07/05/galloway-cpgb-ml/
Andrew Coates
November 28, 2022 at 6:54 pm
“Although it is the counter-revolutionary Trots of the SWP who provide the foot soldiers for Respect, it is Galloway who takes the important policy and programmatic decisions. Time after time, on a whole range of issues, the SWP have voted with Galloway in defiance of their professed principles.”
The most infamous example was when the SWP supported opposition to the slogan “No Immigration Controls” within Respect saying that, “We can’t send George onto Newsnight with a policy like that !”. Tellingly, at a Respect conference debating the subject, the Party sent SWP Black members like Gary McFarlane to the podium to argue against the SWP’s long standing policy position. Not that this did them any good with Galloway in the long run.
IainF
November 29, 2022 at 5:23 pm
Then there was this… (2017)
“Andrew Murray – who helped to run Labour’s general election campaign – said it is “long past time” for the left-wing former MP to be brought back into the fold.
A Labour spokesperson refused to rule out re-admitting the former Respect leader to the party.
Mr Galloway was expelled in 2003 over comments he made against the Iraq war, including calls for British troops to “refuse to obey illegal orders”.
According to the Morning Star, former Communist Party member Mr Murray – who is the Unite union’s chief of staff – has described that decision as “vicious, illegal and disgraceful”.”
He also praised Mr Galloway for his role in “the leadership of the movement” through his opposition to the war.
https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/jeremy-corbyn-ally-calls-for-george-galloway-to-be-readmitted-to-labour-party
Andrew Coates
November 29, 2022 at 11:34 pm
“Left-social-democratic”? As opposed to Littlejohn-esque equations – like the Sun or Mail at their absolute worst, as covered here before – of modern Germans with Nazis, accusations that even Peter Hitchens unequivocally condemns and distances himself from?
februarycallendar
November 28, 2022 at 5:56 pm
You make the assumption, alas all too common, that this lot, who come put with such as this, “Solidarity with people’s Korea on the Day of the Sun 2022
Progressive humanity has every reason to celebrate the birth of the great Korean Marxist and revolutionary Kim Il Sung.” have even a faint glimmer of left wing politics, or, indeed rationality.
https://thecommunists.org/2022/04/15/news/solidarity-peoples-korea-dprk-day-of-the-sun-kim-il-sung/
Andrew Coates
November 28, 2022 at 7:04 pm