revolutionary communist party of britain (marxist-leninist)

The Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist) is a British communist political party. It was originally a Maoist party named the Communist Party of England (Marxist-Leninist), supporting the Three Worlds concept promoted by Beijing, which (for a time in the 1970s) saw it adopting the bizarre position of supporting NATO as a bulwark against Soviet social-imperialism. During the deterioration in Sino-Albanian relations, it increasingly sided with the Party of Labour of Albania. It threw its lot in with Enver Hoxha when the Sino-Albanian split took place in 1978. It is a very small party (perhaps around 40 members) and is closely related to the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) and now has good relations with the New Communist Party of Britain. It produces a weekly newspaper called Workers Weekly, runs a bookshop in south London named John Buckle Books (named after the RCPB (M-L) founding general secretary) and is active in promoting solidarity with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. In 2004, the party declared electoral support for the RESPECT Unity Coalition, but RCPB (M-L) members sometimes run as independent candidates. See also: List of Communist Parties, List of political parties in the United Kingdom, Sino-Soviet split

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