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THE Communist Party of Britain concluded its 57th Congress today with a call to intensify the strike wave, resist the drive to war and build the party in communities throughout the land.
Over 100 delegates representing a growing membership of over 1,300 met for two days at Croydon’s Ruskin House, debating resolutions on the Palestine crisis, the new cold war, union organising and many other topics.
Congress elected an executive committee of 35 comprising the following cadres: Nisar Ahmed, Georgina Andrews, Mollie Brown, Ron Brown, Sean Cannon, Judith Cazorla Rodenas, Ben Chacko, Andy Chaffer, Tony Conway, James Crossley, Mary Davis, Lorraine Douglas, Nigel Flanagan, Alex Gordon, Rob Griffiths, Richard Hebbert, Victoria Holmes, Johnnie Hunter, Hugh Kirkbride, Mark Jones, Gawain Little, Ben Lunn, Stephanie Martin, Roger McKenzie, David Morgan, Kevan Nelson, Helen O’Connor, Christiane Ohsan, Liz Payne, Ruth Pitman, Dan Ross, Carol Stavris, Keith Stoddart, Ruth Styles and Jonathan White.
The CPB's congress aims to build the united front against monopoly capitalism, utilising the YCL’s promising new generation of militants — but our party remains far from the strength history requires of it, despite recent progress, writes JOHNNIE HUNTER
The EIS president who defended Marxist politics in the 1980s fought Thatcherite educational policies while organising Teachers for Peace rallies and ensuring Morning Star circulation in Scotland’s pit villages and factories, writes JOHN FOSTER
In an address to the Communist Party’s executive at the weekend international secretary KEVAN NELSON explained why the communists’ watchwords must be Jobs not Bombs and Welfare not Warfare