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Why internationalism is at the heart of working-class solidarity
LIZ PAYNE shines a light on communist attitudes to global class struggle
Members of the British Battalion, Major Attlee Company, 15th International Brigade, displaying their banner during a lull in the fighting during the Spanish civil war of 1936-39

WORKING-CLASS internationalism is the hallmark of the communist movement worldwide.

This is celebrated in our new one-volume Communist Party history, published to mark our centenary and which we will launch on Saturday November 14. 

What did the internationalism of the Communist Party of Britain look like during its first hundred years and what forms will it take going forward?  

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