Communist League (disambiguation)
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The Communist League is the name of several different organisations:
- The original Communist LeagueCommunist LeagueThe Communist League was the first Marxist international organization. It was founded originally as the League of the Just by German workers in Paris in 1834. This was initially a utopian socialist and Christian communist group devoted to the ideas of Gracchus Babeuf...
, led by Karl MarxKarl MarxKarl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of social science and the socialist political movement...
and Friedrich EngelsFriedrich EngelsFriedrich Engels was a German industrialist, social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of Marxist theory, alongside Karl Marx. In 1845 he published The Condition of the Working Class in England, based on personal observations and research...
- The Communist LeagueCommunist League (Austria)The Communist League of Austria was a pro-China communist group in Austria. The KBÖ was founded on August 6, 1976 in Vienna .The first congress of KBÖ was held in January 1978...
of Austria - The Communist League in Australia
- The Communist LeagueCommunist League (Canada)The Communist League in Canada was founded as the "Revolutionary Workers League/Ligue Ouvrière Révolutionnaire" in 1977 as the result of a merger of the League for Socialist Action , the Revolutionary Marxist Group and the Groupe Marxiste Revolutionaire.Originally a Trotskyist party, the RWL was...
of Canada - The Communist LeagueCommunist League (Denmark)The Communist League was a political party in Denmark. KF was founded on 21 January 1973 in Århus, by the 'Leninist Fraction' inside the Left Socialists ....
of Denmark - The Communist LeagueLeague of Communists (Finland)League of Communists is a Finnish Marxist-Leninist political organization. The League of Communists was founded in 14.9.2002 by the Communists who were expelled from the For Peace and Socialism - Communist Workers Party...
of Finland - The Communist League of France, which became the Revolutionary Communist LeagueRevolutionary Communist League (France)See Revolutionary Communist League for the other Ligue communiste révolutionnaire.The Revolutionary Communist League was a French democratic revolutionary socialist political party. It was the French section of the Fourth International...
- The Communist LeagueCommunist League (Iceland)The Icelandic Communist League was a grouping affiliated with the Socialist Workers Party , a part of its international network of affiliates, the so-called Pathfinder Tendency...
in Iceland - The Communist League (India, 1931)
- The Communist League (India, 1934)
- The Communist League (India, 1950)
- The Communist League (India, 1971)
- The Communist League of India (Marxist-Leninist)Communist League of India (Marxist-Leninist)Communist League of India , was founded by a faction of the Central Reorganisation Committee, Communist Party of India -Ram Nath group on February 20, 1978. CLI holds that India is a less developed but still capitalist country, so the coming revolution will be a socialist one...
- The Communist League of LuxemburgCommunist League of LuxemburgCommunist League of Luxemburg , was a pro-China communist group in Luxembourg. KBL was founded in 1970. The secretary of KBL was Charles Doerner. KBL published Roude Fändel ....
- The Communist LeagueCommunist League (Nepal)The Communist League was a Nepalese communist organization founded in Kathmandu in 1946. It is the source group from which the Nepal Red Communist Party came from....
of Nepal, an early communist group in that country - The Communist LeagueCommunist League (New Zealand)-History:The party was founded in 1969 by students from Victoria University of Wellington, and was originally named the Socialist Action League. The new party rejected the more established groups such as the Communist Party as too authoritarian, conservative, and unimaginative, but at the same...
of New Zealand - The Communist LeagueCommunist League (Sweden)Communist League . A small political communist party in Sweden, connected to the Socialist Workers Party of the United States, and distributor of the Militant and part of the Pathfinder organization....
in Sweden - The Communist League (Uganda) in Uganda
- The Communist League of West GermanyCommunist League of West GermanyThe Communist League of West Germany was a Maoist organization in West Germany which existed from 1973 until 1985. The KBW contested the general elections in 1976 and 1980 in West Germany and was rated as the strongest of the German Maoist parties from 1974 until 1981...
- Several Communist Leagues in the UK:
- The Communist League (UK, 1919)Communist League (UK, 1919)The Communist League was a small organisation of the far left in the United Kingdom. It was founded in March 1919 by the London District Council of the Socialist Labour Party and various anarchist groups in London and Scotland. These included Guy Aldred's Glasgow Anarchist Group...
, an anarchist communist group. - The Communist League (UK, 1932)Communist League (UK, 1932)The Communist League was the first Trotskyist group in Britain. It was formed in 1932 by former members of the Communist Party of Great Britain from Balham and Tooting in South London, including Harry Wicks. They had been expelled after forming a loose grouping inside the CPGB, known as the...
, the first Trotskyist group in Britain. - The Communist League (UK, 1988)Communist League (UK, 1988)The Communist League was formed by a group of members expelled in 1988 from Socialist Action. Those members had joined the American Socialist Workers Party's Pathfinder tendency. It maintains a bookshop in London, originally in The Cut but now in Bethnal Green Road.The League's members sell The...
, part of the Pathfinder tendencyPathfinder tendencyThe Pathfinder tendency is the unofficial name of a group of historically Trotskyist organizations that are politically and organizationally allied with the Socialist Workers Party of the United States and its perspective of solidarity with the Cuban Revolution and the Cuban Communist Party.The...
. - The Communist League (UK, 1990)Communist League (UK, 1990)The Communist League was a small Trotskyist organisation in Britain. Better known as Movement for a Socialist Future, it split from the Marxist Party in 1990, claiming to hold more closely to the ideas of Gerry Healy. In 1994, it published a strongly positive biography of Healy, with a foreword...
, a split from the Marxist PartyMarxist PartyThe Marxist Party was a tiny Trotskyist political party in the United Kingdom. It was formed as a split from Sheila Torrance's Workers' Revolutionary Party in 1987 by Gerry Healy and supporters including Vanessa and Corin Redgrave. At first, it was also known as the Workers Revolutionary Party,...
. - The Communist League of Great BritainCommunist League of Great BritainThe Communist League of Great Britain is an anti-revisionist group in the United Kingdom.It origins lie in the Communist Party of Great Britain, where a faction formed around Bill Bland. Initially Maoist, it joined the majority of the Committee to Defeat Revisionism, for Communist Unity in 1965 to...
, an anti-revisionistAnti-RevisionistIn the Marxist–Leninist movement, anti-revisionism refers to a doctrine which upholds the line of theory and practice associated with Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, and usually either Mao Zedong or Enver Hoxha as well...
group formed in 1995
- The Communist League (UK, 1919)
- The Communist League of AmericaCommunist League of AmericaThe Communist League of America was founded by James P. Cannon, Max Shachtman and Martin Abern late in 1928 after their expulsion from the Communist Party USA for Trotskyism. The CLA was the United States section of Leon Trotsky's International Left Opposition and initially positioned itself as...
in the USA - The Communist League of YugoslaviaLeague of Communists of YugoslaviaLeague of Communists of Yugoslavia , before 1952 the Communist Party of Yugoslavia League of Communists of Yugoslavia (Serbo-Croatian: Savez komunista Jugoslavije/Савез комуниста Југославије, Slovene: Zveza komunistov Jugoslavije, Macedonian: Сојуз на комунистите на Југославија, Sojuz na...
in the former YugoslaviaYugoslaviaYugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....
See also
- International Communist League (disambiguation)
- Revolutionary Communist League (disambiguation)
- Pathfinder tendencyPathfinder tendencyThe Pathfinder tendency is the unofficial name of a group of historically Trotskyist organizations that are politically and organizationally allied with the Socialist Workers Party of the United States and its perspective of solidarity with the Cuban Revolution and the Cuban Communist Party.The...