58th congress of Britain’s communist party: renewal and change in a dangerous timeHISTORY has shown us in the clearest possible terms that when the Communist Party is strong, Britain’s labour movement, left and working class are strong — the struggle for socialism is strong. Around the world, the unique record of communist parties for challenging the ruling class, raising the political consciousness of working people, winning and holding working-class state power and building socialism speaks for itself. One of the many negative forces, but one of the most fundamental, facing the working class today in Britain is the absence of a communist party with this critical mass, strength and influence. This, then, is the reality and the scale of the task facing our cadres and delegates who meet on November 14-16 for our 58th congress. Significant progress has been made over the last two years. Rejecting the stagnation faced by much of the left in Britain, our party has fought to renew and adapt to new circumstances and methods of struggle. A new generation has been inducted into our ranks and is now at the helm of our youth wing, the Young Communist League.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/58th-congress-britains-communist-party-renewal-and-change-dangerous-time Brief History of the Communist Movement in Palestine and Israel The communist movement in Palestine and Israel is as old as the twentieth century upheavals that reshaped the Middle East. It is not the story of dominant political forces or large armies, but of a small and persistent current that, for over a century, has tried to carve out a political path distinct from partition, conquest, and exclusion. Palestinian and Israeli communists—Arabs and Jews—built joint organizations, resisted colonialism, opposed military occupation, and spoke for coexistence at moments when the surrounding climate favored division and hostility. The communist ideology arrived in Palestine during the last years of Ottoman rule and the early British Mandate. In 1919, Jewish socialist immigrants from Eastern Europe created a nucleus that soon became the Communist Party of Palestine (PCP).¹ For its first years it was dominated by Jewish cadres, but under guidance from the Communist Internat
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