The tragic comedy of British communism


Idly wondering whether communism had died in the UK, I discovered The Communist Party of Great Britain and their paper, “The Weekly Worker”.

This edition has a fascinating sidebar — “What we fight for” — which states first and foremost:

Our central aim is the organisation of communists, revolutionary socialists and all politically advanced workers into a Communist Party. Without organisation the working class is nothing; with the highest form of organisation it is everything.

Moments later, I had discovered:

I hope this Pythonesque nonsense speaks for itself.

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