Communist League (UK, 1919)

Communist League
AbbreviationCL
LeaderGuy Aldred
Founded16 March 1919 (1919-03-16)
DissolvedEarly 1920 (1920)
Split fromSocialist Labour Party
Succeeded byAnti-Parliamentary Communist Federation
NewspaperThe Communist
IdeologyLeft communism
Anarcho-communism
Abstentionism
Political positionFar-left

The Communist League was a small far-left organisation in the United Kingdom which existed during the year of 1919. Its stated goal was to establish a network of workers' councils that would "resist all legislation and industrial action directed against the working class, and ultimately assuming all power, establish a working class dictatorship".[1]

  1. ^ Shipway 1988, p. 12.

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