The CPB, first and foremost, as a party is not active enough, not revolutionary enough, it is reformist, revisionist, most members don’t read much theory (if any) and as a branch - aka whatsapp group chat - they are not disciplined enough. This is pretty bad but maybe I can try work to improve them, you might be thinking, like I did.

HOWEVER it gets much worse because the party also has plenty of past controversies, such as multiple cases of sexual assault on young female members, policy which strongly indicates, hell, confirms, it is run by TERF’s (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists) and many TERF members within it which I have seen firsthand share their transphobic and other recationary narratives go, mostly, uncriticised.

I was never expecting perfection but I have become aware just how beyond flawed this party really is, I would go as far as to state that this party is not even a communist party but instead a social-democratic, capitalist, reformist party with reactionary social views that merely uses a populist communist image to grow.

You will see people share this kind of sentiment from things they hear and see online, I can confirm as someone who stupidly joined them, ignored the warning signs and attended various meeting, that they really are as bad as other comrades say that they are, once you drop your rose-tinted sunglasses, it is obvious.

If Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Ho Chih Minh, Kim Il Sung, Thomas Sankara were still alive to see this party, I can say with full confidence that none of them would support this party in it’s current state. Even still, some members of the CPB are good people, with good intentions, good views, who want a working class revolution. And what these members need to realise and accept is that this party is majorly misaligned with your views and therefore not worth your continued support at all.

This is a follow-up of sorts to my previous post on here about a week ago. I hate that this party exists, it needs to be destroyed and in my position currently, this is about all I can do, share on somewhere (that I’m not banned on and enjoy socialising on lol) where potential future CPB members and current members may see, the absolute necessity for entirely opposing and definitely not supporting this awful party on all fronts.

To those who are sucking on that CPB copium and won’t take my word for it, check out prolewiki’s article on them here: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Communist_Party_(Britain)

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    Its a rite of passage as a UK leftist to understand how fucking awful the CPB are. I remember walking up and speaking to a few at a wages demo I was at with a trans friend of mine, saw two old fellas holding a banner and I was naive so I walked up to them and was like ‘whats up commies, im also a commie how about we hangout’ and they just kinda sneered at me, looked at my trans friend and said ‘you lot arent welcome here’

    Yeah…

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        Sometimes you read something and its meaning passes over you till you go and experience something then the quote comes back to you and you now understand things on a deeper level.

        Marx made his famous remark that, if their politics represented Marxism, “ce qu’il y a de certain c’est que moi, je ne suis pas Marxiste” (“what is certain is that I myself am not a Marxist”).

        This was the quote that I now understood following this experience.