Line of March

<p><em>Line of March</em> is essential reading for students of British and world communism left-wing activists and those interested in the development of Marxism in Britain.</p><p>Max Adereth provides an overview of the development and the debates on the programmes of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) from its foundation in 1920 to the mid-1980s.</p><p>Marxist economist Ron Bellamy added a later perspective covering the fall of the Soviet Union and other European socialist countries and the inner-party conflict that developed around the influence of ‘Eurocommunism’ culminating in the destruction of the CPGB and the re-establishment of the Communist Party of Britain.</p><p>The book covers a wide range of topics; the nature of left-alliances the character of the British Labour Party the need for a Marxist party of the British labour movement the lessons to be learnt from the collapse of the Soviet Union and the inter-relationship between class race and gender oppression.</p><p>The book has been revised from its original publication in 1994 and includes a foreword by Kenny Coyle on developments over the past 20 years. <br />The book is published to mark the centenary of the foundation of the Communist Party in Britain.</p>