Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee)

The Communist Party of Great Britain is a political group which publishes the Weekly Worker newspaper. The CPGB (PCC) claims to have "an internationalist duty to uphold the principle, 'One state, one party'. To the extent that the European Union becomes a state then that necessitates EU-wide trade unions and a Communist Party of the EU". In addition, it is in favour of the unification of the entire working class under a new Communist International. In 1989, the group held a conference which voted to form a revolutionary wing of the CPGB, termed the "Provisional Central Committee". The CPGB dissolved itself in 1991, and The Leninist group continued as an independent organisation. In 1993, its newspaper became the Weekly Worker, and included contributions from people who were not members of the group, including Boris Kagarlitsky and Paul Le Blanc. Mike Macnair became the group's leading theoretician, and the group has been critical of Stalinism.

In 1999, the group stood candidates for two UK constituencies in the European elections. Prevented from using the CPGB name it stood as 'Weekly Worker'.

In 2015, the CPGB (PCC) supported Jeremy Corbyn in his successful campaign to be elected leader of the Labour Party.

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