__NOTOC__ The Communist League of Great Britain was an anti-revisionist group in the

United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of European mainland, the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...

. It origins were in the

Communist Party of Great Britain The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was the largest communist organisation in Britain and was founded in 1920 through a merger of several smaller Marxist groups. Many miners joined the CPGB in the 1926 general strike. In 1930, the CPGB ...

, where a faction formed around Bill Bland. Initially Maoist, it joined the majority of the Committee to Defeat Revisionism, for Communist Unity in 1965 to form the Action Centre for Marxist-Leninist Unity, publishing ''Hammer or Anvil''.John Moorhouse, ''A Historical Glossary of British Marxism'' (Pauper's Press, 1987) In 1967, this was renamed the Marxist–Leninist Organisation of Britain. Soon after, the group ceased supporting Mao, instead supporting

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- although

Enver Hoxha Enver Halil Hoxha ( , ; ; 16 October 190811 April 1985) was an Albanian communist revolutionary and politician who was the leader of People's Socialist Republic of Albania, Albania from 1944 until his death in 1985. He was the Secretary (titl ...

was aligned with Mao at the time. Following a split the MLOB was renamed the ''Communist League'' in 1975, its ideological position strengthened with the Sino-Albanian split. The group remained active into the new millennium, but became less so since Bland's death in 2001, and their website contains no new content since that year. The ''Communist Party Alliance'', a successor group working within the Stalin Society, had their own site which was active until 2009.

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*Peter Barberis, John McHugh and Mike Tyldesley, ''Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations''

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