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EC commissions and suchlike bodies |
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CP/CENT/COMM. Includes materials relating to the 1951, 1958, 1968 and 1978 versions of 'British Road to Socialism', together with those of the later policy documents (Facing Up to the Future, issued... (more...) |
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Executive Committee |
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CP/CENT/EC. Parties, like the CPGB, which were affiliated to the Communist International (or Comintern), were obliged to send transcripts of the deliberations of their leading bodies to the Comintern headquarters in... (more...) |
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Harry Pollitt papers |
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CP/IND/POLL. Harry Pollitt (1890-1960) was the CPGB's general secretary from 1929 to 1939 and 1941 to 1956. In the Stalinised communist party, the general secretary's role was a crucial one, which... (more...) |
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Industrial Department |
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CP/CENT/IND. For opponents of the CPGB, one of the most disturbing features of British communism was its alleged manipulation of trade union grievances to promote economic chaos. These were bogeys that... (more...) |
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International Department, International Affairs Committee and external relations |
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CP/CENT/INT. Records relating to the CPGB's international functions are of particular interest given the unique significance such associations had for a communist party. Even after the Comintern's dissolution, there was no... (more...) |
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John Gollan papers |
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CP/IND/GOLL. Long groomed as Pollitt's successor and attaining the general secretaryship of the CPGB in the difficult year of 1956, John Gollan (1911-1977) was to retain the position for some two... (more...) |
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Miscellaneous EC sub-committees & non-industrial advisory committees, etc. |
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CP/CENT/CTTE. Includes records for various ad hoc sub-committees or departments of the EC notably including the Parliamentary Department (CP/CENT/CTTE/01/01) which, in the late 1940s, oversaw the activities of the CPGB's... (more...) |
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National congresses and similar conferences |
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Series: CP/CENT/CONG. According to the rules adopted in 1943, the National Congress was the 'supreme authority' of the party and responsible for laying down the 'general lines' of its work. Delegates'... (more...) |
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National Cultural Committee |
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CP/CENT/CULT. In 1975 the so-called Gould Report detailed the penetration of Marxists into British universities and drew particular attention to the CPGB's successful annual event, the Communist University of London. One... (more...) |
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Political Committee |
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CP/CENT/PC. The CPGB Political Bureau (PB), which was renamed Political Committee (PC) in 1944, was a subsidiary committee of the Central/Executive Committee. The role and function of the PB/PC was set... (more...) |
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