Social democracy Socialism Communism Northern Ireland Scotland Wales Other The Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist) has its origins in the Sussex University-based English student movement, part of the Hardial Bains-inspired tendency, known as the Internationalists; and it formed following their Necessity For Change conference in 1967.

[4] Like other Bains-inspired parties, the CPE (ML) took the Chinese side in the Sino-Soviet split, thus being endorsed by Albania, allied at the time with Maoist China, and opposing both the capitalist West and the Soviet bloc in accordance with the Three Worlds Theory promoted by Beijing.

In January 1974, four members of the party were found guilty of possession of petrol bombs and assaulting police.

The party had links with the progressive music milieu in the 1970s, with avant-garde composers such as Cornelius Cardew[9] and Michael Chant being leading members.

RCPB-ML official Roger Nettleship has stood for House of Commons seats such as Jarrow in 2005[14] and South Shields in 2001 and 2010.