Britain's Road to Socialism

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Current Version of the BRS

Britain's Road to Socialism (BRS) is the programme of the Communist Party of Britain (CPB) and is adhered to by the Young Communist League (YCL) and the editors of the The Morning Star. It was first published in February 1951 as the programme of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and has gone through several revisions since then, most recently in 2000, bringing the document into its seventh edition. The CPGB's programme before the adoption of BRS was entitled For Soviet Britain.

The first edition of the document famously received the personal approval of Joseph Stalin prior to publication.^[1] Britain's Road to Socialism proposes that socialism can be achieved in Britain by the working class leading the other classes in a popular democratic anti-monopoly alliance against monopoly capital, and implementing a left wing programme of socialist construction. Part of this strategy involves winning the labour movement for a left position, through struggle in the existing democratic bodies of the working class, such as Trades Unions, Trades Union Councils and tenant's associations. When the CPGB's leadership abandoned Britain's Road to Socialism in 1985, elements in the party that remained loyal to the programme, including the editorship of The Morning Star split to form the CPB.

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^ Revolutionary Democracy, Vol X111 No.2 Sept. 2007 India

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Britain's Road to Socialism (current edition)

Communist Party of Great Britain

Leadership

General Secretaries	Albert Inkpin (1920–29) · Harry Pollitt (1929-39) · Rajani Palme Dutt (1939-41) · Harry Pollitt (1941-56) · John Gollan (1956-75) · Gordon McLennan (1975-89) · Nina Temple (1989-90)

Assistant General Secretaries	Fred Peet (1920-22) · John Gollan (1947-49) · George Matthews (1949-56) · Bill Wainwright (1956-59) · Bill Alexander (1959-67) · Reuben Falber (1968-79) ·

Chairmen	Arthur MacManus (1920-27) · Willie Gallacher (1943-56) · Harry Pollitt (1956-60) · Tony Chater (1968-70) · John Tocher (1970-74) · Mick McGahey (1974-78) · George Bolton (1980s)

National Organisers	Tom Bell (1920-21) · Bob Stewart (1921-23) · Harry Pollitt (1923-) · Idris Cox (1930s) · R. W. Robson (1930s) · Dave Springhall (1940-43) · Peter Kerrigan (1943-51) · Mick Bennett (1951-54) · John Gollan (1954-56) · Bill Lauchlan (1956-66) · Gordon McLennan (1966-75) · Dave Cook (1975-1980s) · Ian McKay (1980s-1991)

National Industrial Organisers	Ernie Woolley (1925-) · Finlay Hart (1937-39) · Peter Kerrigan (1939-42) · George Allison (1942?-51) · Peter Kerrigan (1951-66) · Bert Ramelson (1965-77) · Mick Costello (1977-83) · Pete Carter (1983-1980s)