From: "Christopher C Jones"
> A communist party in continuous open and legal existence since the 30s
> (before? it may have been established illegally in the 20s, can't
> remember) in an advanced capitalist country is very rare.
Try Scotland.
Willie Gallagher was re-elected as as a CP Westminster MP in the wake of the
catastrophic break-up of the ILP, and held his Glasgow seat way into the
fifties ...
I used to watch him, out of my bedroom window limp past, then.
SBT
Robin
{Mind you, think of Italy ...
The Scottish CP was always more run from Russia than the Italian CP was ...
C3P0}
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