Democratic Left (Great Britain)

Democratic Left
Predecessor	Communist Party of Great Britain
Successor	New Politics Network ; Democratic Left Scotland
Formation	11 November 1991
Dissolved	December 1998
Type	Think Tank, Campaign group
Legal status	Dissolved
Headquarters	6 Cynthia Street, London N1 9JF
Region	England, Scotland, Wales
Membership	1,600 (1991); 836 (1998)
Secretary	Nina Temple

Democratic Left was a post-communist political organisation in the United Kingdom during the 1990s, growing out of the Eurocommunist strand within the Communist Party of Great Britain and its magazine Marxism Today (which closed around the same time).

It was established in 1991 when the CPGB decided to reform itself into a left-leaning reformist political multi-issue grassroots think-tank based on the party's Manifesto for New Times.^[2]^[3] Its secretary was Nina Temple, the last general secretary of the CPGB.^[4]

Many members of the CPGB disagreed with this decision and joined the Communist Party of Britain, which had broken away from the CPGB in 1988, while some Scottish members formed the Communist Party of Scotland.^[1]

^ ^a ^b Cite error: The named reference marxism was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Manifesto for New Times (1990), Lawrence and Wishart
^ Bull, Martin J.; Paul Heywood (1994). West European Communist parties after the revolutions of 1989. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0-312-12268-3.
^ Cohen, Nick (23 October 2000). "Up for grabs: £3.5m of Stalin's gold". New Statesman. Retrieved 9 February 2010.

[marxism-1] Cite error: The named reference marxism was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[2] Manifesto for New Times (1990), Lawrence and Wishart

[3] Bull, Martin J.; Paul Heywood (1994). West European Communist parties after the revolutions of 1989. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0-312-12268-3.

[gold-4] Cohen, Nick (23 October 2000). "Up for grabs: £3.5m of Stalin's gold". New Statesman. Retrieved 9 February 2010.

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