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Leninist League (UK)

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The Leninist League was Oehlerite organisation set up by Dennis Levin in Glasgow, Scotland in 1932, originally as the Glasgow Leninist League.

August Thalheimer of the Communist Party Opposition (KPO) sent regular reports to the Leninist League while he was in Spain, during the Spanish Revolution.

During the Second World War the Leninist League opposed the war, both before and after the Hitler-Stalin Pact.

They participated in the Glasgow Apprentices Strike of March 1937.

In 1939 they participated in the founding of the Provisional International Contact Commission for the New Communist (Fourth) International alongside:

  • Red Front of Greater Germany
  • Revolutionary Workers League (United States)
  • Revolutionary Communist Organisation (Austria).

    • In 1947 it amalgamated with the Socialist Workers League.

    Members included:

  • Hugh Esson
  • Ernest Rogers
  • Joe Thomas

    • References

    Leninist League (UK) Wikipedia
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