Corporate DS/UK/562 Communist Party of Great Britain; 31 Jul 1920-1991; Political party Communist Party of Great Britain 31 Jul 1920-1991 Political party 31 July 1920 founded after the merger of smaller Marxist groups, as the Third International (Comintern) advocated for more communist parties worldwide 1920 founded the Comminist, its weekly newspaper January 1921 the party was refounded as members of the Communist Party (British Section of the Third International) joined 1923 renamed their paper the Workers Weekly 1991 the fall of the Soviet Union, fractures the group into many smaller organisations.

Great Britain During the Comics Campaign Council (CCC), Sam Aaronvitch member of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and full-time organiser for the CPGB helped shape and fit the campaign to the CPGB's goals. The CCC was mainly staffed CPGB members including Peter Mauger, Joe Benjamin, Diana Sinnott St John, and Simon Yudkin. Since the CPGB 1951 Cultural Conference the CPGB had warned against the influence of American culture on Britain. Aaronvitch wanted to protect British culture and saw his goals as pro-British rather than anti-American. During the conference Mauger speech detailed the influence of American comics and how they would debase children's minds. Members were encouraged to mention what had been spoken about at the conference and raise them at meetings, conference, debates and more. The CCC was one of the ways the CPGB tried to encourage people to engage with its politics and ideology. CPGB members in other organisations such as the National Union of Teachers (NUT), also used objections to comic books to push their politics. Mauger was a NUT member and Communist as was Max Morris, who spoke out against comics books, later rose to President of the NUT. The CPGB tried to hide their connection to and motive behind the CCC, with some members of the CCC and many of the public unaware of its ideology and agenda. Barker, Martin. 1984. A Haunt of Fears. Pluto Press. Barker, Martin. 1992. A Haunt of Fears. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ‌Gravett, Paul. “Comic Books: A Freakish Kind of Writing.” The Guardian. The Guardian. May 2, 2014. Accessed January 19, 2026. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/02/comic-books-freakish-writing. Johnston, Derek. 2023. “‘Sadists and Readers of Horror Comics’: British Post-War Identity in Viewer Responses to the BBC’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954).” Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 43 (3): 833–51. doi:10.1080/01439685.2023.2173378. International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes emills 26/01/2026 emills 26/01/2026 b197006e-7c7c-4aa1-bf05-768f769117e5