The British Communist Left

The British Left is better known since Sylvia Pankhurst and the Workers’ Dreadnought group were targets of Lenin’s pamphlet Left-wing communism, an infantile disorder (as it is usually known, though “a sickness of childhood” would be a more accurate translation). However, their struggle against the degeneration of the International has either been buried by the interested slander of Left Communism by Stalinists and Trotskyists alike, or distorted by the equally interested attempts of the anarchists to hi-jack the Left Communist tradition.