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Overview

The Revolutionary Communist League of Britian (RCLB) was formed in 1977, after merging with other small Marxist-Leninist groups. 

The RCLB published the paper Class Struggle from 1973 until around 1990, the journal Revolution from 1976 to 1980 and the journal October up until the group dissolved in 1998. 

There are a handful of Special Branch reports on the organisation, although there is not much evidence it was targeted by any particular SDS officer,  unit boss HN135 Mike Ferguson indicated to MI5 that the SDS had a source in the group in Feburary 1979.

 

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Family tree of Marxist-Leninist, Maoist anf anti-revisionist groups in the UK
Family tree for Marxist-Leninist, Maoist and anti-revisionist groups in the UK.

 

Reports

Date
Originator
MPS-UCPI
Title
Metropolitan Police Special Branch
MPS-0728981
SDS Annual Report 1977
Metropolitan Police Special Branch
UCPI0000013064
Report on joint public meeting of the Revolutionary Communist League of Britain and the Communist Workers Movement on ‘The Third World, The Main Force Opposing the Two Superpowers’, held at Co-op Hall, 129 Seven Sisters Road on 2 Dec 1978
Metropolitan Police Special Branch
UCPI0000013090
Report on public meeting of the Revolutionary Communist League of Britain on ‘Three World Theory and the Strategy for Revolution in Britain’, held on 5 Jan 1979
MI5
UCPI0000028835
MI5 note for policy file reporting meeting with DCI Ferguson to discuss how cooperation between F6 and SDS could be developed, held at MI5 offices on 22 Feb 1979
Metropolitan Police Special Branch
MPS-0728963
SDS Annual Report 1979, inc Home Office letter authorising continuation
MI5
UCPI0000035300
MI5 letter to Home Office enclosing MI5 draft report ‘Subversive Aspects of Racialist Activity’ (attached)
MI5
UCPI0000035299
MI5 cover letter to Phillips (Home Office) submitting appendices to MI5 report ‘Subversive Aspects of Racialist Activity’ (attached)
Metropolitan Police Special Branch
UCPI0000018423
Report providing principal contact name and address for the Revolutionary Communist League of Britain
Metropolitan Police Special Branch
UCPI0000015845
Report on public meeting of E London Troops Out Movement on 'Police', held at Hackney Trades and Labour club, Dalston Lane E8 on 20 Oct 1982