#cpgb

Midway between the wars, Comintern was visibly cross with the CPGB [Communist Party of Great Britain]. Communist leaders, it complained, showed inadequate enthusiasm for denouncing the heresies of the non-Stalinist left. A prominent Comintern bureaucrat protested in 1929: "How does it happen that all the fundamental problems of the Communist International fail to stir our fraternal British party? ... All these problems have the appearance of being forcibly injected into the activities of the British Communist Party... In the British Party there is a sort of special system which may be characterised thus: the party is a society of great friends."