Communist Organisation in the British Isles

Not to be confused with British and Irish Communist Organisation.

Communist Organization in the British Isles
FoundedJanuary 1, 1974 (1974-01-01)[1]
Dissolved1980
Split fromBritish and Irish Communist Organization
NewspaperProletarian (C.O.B.I.)
IdeologyMarxism-Leninism
De Leonism
Political positionFar-left

The Communist Organisation in the British Isles (COBI) was a Marxist-Leninist political party in Britain and Ireland. It was founded in 1974 by members of the British and Irish Communist Organisation (BICO) who disagreed with BICO's stance on workers' control, which the COBI described as reducing "the working class to a plastic object of bourgeois history" and "fundamentally anti-Marxist".[2] The COBI, however, retained several of BICO's policies, including supporting the partition of Ireland, backing the UK joining the European Economic Community, and opposition to Trotskyism.[2]

  1. ^ "Proletarian, No. 1". 1974.
  2. ^ a b "What is the Communist Organisation in the British Isles?". Proletarian. No. 1 – via Marxists Internet Archive.