The label Revolutionary Communist Party was used by two independent organizations in the UK, one active during and after the second World War, the other active in the 1990s.
Revolutionary Communist Party (1944-1949)
Revolutionary Communist Party (Furedi)
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The RevolutionaryCommunistParty (UK) started as a Trotskyist political organisation in 1978 and slowly metamorphosed into a libertarian group.
The party started life within the RevolutionaryCommunist Group, which had split from the International Socialists in the 1970s.
Disagreements about the course the RevolutionaryCommunist Group should take led Frank Furedi, a sociologist at the University of Kent to leave it and form its own group, the RevolutionaryCommunist Tendency, which later changed its name to the RevolutionaryCommunistParty (RCP).
The Socialist Party of France, led by Jules Guesde and Edouard Vaillant.
The clue to the behaviour of the CommunistParty in any country is the military relation of that country, actual or potential, towards the USSR In England, for instance, the position is still uncertain, hence the English CommunistParty is still hostile to the National Government, and, ostensibly, opposed to rearmament.
In Spain the Communist 'line' was undoubtedly influenced by the fact that France, Russia's ally, would strongly object to a revolutionary neighbour and would raise heaven and earth to prevent the liberation of Spanish Morocco.
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