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Article: The taint of communism: the Movement for Colonial Freedom, the Labour Party, and the Communist Party of Great Britain, 1954-70.
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- September 22, 2007
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In the British politics of decolonization, the Labour Party and the various anticolonial organizations were forced to craft their political strategies ever mindful of the uneasiness that the decolonization process engendered among the British electorate. (1) The most effective anticolonial organization was the Movement for Colonial Freedom (MCF), founded by Fenner Brockway in 1954. While actively applying pressure both on and within the British government, the MCF was simultaneously fighting a rear-guard campaign against the constant threat of infiltration into the organization from the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), a Party urgently trying to play a meaningful ...