Organization
The society is based on individual membership but political groups such as the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist), and the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) are notably prominent within it. Many have pointed to a considerable overlap of membership with Arthur Scargill's Socialist Labour Party. The Stalin Society's chair, Harpal Brar, for instance, was at one time a member of both organisations (although he subsequently left the SLP to head the CPGB-ML). Through Brar, the society was also linked to the Association of Communist Workers. One of its founders, Bill Bland, was expelled in a doctrinal dispute.
The society’s website also contains documents that deny the responsibility of the Soviet government during the time of Stalin’s leadership for the Holodomor, the Great Purge, or the Katyn Massacre, which they variously dismiss as propaganda, describe as fair process, or blame on the Nazis.
The society continues to hold public meetings, most often at Conway Hall in central London. The Stalin Society has produced many booklets on CPSU purges, famines and George Orwell. The Society is greatly gaining influence abroad these days. A Stalin Society has recently been formed in Pakistan where it is using Stalinism as a tool to fight fascist terrorism and to counter anti-Stalin propaganda.
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