Britain's Road to Socialism (BRS) is the programme of the Communist Party of Britain (CPB) and is adhered to by the Young Communist League (YCL) and the editors of the Morning Star newspaper. The "British Road to Socialism", as it was then known was first published in February 1951 as the programme of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and has gone through several revisions since then, most recently in 2000, bringing the document into its seventh edition. The CPGB's programme before the adoption of BRS was entitled For Soviet Britain.
The first edition of the document received the personal approval of Joseph Stalin prior to publication. Britain's Road to Socialism proposes that socialism can be achieved in Britain by the working class leading the other classes in a popular democratic anti-monopoly alliance against monopoly capital, and implementing a left-wing programme of socialist construction. Part of this strategy involves winning the labour movement for a left position, through struggle in the existing democratic bodies of the working class, such as Trades Unions, Trades Union Councils and tenant's associations. When the CPGB's leadership abandoned Britain's Road to Socialism in 1985, elements in the party that remained loyal to the programme, including the editorship of The Morning Star split to form the CPB in 1988.
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