The Coordinating Committee of Communist Parties in Britain is a bureau within the CPB which meets with overseas communist parties that have memberships in Britain.
These include:
- the Communist Party of India (Marxist),
- the Communist Party of Bangladesh,
- the Communist Party of Chile,
- the Iraqi Communist Party,
- the Sudanese Communist Party,
- the Cypriot Progressive Party of Working People,
- the Tudeh Party of Iran
- the Communist Party of Greece and
- the Communist Party of Britain.
The Committee meets regularly to exchange political assessments, to organise joint theoretical discussions and to plan events of international commemoration.
It also publishes Solidarity which expresses the view of the CPB, not to be confused with the British Trotskyist newspaper Solidarity.
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