The World - News from April 25, 1988

Britain’s Communist Party was revived after it dissolved last year in a disagreement over the direction it should take. Delegates agreed at a congress in London that the party should operate under the rules that existed before its moderate wing won control in 1985. That year, moderates won all 45 seats on the executive committee, routing the pro-Moscow faction. A new executive committee plans to hold its first meeting May 7. Founded in 1920, the party had 50,000 members in 1945, but it declined to 10,350 members in 1987 and has not had a member in Parliament for 38 years.