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The RDG consistently sought alliances with other socialist groups with the aim of forming a larger democratic socialist party. For example, it began working with the Socialist Federation in 1984. For the
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to explain the nature of the British state, and sought to demonstrate links between the existence of the monarchy and the continuation of capitalism.
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With no website, publication or official activity, the RDG appears to be moribund. Its former leader Steve Freeman has since been involved with the
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in 2010 as an Independent and in 2015 as the candidate of the Republican Socialist Party.
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and the Republican Socialist Alliance. Freeman stood for Parliament in
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Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee)
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and occasionally produced one-off editions of its own paper,
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Communist Party (British Section of the Third International)
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Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist)
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Workers' Institute of Marxism–Leninism–Mao Zedong Thought
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and occasionally had articles in that group's paper, the
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to build a new workers' party. The RDG briefly sold the
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Communist Party of South Wales and the West of England
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The ideological centre of the RDG was a commitment to
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Committee to Defeat Revisionism, for Communist Unity
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Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist)
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