COMMUNIST PARTY HQ - COMRADES WINTER AND POLLITT

In a strange omission, while we've already glanced at Hitler's Munich "Brown House", Mosley's London "Black House", the Hereford BUF "Black House, and even witnessed the capture of the Leominster "Black House" by forces of the Independent Republic of Bromyard (Spring Big Game 2022, see label to the right), nothing has yet been said as to the Communist Party of Great Britain's Headquarters, whether in Hereford or London.

So here at least is one of them - 16, King Street, Covent Garden, London, with Communist propaganda in the ground floor windows and offices above:

Throughout the "interwar years", Communist Party HQ in London.
Purchased in 1921, allegedly with money advanced by Lenin himself.

Why visit the Communist Party HQ now ? Well, after the "Disaster at Dinmore" and Comrade Colonel Professor Winter's resulting fears of being "recalled to Moscow", the gossip in the "City & County" tearooms is that Winter has "hotfooted it down to King Street" in a despairing attempt to avoid such a fate. If only the General-Secretary of the CPGB could intercede on his behalf with Comrade Stalin.... 

Harry Pollitt, General Secretary of the CPBG.

The Ludlow VBCW Research Centre has already published some information about Harry Pollitt (see HARRY POLLITT LINK HERE), including the full text of the lyrics of the famous (well, in some circles) "Harry Pollitt Song"! The question now is, can he be persuaded to intercede on behalf of Comrade Winter?

Harry Pollitt types a letter beneath a portrait of Comrade Stalin.
But is the letter to Comrade Stalin, and what does it contain?

Stalin deep in contemplation, papers to his right. Has he received a
letter from Comrade Pollitt? How can the Communist cause best
recover from the "Disaster at Dinmore"? All this, and more, can only
be learned from subsequent blogposts...

Alternative History (i.e. Reality) Note:

The King Street Headquarters is no longer in the ownership of the CPGB, having been sold in 1976, and indeed the CPGB subsequently dissolved itself in 1991. Rather ironically, the King Street premises now form part of the Covent Garden branch of the Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank:

Capitalism's ultimate triumph over Communism - at least in stone. From Communist HQ to HSBC.

For an interesting article (from the BBC) in relation to King Street and its sale, see HERE