Bill Bland

Bill Bland was a British, anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist and dentist who was notable as a worldwide leader of the rather small movement that backed Enver Hoxha, the Albanian communist leader, in the struggles over Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy in the later 1960s. Before becoming a leader of the small anti-revisionist movement Bland was a member of the Communist Party of New Zealand and the Communist Party of Great Britain. Bland considered Mao Zedong a deviationist while still maintaining that Hoxha himself was a true Marxist-Leninist in the tradition of Marx, Lenin and Stalin. Bland's position was strengthened after the Sino-Albanian split and he formed the Communist League of Great Britain.