W. Bill Bland was born on 28th of April, 1916 in the town of Ashton-under-Lyne in England. First he studied in a local primary school until the age of ten, then he continued at Manchester Grammar School. Because of financial difficulties, he left the school and started to work. When he went to Soviet Union in 1937 he saw the tremendous positive changes that were achieved by the socialism in human life and began to be interested in socialism.

He moved to New Zealand just before the 2nd World War began. There, he studied economics. He became a member of the Communist Party of New Zealand. He worked in this party as a secretary for district-work for many years. He assumed responsibilities in the "Marxist School" in Auckland city and gave lessons on Marxism. Later, he returned to England and participated in the Communist Party of Great Britain and took on active responsibilities. After the 20th Congress of the CPSU, he struggled against both the revisionist attitude of the CPGB and CPSU. In 1960`s, he founded the Marxist Leninist Organisation of Britain together with other people who had the same ideological point of views. Later, in 1976, this organisation has renamed as Communist League.

Through his research on Mao Tse Tung thoughts, he found that Mao's thoughts were another form of revisionism, and refused his thoughts.

Bill Bland have worked in his organisation as a great teacher, theoretician and practitioner until his death in 2001. He played an important role in the formation of the National Committee for Marxist Leninist Unity in Great Britain. He showed great interest for art, especially for theatre. His film on Albania, "Land of Eagles" was shown in different film festivals and television channels. He made many researches and wrote articles. He also wrote a book called "The restoration of capitalism in the Soviet Union".

Bill Bland, who dedicated all his life to the liberation struggle of the humanity, always tried to protect the purity of Marxism-Leninism and tried to practice it correctly. He also conducted a merciless struggle against all types of revisionism and Trotskyism.

We consider the commemoration of Bill Bland, who had a distinguished personality in the fight against imperialism, capitalism and all types of revisionism, as our internationalist revolutionary duty.

We are calling upon all revolutionaries, communists and antifascists to commemorate together with us Bill Bland and all the other revolutionary martyrs.

The revolution and socialism martyrs are immortal!

Long live the internationalism of the proletariat!