 The Braddocks were not comfortable as CPGB members . They objected to the lack of autonomy afforded to local branches by the party 's central " Political Bureau " , and to what they perceived as the leadership 's unquestioning subservience to the Soviet Union . Mary Bamber , after a visit to Russia , opined that there were as many true communists in Liverpool as in Moscow . In 1924 , increasingly convinced that communist rule would lead to the enslavement rather than the liberation of workers , the entire leadership of the Liverpool CPGB branch , including both Braddocks , resigned from the party . 
