Harpal Brar
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Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) | |
Children | Joti Brar (daughter) Ranjeet Brar (son) |
Harpal Brar (born 5 October 1939) is an Indian
Born in
Brar is the editor of a
Political activities
Brar joined the
He and his comrades officially dissolved the ACW in 1997 to join
Scargill expelled the entire Yorkshire Regional Committee and five members of the National Executive Committee. From this, in July 2004, the
Adopting positions maintained by Brar and his comrades since the 1960s, the CPGB-ML has been vigorously opposed to all those who work with or in any way endorse the Labour Party since its inception. Its stated aim on formation was to oppose opportunism in the working-class movement, revive the "class against class" programme embodied by the Communist Party of Great Britain during the 1920s, and to work for the establishment of socialism in Britain.[6][7]
The Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist) was registered with the Electoral Commission in 2008 under the name Proletarian, which is the title of the bi-monthly newspaper of the CPBG-ML. The party was registered "to prepare for standing in elections".[8]
At the eighth congress of the CPGB-ML in September 2018, Brar announced that he would step down as chairman of the party, to be replaced by Ella Rule.[9]
Views on China
On 19 July 2008, Harpal Brar was one of the people who founded the
Views on India
Brar strongly disagrees with the popular belief that the Indian independence movement was peaceful and pacifist, and was led entirely by Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian National Congress. In his book Inquilab Zindabad: India's Liberation Struggle he argues that a violent and bloody class struggle involving the masses took place. He accuses Gandhi and Congress of supporting British imperialism, describing the latter as "the most compromising, cowardly and obscurantist representatives of the India bourgeoisie".[11]
Views on the Soviet Union
Brar defends the governments and leaders of the USSR until the appearance of
He has chaired and is an active member of the
Publications
For many years, he was on the executive of the
Since 1992, Brar has self-published fourteen books on various aspects of Marxism, imperialism and revisionism. These works are a combination of original material and articles previously published in Lalkar and have been translated and distributed internationally by a number of sympathetic communist parties around the world.
Works
- Inquilab Zindabad, India's Liberation Struggle (2014)
- Revisionism and the Demise of the USSR
- The 1926 British General Strike
- Nato's Predatory War Against Yugoslavia
- Imperialism and War
- Imperialism – the Eve of the Social Revolution of the Proletariat
- Chimurenga! The Liberation Struggle in Zimbabwe
- Imperialism – Decadent, Parasitic, Moribund Capitalism
- Bourgeois Nationalism or Proletarian Internationalism?
- Perestroika: The Complete Collapse of Revisionism (1992)
- Trotskyism or Leninism? (1993)
- Social Democracy: The Enemy Within (1995)
Elections contested
UK Parliament elections
Date of election | Constituency | Party | Votes | % |
---|---|---|---|---|
1997 | Ealing Southall | SLP | 2,107 | 3.9 |
2001 | Ealing Southall | SLP | 921 | 2.0 |
European Parliament elections
Year | Region | Party | Votes | % | Result | Notes |
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1999 | London | SLP | 19,632 | 1.7 | Not-elected | Multi-member constituency; party list |
London Assembly elections (Entire London city)
Date of election | Party | Votes | % | Results | Notes |
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2000 | SLP | 17,401[20] | 1.0 | Not elected | Multi-members party list[21] |
Notes
- ^ a b c d e "Uncle Joe's hero status survives 'demonising disinformation'". The Irish Times. 21 March 2013. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
- ^ a b McSmith, Andy (28 November 2013). "Stalin apologists drink to the memory of Uncle Joe". The Independent. Archived from the original on 9 May 2022. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
- ^ "Ealing Southall 2001 - Parliamentary election results". Ealing Council. 19 August 2011. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
- ^ "Scargill expels Brar". Weekly Worker. No. 530. 26 May 2004. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
- ^ "Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist)". cpgb-ml.org. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
- ^ Formation of the CPGB-ML, Proletarian, August 2004
- ^ Celebrating October, Proletarian, November 2011
- ^ "Index to Statements of Accounts" (PDF). Electoral commission. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 November 2008. Retrieved 19 August 2009.
- ^ "Comrade Harpal Brar steps down as party chairman after 14 years". Proletarian. 24 October 2018. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
- ^ "Britain's Communist Party launches "Hand-Off-China" campaign". Xinhua News Agency. 20 July 2008. Archived from the original on 14 January 2016. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
- ISBN 978-1-874613-22-0.)
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link - ^ Brar, Harpal (2011). "Revisionism and the Demise of the USSR" (PDF). Perestroika. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 August 2011. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
- ^ "The British Road to Revisionism". Lalkar. November 2008. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
- ^ "The revolutionary programmes of British Communism". Lalkar. January 2008. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
- ^ "Stalin Society v CPGB". weeklyworker.co.uk. 20 June 2001. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
- ^ Ella Rule (17 February 2016). "The Katyn Massacre". Stalin Society. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
- ^ John Puntis (17 February 2016). "Ukrainian famine-genocide myth". Stalin Society. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
- ^ Mario Sousa trans. Ella Rule (14 January 2017). "Lies concerning the history of the Soviet Union". Stalin Society. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
- ^ "Socialism with Chinese characteristics" Archived 15 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Lalkar
- ^ "Greater London Authority Election Results". election.demon.co.uk. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
- ^ "Greater London Authority Candidates". election.demon.co.uk. Retrieved 7 September 2015.