The following speech was delivered by delegates from the World Anti-imperialist Platform to Harpal Brar’s memorial meeting on 22 March 2025.
(The video above shows Comrade Harpal addressing the founding conference of the Platform in Paris in October 2022.)
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The revolutionary activities of the communist revolutionary Harpal Brar are deeply embedded in the history of the world’s peoples. In India, where he was born and raised, in Britain, where his revolutionary work began, and around the world, Harpal Brar dedicated himself to strengthening the international communist forces and the world anti-imperialist struggle by educating, organising and mobilising the world’s workers and people in the revolutionary movement.
Harpal Brar made an outstanding contribution through building the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) and advancing the revolutionary movement in Britain and Europe through the challenges and obstacles posed by British imperialism, and through his unwavering adherence to Marxist-Leninist revolutionary thought.
As an honorary delegate during the founding of the World Anti-imperialist Platform, he contributed to the development of the world communist movement and the strengthening of the world anti-imperialist struggle, and practically demonstrated the virtuous life of an internationalist and communist until the end of his life.
The harder a flint is struck, the brighter it shines. Harpal Brar’s unwavering revolutionary principles and uncompromising support for the revolution shone even brighter during the Soviet counter-revolution. He fought at the forefront of the ideological battle for the fate of the international communist movement against the imperialist forces and their followers – the international revisionist, opportunist and sectarian forces, who claimed that the collapse of the Soviet Union meant the collapse of socialism, and he devotedly fought for the unity of the world communist forces.
Harpal Brar stood for internationalist unity with socialist countries such as Cuba, China and the DPRK, which are facing sanctions and repression from the imperialist aggressors unprecedented in the history of the communist movement. He consistently strove to strengthen and expand the anti-imperialist front in international solidarity with anti-imperialist countries such as Venezuela and Palestine.
Harpal Brar’s pure ideas and steadfast revolutionary will, which have made an immortal contribution to the strengthening and development of international communism and the anti-imperialist front, burn brightly in the hearts of all of us.
The ongoing imperialist wars of aggression in eastern Europe and western Asia, and the storm of World War 3 blowing into the east Asia and west Pacific, call more than ever for the unity and struggle of the world anti-imperialist forces with the communist forces at their core.
As a third world war between the anti-imperialist and imperialist camps develops, strengthening the world anti-imperialist front, carrying out anti-imperialist actions on a global scale and advancing victory is the true expression of the loyalty of the future revolutionary generations to the previous revolutionaries who improved for the future.
The World Anti-imperialist Platform will continue to move forward by recalling the noble ideological will of Harpal Brar, who devoted his life to the path of the workers and people.
The socialist construction and independence all over the world that the communist revolutionary Harpal Brar wanted to achieve with his life must be realised.
