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Harpal Brar highlights

  • British politics / Tenth party congress elects new leadership as capitalist crisis deepens

    CPGB-ML delegates sum up vital lessons of the last few years, assessing the effect of the crisis on global and local conditions.

    26 Apr 2025 ,
  • Civil liberties / London Metropolitan police review of Harpal Brar’s book on zionism

    ‘It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good’ was not my favourite proverb at school, but I’ve recently come to fully appreciate its meaning.

    21 Mar 2025 , Proletarian
  • British politics / A brief history of British Trotskyism

    A plethora of groups with one real purpose: to confuse and disgust the working masses and keep them away from genuinely revolutionary politics.

    1 Jan 2025 , Lalkar
  • Americas / Trump elected as US president

    And the USA’s political and economic crisis is likely to deepen further when it is seen how little of the longed-for change can be delivered from the White House.

    1 Jan 2025 , Lalkar
  • USSR / Stalin’s Library by Geoffrey Roberts – a resumé and review, pt 1

    ‘Much of Stalin’s youthful political style derived from that of his master and political exemplar, Lenin.’

    1 Jan 2025 , Lalkar
  • British politics / Joti Brar interview: ‘We are links in the long chain of revolution’

    Marx and Engels bequeathed essential values for every generation of revolutionaries: humility, service, dedication, discipline, sacrifice.

    17 Oct 2024 , Za Pobedu!
  • Palestine / The Palestinian resistance is changing the world

    The entire settler-colonial project is on the rocks, and with it the Anglo-American imperialist domination of the middle east.

    2 Mar 2024 , Lalkar
  • British politics / Rishi Sunak becomes Britain’s third prime minister in seven weeks

    No changing of the guard can address the fundamental problem the British ruling class faces – a deepening crisis of overproduction that it is powerless to overcome.

    9 Nov 2022 , Lalkar
  • British politics / Farewell to Eric Levy

    A lifelong antirevisionist and anti-imperialist fighter who never failed to act on his beliefs and never gave up his faith in the socialist future of humanity.

    25 Sep 2022 , Lalkar
  • Cuba / Harpal Brar: Support Cuban medical disaster relief team for Nobel peace prize

    Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade has saved thousands of lives across the world.

    1 Mar 2021 , Lalkar
  • USA / Crisis in America: Trump, Biden and the Capitol Hill affair

    How has the US arrived at the point where it is disarming its own national guardsmen?

    12 Feb 2021 , Proletarian
  • China / Harpal’s book on China renders ‘invaluable assistance’ to working class

    We must find a way to evaluate market socialism honestly without giving up support for people’s China.

    15 Jan 2021 ,
  • China / The Chinese revolution: ‘One of the greatest moments in human history’

    Packed London meeting celebrates 70 years of New China and pledges support for its people and government.

    2 Oct 2019 , Proletarian
  • World history / The origins of World War Two

    How did WW2 come about? And when were the opening salvos really fired?

    11 Aug 2019 , Lalkar
  • British politics / Comrade Harpal Brar steps down as party chairman after 14 years

    Party congress elects new officers and vows to rebuild the communist movement in Britain.

    24 Oct 2018 ,
  • Zimbabwe / Tribute to Comrade Robert Mugabe

    A sad end to an illustrious life in the service of the oppressed masses.

    1 Dec 2017 , Proletarian
  • Germany / A tribute to East Germany’s General Heinz Kessler

    Defender of communism to the last.

    1 Jun 2017 , Proletarian
  • Australia / Ray Berbling: a life in struggle (1935-2015)

    Ray was a dedicated Australian Marxist-Leninist and a lifelong friend of the the Soviet Union.

    1 Dec 2015 , Proletarian

Harpal Brar topics

  • Actually-existing socialism
  • DPRK
  • Fascism
  • Harpal Brar
  • Japanese imperialism
  • Korean reunification
  • Korean revolution
  • Korean war
  • South Korea
  • US imperialism
  • WW2
  • Anti-imperialism
  • CPGB-ML
  • Tenth congress
  • Harpal memorial
  • Antisemitism campaign
  • Jeremy Corbyn
  • Justice system
  • Labour party
  • NHS
  • Racism and immigration
  • War crimes
  • Zionism
  • Anti-imperialist Platform
  • British imperialism
  • Deborah Lavin
  • Friedrich Engels
  • Godfrey Cremer
  • Indian liberation struggle
  • Iraq war
  • Iris Cremer
  • Irish liberation struggle
  • IWA
  • Josef Stalin
  • Karl Marx
  • Leninism
  • Libya war
  • Mao Zedong
  • Margaret Thatcher
  • Marxism
  • Miners strike
  • Obituaries
  • October Revolution
  • Revisionism
  • Trotskyism
  • VI Lenin
  • Zimbabwe liberation struggle
  • CP Cuba
  • CP Kenya
  • CPC
  • Isabel Crook
  • NKPJ
  • Opportunism
  • PRCF
  • Social democracy
  • Yugoslav war
  • RCP
  • Donald Trump
  • Drive to war
  • Housing crisis
  • Identity politics
  • Inflation
  • Joe Biden
  • Nato
  • Regime change
  • Sanctions
  • Ukraine war
  • Anticommunism
  • Transcaucasia
  • BDS
  • Free speech
  • German imperialism
  • WW1
  • The state
  • Chinese Revolution
  • Vietnam war
  • Women
  • Feudalism
  • Media lies
  • Planned economy
  • Tibet
  • Imperialist war
  • Cold war
  • Eastern Europe
  • Third International
  • WMD
  • Ansarullah movement
  • Arms industry
  • Colonial crimes
  • Gaza
  • Hezbollah
  • Hunger
  • Intifada
  • Oil and gas
  • United Nations
  • West Bank
  • Yemen war
  • CIA
  • Lenin 100
  • Afghan war
  • Bourgeois democracy
  • French imperialism
  • Second International
  • Brics
  • CPRF
  • Garland Nixon
  • Overproduction crisis
  • Refugee crisis
  • Workers rights
  • Maoism
  • Market socialism
  • Birmingham
  • Communalism
  • Inequality
  • Liz Truss
  • Poverty
  • Rishi Sunak
  • Tax
  • Tory party
  • Utilities
  • Julian Assange
  • Non-cooperation
  • Victory Day
  • Food industry
  • BJP
  • Farmers movement
  • Protests and strikes
  • Caribbean
  • Covid-19
  • Cuba blockade
  • Cuban Revolution
  • Latin America
  • Letters
  • Barack Obama
  • Capitalist crisis
  • Corruption
  • Hillary Clinton
  • Lenin 150
  • China 70
  • George Galloway
  • Anarchism
  • Philosophy
  • Eighth congress
  • Nuclear power
  • Seventh congress
  • Congo war
  • Austerity
  • Brexit
  • General election 2017
  • GDR
  • Civil rights
  • Black nationalism
  • Crimea
  • European Union
  • Arab spring
  • Syria war
  • Tony Blair

Harpal Brar video

  • Korea / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: The origins of the DPRK

    How did a socialist state come to be formed in the northern part of Korea, and how has it become the world’s longest-surviving socialist country?

    27 Apr 2025, Proletarian TV
  • British politics / Communist revolutionary Harpal Brar lives in the hearts of the world’s people

    During the Soviet counter-revolution, he was at the forefront of the ideological battle for the fate of the communist movement.

    1 Apr 2025,
  • China / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: Chinese Revolution 3: Building socialism

    Wiping out feudal and imperial control and laying the basis for a modern industrial economy, New China set the stage for the sovereignty and dignity of its people.

    18 Aug 2024, Proletarian TV
  • Theory TV / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: Imperialism and war

    What do Marxist theory and working-class history teach us about war, and how should this knowledge inform our struggle for a just and lasting peace?

    19 Jul 2024, Proletarian TV
  • USSR / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: imperialism and nuclear weapons

  • USSR / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: the Sino-Soviet split

  • British politics / Book launch video: Britain’s Perfidious Labour Party

  • Theory / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: The immortal legacy of VI Lenin

  • World TV / Garland Nixon and Harpal Brar: India, Russia, China and anti-imperialism

  • China / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: Chinese Revolution 2: The PLA and WW2

  • USSR / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: Soviet Union defeating fascism

  • Theory TV / Harpal Brar: Lenin is still key to understanding imperialism and war

  • China / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: Chinese Revolution 4: The cultural revolution

  • Divide and rule / Harpal Brar on Avtar Jouhl: Above all he was a fighter for socialism

  • Theory TV / Harpal Brar: Lenin on party building (One Step Forward)

  • World TV / Harpal Brar to Anti-imperialist Platform: ‘Imperialism is going to crash’

  • USSR / Harpal Brar: Why celebrate the Soviet and allied victory over fascism in 2022?

  • China / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: Chinese Revolution 1: Birth of China’s Red Army

  • Theory TV / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: The Communist International

  • USSR / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: Industrialising the USSR

  • USSR / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: Soviet farming – revolution in the countryside

  • USSR / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: How the October Revolution changed the world

  • China / Harpal Brar on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics

  • Divide and rule / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: Capitalism and immigration

  • World TV / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: The Indian farmers’ movement

  • China / Review: Socialism with Chinese Characteristics by Harpal Brar

  • USSR / Comrade Harpal: October Revolution message 2020

  • USA / US election 2020: Biden v Trump: is there a difference?

  • Zimbabwe / Comrade Harpal defends the legacy of Robert Mugabe on RT

  • Capitalism or communism TV / The end of history – or the end of capitalism?

  • History TV / WW2: The 70th anniversary of the victory over fascism

  • Theory TV / Anarchism or socialism?

  • Britain TV / Revolution in Britain

  • Theory TV / Harpal Brar on Trotskyism or Leninism?

  • Capitalism or communism TV / Soviet communism – the truth

  • Capitalism or communism TV / Capitalism can’t save the planet

  • Theory TV / Harpal Brar on the state and revolution

  • USSR / The fall of the USSR

  • USSR / Soviet preparations for World War Two

  • Theory TV / Trotskyism Q&A

  • Britain TV / Comrade Harpal on Lenin, opportunism and the Labour party

  • Britain TV / Harpal Brar on the myth of Labour antisemitism

  • Korea / CPGB-ML’s Harpal Brar discusses DPRK on BBC’s primetime The One Show

  • Britain TV / Our vision: Harpal Brar on the tasks of the party

  • British politics / General election 2017: what did it mean?

  • World / Harpal Brar on colour revolutions and counter-revolutions

  • Working-class history / What did the Indian workers do for us?

  • Britain TV / Indian workers in Britain

  • India / Why hasn’t India had a revolution like China?

  • India / Indian elections 2014: The BJP and Nirendra Modi

  • Ukraine / Ukraine: Oppose the fascist coup

  • Syria / Defend Syria

Harpal Brar theory

  • Working-class history / Obituary: Harpal Brar, revolutionary founder of the CPGB-ML

    Sixty years of dedicated service to the anti-imperialist movement by an outstanding revolutionary have left a lasting legacy for the British working class.

    5 Mar 2025, Lalkar
  • British politics / Comrade Harpal Brar: a life entirely dedicated to the cause of socialism

    Our party’s founding chair has died, but his work lives on in a new generation of revolutionaries, both in Britain and around the world.

    26 Feb 2025, Proletarian
  • Theory / Book: Zionism by Harpal Brar

    A racist, antisemitic and reactionary tool of imperialism. Read the book they want to ban!

    31 Dec 2024,
  • Theory / Book: Trotsky(ism): Tool of Imperialism by Harpal Brar

    Unless the pernicious influence of this Trojan horse is rooted out, our movement will succeed neither in stopping imperialist war nor in overthrowing imperialist rule.

    10 Dec 2024,
  • USSR / Stalin – the History and Critique of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo, pt 3

    Those who are in the business of fighting for the victory of socialism are duty-bound to make a study of the real Stalin, a giant in the history of our movement.

  • USSR / Stalin – the History and Critique of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo, pt 1

    Domenico Losurdo is one of the small minority of historians and thinkers who have the courage and candour to swim against the tide.

  • British politics / Book: Britain’s Perfidious Labour party by Harpal Brar

    An essential history for every sincere worker who wishes to make sense of the political landscape in Britain and find an effective way forward.

  • World history / Lessons of 1914: Imperialism means war

    Reams of WW1 historiography serve only to conceal the essence of that terrible conflagration – which gave birth in its turn to the era of proletarian revolution.

  • Divide and rule / Book: Capitalism and Immigration

    Our strength is in our unity, and our rulers know it well.

  • Theory / Book review: China’s Great Road by John Ross

    The battle between socialist and bourgeois ideas is not one in which workers can be neutral: on its outcome, humanity’s fate depends.

  • USSR / Harpal Brar: Long live Leninism!

    Why does Lenin hold such an honoured position in the lexicon of socialist leaders? A century later, what can we learn from his teachings?

  • Working-class history / Lessons of the Communist (Third) International

    What can workers today learn from the experience of the Comintern?

  • Zimbabwe / Book: Chimurenga! The liberation struggle in Zimbabwe

    A vital lesson in the importance of solidarity with anti-imperialist national-liberation struggles.

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