Joti Brar

This speech was given at our party’s celebration of the 108th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, held in Southall on 8 November 2025. Comrade Zhou from the Chinese embassy reminds the meeting that China is socialist, and that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the CPC have their origins in and trace their roots to the Great Socialist October Revolution in Russia. We owe a deep debt of gratitude to the heroic sacrifices of the Chinese people and their lasting contribution in building toward a peaceful and stable, sustainable world. https://thecommunists.org/2025/12/23/tv/peoples-republic-of-china-traces-roots-october-revolution/

Two of the hunger strikers are now on day 50. All 8 are at risk of sudden death. 'Here’s a reminder of what these eight unconvicted people, innocent in the eyes of the law and imprisoned without trial for up to 18 months, are suffering at the hands of the state. - Qesser has been arbitrarily put into solitary confinement, had her hijabs confiscated, she has been assaulted and sexualised by prison guards and had her cell forcibly searched. She has twice been refused essential medical care for many hours while in a life-threatening condition. - Heba has had hijabs confiscated and was forcibly moved from HMP Bronzefield to HMP New Hall, hundreds of miles away from her friends, family and support system. While on hunger strike the prison staff have refused to allow her warm clothing. - T has been constantly referred to as a terrorist (despite not being held on terrorism charges) and had her recreational and educational activities cancelled. - Lewie was removed from his job in the servary and confined to his cell after writing ‘I support the hunger strikers’ on a t-shirt. - Umer has been barred from showering or using a prayer mat and refused access to a Quran. He has been assaulted and strip searched for giving the call to prayer. On one occasion prison authorities refused to call an ambulance for him until he passed out. - All prisoners have had their visits and phone calls arbitrarily restricted, their mail withheld and been removed from their prison jobs. Many of them have also been put in solitary confinement, had their cells searched and their access to books, education and recreation restricted. Ask yourself: why are the government, the prison authorities and the media so terrified of unconvicted prisoners held on non-violent charges?' - billy Rufian(ig) 'They won’t imprison us all, they know if they fill the prisons with activists, we will overpower them from within. So flood the damn streets in your millions. Shut down these factories in your thousands! They can never arrest the resistance in our smiles. We will use the shards of our broken hearts to spear the system of injustice.' - Qesser Zuhrah Via Dr Rahmeh Aladwan https://x.com/doctor_rahmeh/status/2002821150292767041

This comrade makes an excellent explanation and differentiation between helpfull discussions for building working class power and bourgeoise tendency for non helpfull discussions. he also references good sources from Lenin in the context. Wouldn't have guessed the comrade to be that deeply founded theory, but he is so good i hope we will soon have him on Talks/podcasts with comrade Nick Cruse or others that are open to invite marxist leninists: http://xhslink.com/o/AKnXD1tVc9t

Our comrades join a march for Venezuela in central London.

Our culture secretary Georgios Korkovelos gives a short but powerful presentation on the lasting cultural legacy of the 1917 October Revolution. Turning from words to song, George introduces Comrade Eleanore Koffi, who sings three beautiful songs, each of profound revolutionary significance. https://thecommunists.org/2025/12/22/tv/cultural-legacy-1917-october-revolution-songs/

Comrade Ismara Vargas-Walter, ambassador for Cuba to the UK and Ireland, speaks at our recent meeting to celebrate the 108th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. As well as talking about the lasting significance of the October Revolution for the people of Cuba and Latin America, she explains the history and impact of the brutal sanctions regime against the tiny socialist nation, highlighting the criminality of the US imperialists who insist on unilaterally measures that the rest of the world regularly condemn. https://thecommunists.org/2025/12/21/tv/cuban-ambassador-britain-speaks-out-against-criminal-usa-blockade/

From the archive: Joti and Garland talk about President Vladimir Putin’s trip to the DPRK, what it means for the anti-imperialist world, and how Russia is increasingly leaning into its Soviet traditions and history in the economic, military, foreign relations and cultural spheres. https://thecommunists.org/2025/12/20/tv/joti-brar-garland-nixon-russia-north-korea-dprk-anti-imperialism-16/

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Very interesting meeting examining the lack of evidence to back up the fantastical official account of what happened to Yulia and Segei Skripal in Salisbury. And the role of this official narrative in creating a climate where the wider population accepts the drive to war with Russia. https://www.youtube.com/live/3K9jUOYsga0

18 December 1878 marked the birth of one of the most resolute revolutionaries and leaders of the proletariat: Joseph Stalin. He led the world’s first socialist state through industrialisation, siege and world war, never abandoning scientific socialism or the principles of Marxism-Leninism. Stalin Society.

A major weapon used by the exploiting class in its quest for eternal primacy is narrative control – in particular the falsification of history and the weaponisation of its false narratives to mobilise workers against one another in the interests of profit-seeking and continued imperialist domination of the globe. Central to the zionist project has been the claim that the jewish state stands outside ordinary political morality. Criticism is not simply disagreement – it is framed as sacrilege. As a result, naming the violence of the Israeli state becomes, itself, a punishable act. This is precisely why the three dissident thinkers at the heart of this article were so vilified: each insisted that no state – including a jewish one – has the right to place itself outside moral scrutiny and international law. https://thecommunists.org/2025/12/18/news/naming-power-zionism-judeo-nazis-politics-of-jewish-supremacism/

"Current laws are inadequate," says police commissioner. "Many of the slogans being used don't meet prosecution thresholds." On behalf of British imperialism and its defence of zionist Israel, the police have now declared that the slogan "Globalise the intifada" to be an arrestable offence and are calling for stronger laws to make it a jailable offence. What is the intifada? The just rebellion of an occupied people against the colonisation of their land and the ethnic cleansing/genocide of their people. Note that the increasingly heavy-handed policing and criminalisation of anti-genocide protestors in the west is all being done in the name of "keeping the jewish community safe". A better incitement to antisemitism would be hard to imagine. https://www.thetimes.com/article/aa2ef5ee-6b6c-4e6a-b911-a600887d7365?shareToken=cf4a31fa653db6d4ff0e3ecc34c04d77