Joti Brar

As the drive into WW3 accelerates, it is no coincidence that increasing numbers of journalists and political activists in Britain are being targeted under draconian ‘anti-terror’ legislation. The ruling class knows that keeping its grip on the narrative is an essential prerequisite for keeping its grip on power and continuing to prosecute its criminal wars abroad and vicious austerity at home. Mass opposition from the organised working class is the only force that can withstand and reverse this trend. https://thecommunists.org/2025/10/31/news/model-motion-oppose-arrest-intimidation-journalists-political-activists/

It is a fact not yet understood by the mass of British workers, even those who are involved in Palestine solidarity, that our own government is not merely somewhat complicit in zionist crimes, but is actively and militarily involved in perpetrating genocidal wars against the people of Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen and Syria. As it is a main protagonist also in the Nato war against Russia in Ukraine. The role of those who are attempting to bring this truth to the wider population is therefore extremely significant. https://thecommunists.org/2025/10/31/news/stand-with-criminalised-for-opposing-genocidal-imperialism/

Come to our meeting tomorrow to hear a report back from Caracas by comrades Ele K and Dan O’Brien! https://youtu.be/OY9qdvrxj_Y?si=V_C0PTAsg-rOBLsQ

Circular 16 — How Labour Tried to Purge the Working Class Communists. In 1928 the Trades Union Congress issued Circular 16. A quiet little order with a big aim: kick those pesky communists out of the labour movement. It told trades councils up and down the country not to seat delegates from “proscribed organisations.” That meant the Communist Party of Great Britain, the Minority Movement, and any group that refused to toe the reformist Labour line. Councils that defied it were threatened with expulsion from the TUC. In places of strong agitation like Liverpool, South Wales, and Scotland, this meant elected, working-class communists, often the most active organisers, were banned from the very institutions they helped build. Circular 16 split the movement right when the ruling class feared another 1926-style general strike. The Labour and TUC leaders referred to it as “protecting unity.” but what it really did was protect the Labour aristocracy, the layer of officials, MPs and careerists who lived comfortably on capitalist concessions and were terrified of a real workers’ movement challenging British capitalism itself. The Labour Party as an organisation was never built for the whole working class. Incidents, and there have been many, like this prove its real objectives. It was built for the privileged section of workers that enjoyed concessions from the ruling class and wanted them to continue. And Circular 16 was another enablement at the time, not against the Tories (their pantomime enemy), but against the revolutionary workers inside their own ranks.

Signs of impending economic meltdown are everywhere. If the ruling elites try to cover it up by printing money to bail out every collapsing entity, the shock will be spread out. Ultimately, this can only kick the can of the disaster a little further down the road and impoverish the masses in a slightly more slow-motion way. It can’t stop the crisis from maturing and spreading across the entire global financial system. This economic crisis is what underpins the war drive, austerity and repression. Capitalism has no way out of its crisis except through brutal austerity and privatisation (hyper exploitation of workers, looting of national assets), further concentration of capital (acquisitions and mergers) and wholesale destruction of people, infrastructure and accumulated products (a nice big war followed by nice big rebuilding contracts). This is less of a merry-go-round and more of a death slide. Time to get off and close up the fairground perhaps?

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If you can get to London, get along to our meeting this Saturday. We will be discussing the roots of the west’s relentless animosity towards Venezuela, the meaning of the country’s new constitution and more. We will hear back from two comrades, vice-chair Dan O’Brien and CC member Eleonore Koffi, who have just arrived back from a week in Venezuela. While in Caracas and the nearby countryside, they spoke at the international conference of the World Anti-imperialist Platform, attended the launch of the Women’s Platform and visited several local communes. On their travels they met Venezuelan workers who are defiant in the face of US President Trump’s bellicose invasion threats, and they joined President Nicolás Maduro on a visit to a communal farm, where food sovereignty is helping to strengthen the people’s will to resist. https://thecommunists.org/events/southall-seminar-why-west-targeting-venezuela-2025-11-01

In the words of Friedrich Engels: Whilst the capitalist mode of production more and more completely transforms the great majority of the population into proletarians, it creates the power which, under penalty of its own destruction, is forced to accomplish this revolution. Whilst it forces on more and more the transformation of the vast means of production, already socialised, into state property, it shows itself the way to accomplishing this revolution. The proletariat seizes political power and turns the means of production in the first instance into state property. But, in doing this, it abolishes itself as proletariat, abolishes all class distinctions and class antagonisms, abolishes also the state as state. Their political and intellectual bankruptcy is scarcely any longer a secret to the bourgeoisie themselves. Their economic bankruptcy recurs regularly every ten years. In every crisis, society is suffocated beneath the weight of its own productive forces and products, which it cannot use, and stands helpless face to face with the absurd contradiction that the producers have nothing to consume, because consumers are wanting. The possibility of securing for every member of society, by means of socialised production, an existence not only fully sufficient materially, and becoming day by day more full, but an existence guaranteeing to all the free development and exercise of their physical and mental faculties – this possibility is now for the first time here, but it is here. Only from that time [the rule of the working masses themselves, and a socialist planned economy] will man himself, with full consciousness, make his own history – only from that time will the social causes set in movement by him have, in the main and in a constantly growing measure, the results intended by him. It is humanity’s leap from the kingdom of necessity to the kingdom of freedom. https://thecommunists.org/2025/04/30/news/capitalist-overproduction-crisis-solved-by-socialist-planned-economy/

Why did the anticommunist alliance at Bristol university feel the need to crop the photograph they circulated of our comrades on campus? https://thecommunists.org/2025/10/29/news/imperialist-alliance-attacks-communist-symbols-bristol-university/

🇺🇸🇻🇪 US tried to recruit Maduro's personal pilot to help capture the Venezuelan leader in exchange for money, but the pilot refused and exposed the plot.

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