Joti Brar

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You have to pity the fools who get to run around after Trump clearing up the messes he makes when he says the quiet part out loud. On the other hand, he’s a gift to the oppressed. He might as well hold up a sign saying: “Imperialists can never be trusted. We will use force to get what we want and all our words to the contrary are just lies to fool you into relaxing your vigilance. “You will never coexist peacefully in the same world as us. The path to peace lies through the dispossession of the monopoly capitalist class and the destruction of the capitalist-imperialist system.” Taliban refuses to return air base to US despite Trump threat President warns ‘bad things will happen’ if Afghanistan does not return site https://archive.ph/HYQbQ

Someone asked me recently how I, a scientific socialist, can justify support for theocratic Iran. But as socialists, we do not judge movements by how they describe themselves, by the formal nature of their orientation, but by how they impact the global balance of forces in the struggle against imperialism, which is the primary enemy of humanity; the primary block to socialist advance – in the world today. The correct approach to national-liberation movements was indicated repeatedly by Marx, Engels. Lenin and the Bolsheviks made this Marxist approach the cornerstone of their successful programme of defeating imperialism and establishing a multinational socialist state. The approach was beautifully summed up by Stalin in 1924: "The unquestionably revolutionary character of the vast majority of national movements is as relative and peculiar as is the possible revolutionary character of certain particular national movements. The revolutionary character of a national movement under the conditions of imperialist oppression does not necessarily presuppose the existence of proletarian elements in the movement, the existence of a revolutionary or a republican programme of the movement, the existence of a democratic basis of the movement. "The struggle that the Emir of Afghanistan is waging for the independence of Afghanistan is objectively a revolutionary struggle, despite the monarchist views of the Emir and his associates, for it weakens, disintegrates and undermines imperialism; whereas the struggle waged by such 'desperate' democrats and 'socialists', 'revolutionaries' and republicans as, for example, Kerensky and Tsereteli, Renaudel and Scheidemann, Chernov and Dan, Henderson and Clynes, during the imperialist war was a reactionary struggle, for its results was the embellishment, the strengthening, the victory, of imperialism. "For the same reasons, the struggle that the Egyptian merchants and bourgeois intellectuals are waging for the independence of Egypt is objectively a revolutionary struggle, despite the bourgeois origin and bourgeois title of the leaders of Egyptian national movement, despite the fact that they are opposed to socialism; whereas the struggle that the British 'Labour' government is waging to preserve Egypt's dependent position is for the same reason a reactionary struggle, despite the proletarian origin and the proletarian title of the members of the government, despite the fact that they are 'for' socialism. "There is no need to mention the national movement in other, larger, colonial and dependent countries, such as India and China, every step of which along the road to liberation, even if it runs counter to the demands of formal democracy, is a steam-hammer blow at imperialism, ie, is undoubtedly a revolutionary step. "Lenin was right in saying that the national movement of the oppressed countries should be appraised not from the point of view of formal democracy, but from the point of view of the actual results, as shown by the general balance sheet of the struggle against imperialism, that is to say, 'not in isolation, but on a world scale'." JV Stalin, Foundations of Leninism, 1924. https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/foundations-leninism/ch06.htm

Professor David Miller writes on X: Tomorrow at Wembley Stadium there will be a massive concert billed as Together for Palestine. Surely we can trust that there will be no Zionist or intelligence agency connections to this event? Sadly, there are concerning questions about the people organising the event. Choose Love and T4P Events The money raised is being channelled through a charity called Choose Love. But it has a history of being in receipt of money from Zionist foundations and also from the Rockefeller Brothers (a well known CIA pass through group). It has in the past given money to the Zionist group the New Israel Fund and to the International Rescue Committee, a group headed by the ex Foreign minister of the UK, David Miliband. It was originally founded as a 'covert network' by the CIA. T4P Events, which is organising the show, is a company only created on 29 May this year. It has two directors - Anna Nolan and James Sadri. Both have been involved in an organisation called the Syria Campaign which was set up to provide propaganda cover for the White Helmets in their attempts to foster regime change in Syria from 2014. The White Helmets were the creation of the British intelligence agency MI6 and were supported by other Western intelligence agencies. It is alleged that they were accessories to the killing of civilians in Syria as part of several managed massacres designed to frame the Assad government with fake chemical weapons attacks. In other words the directors of T4P Events are potentially accessories to alleged war crimes against civilians in Syria. Choose Love welcomed the regime change operation led by Julani, and his ISIS-in-suits regime in 2024 as a 'liberation'. It even funded the White Helmets to the tune of more than $500,000 to put on a show of looking for secret prisoners in Sednaya prison. Even the White Helmets admitted this was a total failure. Can we be assured that Choose Love and T4P Events have the best interests of the Palestinians in mind at Wembley tomorrow? Watch in detail on the latest edition of Palestine Declassified with special guest Vanessa Beeley.

The fourth part in this series of articles written by Comrade Harpal Brar shortly before his death. * Contrary to the myths peddled by Khrushchev and Trotsky and repeated endlessly by anticommunist historians, Josef Stalin was a selfless, modest and devoted revolutionary, and a lifelong student of Marxist-Leninist science. https://thecommunists.org/2025/09/01/news/history/stalins-library-geoffrey-roberts-resume-book-review-pt4/

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Leaving aside the ever-present question of the environmentally-devastating wars the imperialists need to wage to maintain their hold over the world’s people and resources, and despite huge subsidies to monopoly capital to deliver a ‘green transition’, it is clear that the capitalist system is incapable of changing its ways as far as the environment is concerned. It is simply not possible for corporations, or the governments that rule on their behalf, to prioritise long-term planning over short-term profitability. https://thecommunists.org/2025/09/01/news/largest-offshore-wind-monopoly-record-crash/

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Among all the madness of the house, only Zimmerwald stood sober." V. Mayakovsky 110 years ago, in the remote Swiss village of Zimmerwald, 38 delegates from 11 European countries gathered for a conference that called for an end to the world war. The authorities of the warring Europe were very afraid of talks about peace, so many arrived illegally, and the delegates themselves presented themselves as ornithologists and tourists. Lenin arrived in Zimmerwald on foot with a backpack on his back and a walking stick in his hand, and to the delegates who were discouraged by their small numbers, he encouragingly said: "It doesn't matter that we are few; millions will be with us." And he was prophetic. If 1914-15 passed in a pseudo-patriotic frenzy, by 1916 the moods on both sides of the front changed sharply: the main masses of the population visibly saw all the horrors of war and the senselessness of its goals. In this, it was very different from the Second World War, which posed a threat to dozens of peoples not only of losing statehood but also of genocide. The First World War, although it became a new unprecedented slaughter, mainly pursued economic and territorial interests. Under these conditions, the manifesto adopted by the conference had a pacifist tone, but the left managed to include provisions of revolutionary Marxism in it, in particular the recognition of the war as imperialist and the condemnation of social chauvinism. The Bolsheviks and other revolutionary internationalists decided to join the Zimmerwald association. At this conference, a new association led by Lenin arose — the "Zimmerwald Left" — more consistent and revolutionary. It put forward the slogan of the transformation of the imperialist war into a civil war. Lenin foresaw that the weakening of power in wartime would allow revolutionaries to replace it. At the same time, he emphasized: "War is a very diverse, complex thing. You cannot approach it with a general template: Three main types: (I) the relationship of the oppressed nation to the oppressing one (every war is a continuation of politics; politics is the relationship between nations, classes, etc.). As a general rule, war is legitimate on the part of the oppressed (whether defensive or offensive in the military sense). (II) The relationship between two oppressing nations. The struggle for colonies, markets, etc. (Rome and Carthage; England and Germany 1914–7). As a general rule, war of this kind on both sides is robbery; and the attitude of democracy (and socialism) towards it falls under the rule: "Two thieves fight — let both perish"… To his comrades, Lenin explained that he was not against any war, but against the imperialist war that began in 1914: "In the imperialist war of 1914 between two imperialist coalitions, we must be against 'defense of the fatherland,' because imperialism is the eve of socialism... in both, the socialist revolution has matured. Only for this reason are we against 'defense of the fatherland,' only for this reason!" And to those who mechanically applied the slogan of one historical period to another, he patiently explained: "The concept of 'defense of the fatherland' is hated by many because blatant opportunists and Kautskyites use it to cover up and obscure the lies of the bourgeoisie in this predatory war. This is a fact. But it does not follow that we should stop thinking about the meaning of political slogans. It would be simply foolish to deny 'defense of the fatherland' on the part of oppressed peoples in their war against imperialist great powers or on the part of the victorious proletariat in its war against the bourgeois state." At that time, Zimmerwald had a tiny handful of socialists from different countries who themselves laughed at their small numbers. But in just 16 months, they would become a formidable force in all warring countries, and Milyukov would state: "Russia is captive to Zimmerwald." The "Zimmerwald Left" itself would, in 1919, transform into the powerful Comintern, which would rewrite the history of the 20th century. OP here

Bristol bus drivers are on strike today over poor pay and worsening conditions. Meanwhile, their employer First Group’s operating profits reached £204.3m in 2024, and shareholder dividends increased by 45 percent. These profits, created by milking drivers and passengers alike, weren’t invested in new buses or better wages. They were pocketed by parasitic shareholders who have zero accountability to the hundreds of thousands of workers relying on functional public transport. https://thecommunists.org/2025/09/18/leaflets/bus-drivers-decent-pay-passengers-decent-service/

Nazi-Nato cartoon by the Danish communist illustrator Herluf Bidstrup, who received the International Lenin Peace Prize in 1964.

Hyperbolic statements about the ‘threats’ posed by migrants and asylum seekers, alongside blanket media coverage given to theatrical acts of deportation, are being used to stoke social tensions, distract workers from the real cause of their problems, justify militarisation of the police, and encourage scapegoating. All of which keeps migrant workers disciplined and fearful, while simultaneously fuelling the narrative amongst the rest of the working class that migration is responsible for all the social and economic problems they face. https://thecommunists.org/2025/09/17/leaflets/no-deportations-defend-tfl-workers/