Harpal Brar

Harpal Brar

Harpal Brar (born October 5, 1939 in Muktsar, Punjab ) is an Indian-born politician and businessman in Great Britain . Brar is chairman of the British Communist Party / Marxist-Leninist (CPGB-ML) and the Stalin Society, publisher of two political magazines and runs a cloth shop in Hampstead .

Life

Brar has lived in Great Britain since 1962. Since 1979 he has published the bimonthly political journal "Lalkar", a former organ of the Indian Workers' Association in Great Britain. In the summer of 1996 he gave up his work as a professor of private international law at the University of Westminster in London to devote himself entirely to his political and journalistic work. In 1997 he joined the Socialist Labor Party (SLP) around Arthur Scargill. In March 2002 Brar presented his book “Imperialism Today” on a reading tour in 16 different locations in Germany . In 2004 he was expelled from the SLP due to differences of opinion. Together with other excluded SLP members, he founded the CPGB-ML in July of the same year, and he was elected chairman. Brar publishes the party's bimonthly magazine, Proletarian. In 2006 he traveled to North Korea at the head of a party delegation , where he held talks with leaders of the ruling Communist Labor Party .

Works in German translation

• Imperialism in the 21st Century. Socialism or barbarism. Pahl-Rugenstein successor, Bonn, 2001, ISBN 3-89144-293-9 .
• The Economic History of the Soviet Union from the Mid-50s to the End - Outlines of the Economic Destruction of Socialism in the USSR. In: Defeat Analysis. The causes of the victory of the counter-revolution in Europe. Reprint of the best offensive articles , published by the Association for the Promotion of Democratic Journalism e. V., Hannover, 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-021905-4 .
• We must never forget what socialism has done for humanity. In: And facing the future , published by the Association for the Promotion of Democratic Publishing eV, Hanover, 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-029873-8 .

Quotes

From Brar

• "Anyone who wants to understand the economy and politics in the Middle East since the beginning of the 20th century only needs to learn to spell and pronounce a single word and assess its meaning and scope: OIL."
• “Almost every day I am told on the radio that communism is dead. Why? It is not always pointed out that Napoleon is no longer alive. And why now? On the one hand because imperialism has grown in strength after the disappearance of the USSR and because of the chaotic state in which the working class finds itself today and on the other hand because of the weakness of imperialism, which is in the formerly socialist states with growing problems and in Iraq, in Afghanistan, Palestine and Colombia is confronted with a growing national liberation movement. "

About Brar

• "... Harpal Brar, a very high political caliber, a loyal supporter of Stalin, and there is no doubt that he very sincerely supports Stalin and Marxism-Leninism." ( Bill Bland , longtime leader of the Communist League of Great Britain )

Web links

• Short interview about the communist movement in Great Britain
• Article "Bourgeois Democracy and Fascism"
• Talk about the "capitalist crisis"
• Speech to the Oxford Union against the motion “This House Believes Capitalism Can Save the World”
• Talk about Iran

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1. ↑ Harpal Brar and Ella Rule: Imperialism in the Middle East ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Oliver Wagner, Against the witch hunt. “Emergency conference” in Brussels: Communist parties reject “McCarthy paper” of the Council of Europe and organize protest in Strasbourg. ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. kominform.at, January 23, 2006 
3. ↑ Interview with Bill Bland on July 10, 1994, Great Northern Hotel, Euston ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.