Forwarded from Joti Brar
This little speech I gave to a Resist (remember them?) conference back in 2021) is a wee blast from the past. Reposting because the fundamental point I was making remains true:
We are not interested in 'uniting the (self-identifying, imperialist-friendly) left'. We want to unite the maximum possible number of workers AGAINST BRITISH IMPERIALISM.
Our allies in this struggle are not the bought-off Labour and trade union bureaucrats (who must be swept away) but the masses of exploited people all over the world who are facing the same murderous exploiters and colonisers.
Imperialism gains much of its domestic strength by looting the resources of the whole world. Its machinery of wealth extraction and social control must be dismantled from both ends if we are ever to know liberty; if our children and grandchildren are going to have the chance to grow up in peace and dignity.
Whenever anyone talks to you about 'unity', always remember to ask: WITH WHOM and FOR WHAT? Otherwise you will find you have been tricked into keeping quiet about everything important in the interests of not upsetting some group of charlatans who are actually working for your class enemies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZHY_JfOPw0
We are not interested in 'uniting the (self-identifying, imperialist-friendly) left'. We want to unite the maximum possible number of workers AGAINST BRITISH IMPERIALISM.
Our allies in this struggle are not the bought-off Labour and trade union bureaucrats (who must be swept away) but the masses of exploited people all over the world who are facing the same murderous exploiters and colonisers.
Imperialism gains much of its domestic strength by looting the resources of the whole world. Its machinery of wealth extraction and social control must be dismantled from both ends if we are ever to know liberty; if our children and grandchildren are going to have the chance to grow up in peace and dignity.
Whenever anyone talks to you about 'unity', always remember to ask: WITH WHOM and FOR WHAT? Otherwise you will find you have been tricked into keeping quiet about everything important in the interests of not upsetting some group of charlatans who are actually working for your class enemies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZHY_JfOPw0
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Forget about uniting the left
Workers Party deputy leader Joti Brar explains to delegates at Resist Fest how its not the self-identifying ‘left’ that we need to unite, but the genuine forces for socialism.
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Forwarded from The Communists
Minister Zhao Fei from the Chinese Embassy addresses the CPGB-ML’s October Revolution celebrations in Southall tonight. Other speakers and guests tonight include the Cuban ambassador Ismara Vargas Walter and representatives from the Russian, Laotian, and Venezuelan embassies, fraternal party JVP from Sri Lanka, and comrades Vikki and Ranjeet from the CPGB-ML.
Standing room only in Saklatvala Hall!
Standing room only in Saklatvala Hall!
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Forwarded from Joti Brar
https://youtube.com/shorts/A83dHYvJ7F0?si=-QIowIdQwWZoHmnp
Anna Louise Strong’s work remains essential reading for those who want to know the reality of Soviet and Chinese socialism in the Stalin and Mao era. I especially recommend When Serfs Stood Up in Tibet and The Stalin Era.
Anna Louise Strong’s work remains essential reading for those who want to know the reality of Soviet and Chinese socialism in the Stalin and Mao era. I especially recommend When Serfs Stood Up in Tibet and The Stalin Era.
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Anna Louise Strong
An older video I made in collaboration with Esme Louisee of Kinky History in honor of Women's History Month! figured I should post it here. Miss Anna Louise ...
Forwarded from USSR Pictures
Formation of personnel of the 1st Guards Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment of the Black Sea Fleet. USSR, Sevastopol, 1944. Photo by Evgeny Khaldey
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Forwarded from USSR Pictures
Soviet officers in front of the Motherland Calls monument in Volgograd. USSR, 1970s
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Forwarded from USSR Pictures
Nikolai Bukharin, Alexei Rykov, Joseph Stalin, Sergo Ordzhonikidze, and Stanislav Kosior among a group of soldiers and workers (1927)
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Forwarded from Joti Brar
https://thecommunists.org/2025/11/24/leaflets/newark-leaflet-make-britain-great-for-workers/
The decline we are seeing in Newark is repeated across the rest of Britain’s former industrial heartlands, and it will not be reversed under conditions of capitalist imperialism. When we wake up and realise the con we have been subjected to, we must work together for a completely different type of society – one where people’s needs decide everything and the economy is organised rationally.
The decline we are seeing in Newark is repeated across the rest of Britain’s former industrial heartlands, and it will not be reversed under conditions of capitalist imperialism. When we wake up and realise the con we have been subjected to, we must work together for a completely different type of society – one where people’s needs decide everything and the economy is organised rationally.
When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
(Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven’s gate;
For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
- William Shakespeare
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Forwarded from The Middle Aged Revolutionary
One key principle that every Marxist must adhere to is that everything, no matter how complex, can be explained.
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Forwarded from MintPress News
Imran Khan's family is demanding "proof of life" and immediate access to him after weeks of being denied visits, which has fueled intense online rumours of his death in custody. Pakistani authorities and the government have officially denied the death rumours and insist he is alive and healthy.
Khan's family, including his son Kasim Khan and sisters, has been unable to contact him for over a month and a half, despite court orders allowing visits. They are demanding immediate, transparent access to verify his well-being.
Kasim Khan claims his father is being held in complete isolation in a "death cell" with no phone calls, no meetings, and no access to sunlight or ventilation.
The family and his party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), state the Pakistani government and its handlers will be held legally, morally, and internationally accountable for Khan's safety.
Khan's sister, Aleema Khan, has filed a contempt petition against jail officials for allegedly defying court orders on visitation rights.
Khan's family, including his son Kasim Khan and sisters, has been unable to contact him for over a month and a half, despite court orders allowing visits. They are demanding immediate, transparent access to verify his well-being.
Kasim Khan claims his father is being held in complete isolation in a "death cell" with no phone calls, no meetings, and no access to sunlight or ventilation.
The family and his party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), state the Pakistani government and its handlers will be held legally, morally, and internationally accountable for Khan's safety.
Khan's sister, Aleema Khan, has filed a contempt petition against jail officials for allegedly defying court orders on visitation rights.
Forwarded from Marwa Osman/MidEaStream
The camera did not just "document an incident" in Jenin today, it recorded a war crime in broad daylight: the cold-blooded execution of two unarmed Palestinian youths. And this is not an isolated case. The same camera has captured dozens of executions in Gaza.
According to @EuroMedH, the Israeli army has executed at least 7,000 unarmed Palestinians, including children holding white flags; children literally signalling surrender, yet still shot dead.
Let's be very clear: The Geneva Conventions explicitly prohibit the killing of anyone who is hors de combat: unarmed civilians, detainees, the wounded, surrendering individuals.
Article 3 of the Fourth Geneva Convention states:
No one in custody or under control of an occupying force may be executed.
No one may be murdered, tortured, or subjected to cruel treatment. Extra-judicial executions are a grave breach; a war crime.
What we are seeing is not "crossfire". It is Nazi-style street executions of people who should be protected by international law the moment they are captured, unarmed, or attempting to surrender.
International law is not ambiguous. It doesn't say "unless the victim is Palestinian". It doesn't say "unless Israel claims self-defense". It doesn't say "unless the world is too cowardly to enforce it".
The Israeli occupation army has systematically violated every core protection of wartime conduct; targeting civilians, executing detainees, killing those raising white flags, disappearing prisoners, and erasing entire families. These are grave breaches, punishable under international law, yet the world watches in silence.
If the Geneva Conventions are allowed to be shredded like this, then they mean nothing. And every government turning its head away is complicit in the normalization of war crimes.
Take a step back, take a deep breath and call it what it is:
A documented campaign of executions against unarmed Palestinians. A crime against humanity unfolding in real time.
According to @EuroMedH, the Israeli army has executed at least 7,000 unarmed Palestinians, including children holding white flags; children literally signalling surrender, yet still shot dead.
Let's be very clear: The Geneva Conventions explicitly prohibit the killing of anyone who is hors de combat: unarmed civilians, detainees, the wounded, surrendering individuals.
Article 3 of the Fourth Geneva Convention states:
No one in custody or under control of an occupying force may be executed.
No one may be murdered, tortured, or subjected to cruel treatment. Extra-judicial executions are a grave breach; a war crime.
What we are seeing is not "crossfire". It is Nazi-style street executions of people who should be protected by international law the moment they are captured, unarmed, or attempting to surrender.
International law is not ambiguous. It doesn't say "unless the victim is Palestinian". It doesn't say "unless Israel claims self-defense". It doesn't say "unless the world is too cowardly to enforce it".
The Israeli occupation army has systematically violated every core protection of wartime conduct; targeting civilians, executing detainees, killing those raising white flags, disappearing prisoners, and erasing entire families. These are grave breaches, punishable under international law, yet the world watches in silence.
If the Geneva Conventions are allowed to be shredded like this, then they mean nothing. And every government turning its head away is complicit in the normalization of war crimes.
Take a step back, take a deep breath and call it what it is:
A documented campaign of executions against unarmed Palestinians. A crime against humanity unfolding in real time.
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