Sunday Morning Marxist Forum
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Speaker: Harpal Brar
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Modern war is a product of imperialism and cannot be eliminated without destroying imperialism. The most important thing is the policy that the parties that led to that war were pursuing and will pursue after the end of the war. We are not opposed to all wars. There are just and unjust wars. We support just wars like the war against imperialism by the oppressed nations, the wars of the bourgeoisie against feudalism, the wars of the proletariat against the bourgeoisie and the wars of socialist countries against imperialist countries. Revisionist distortions on the question of war and the role of opportunism will be discussed in the context of the ongoing wars in the Middle East and in Ukraine.
Harpal Brar was a founding member of Communist Party of Great Britain Marxist-Leninist, known by its acronym: CPGB-ML. CPGB-ML was formed in 2004, after some of its members split from Socialist Labor Party, which itself was a party that split from the Labor Party (UK). The CPGB-ML opposes Trotskyism, social democracy, democratic socialism and all forms of revisionism. In 1995, Harpal Brar published a book titled “Social Democracy: ‘The Enemy Within’.”
CPGB-ML opposes opportunism in the working-class movement and works for the establishment of socialism in Britain. At the eighth congress of the CPGB-ML in September 2018, Brar announced that he would step down as chairman of the party, to be replaced by Ella Rule.
He has written a number of books and articles:
- Socialism with Chinese Characteristics (2020) � Latest
- Perestroika: The Complete Collapse of Revisionism (1992)
- Revisionism and the Demise of the USSR
- Trotskyism or Leninism? (1993)
- Social Democracy: The Enemy Within (1995)
- NATO’s Predatory War Against Yugoslavia
- Imperialism and War
- Imperialism � the Eve of the Social Revolution of the Proletariat
- Chimurenga! The Liberation Struggle in Zimbabwe
- Imperialism � Decadent, Parasitic, Moribund Capitalism
- Bourgeois Nationalism or Proletarian Internationalism?
- The 1926 British General Strike
- Inquilab Zindabad, India’s Liberation Struggle (2014)