Joti Brar
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Scientific socialist. Chairwoman of the Communists (CPGB-ML) in Britain. Spokesperson for the World Anti-imperialist Platform. 'Anyone who fears being covered with dust or muddying his boots, should not engage in social activity.’ – N Chernyshevsky
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The Cockroach movement has emerged from a stratum of young people that Indian capitalism has educated and then rendered surplus.
Official statistics show unemployment among graduates aged 15 to 29 at 29.1 percent – nine times higher than for those unable to read or write.
For educated young people, the labour market increasingly resembles a lottery with a huge entry fee, and the competition for gainful employment has fuelled an exam coaching industry, with poor families selling assets and mortgaging land to meet the fees.
A leaked question paper is therefore not simply an administrative inconvenience; it can destroy an entire family’s plans and render its sacrifices meaningless.
https://thecommunists.org/2026/09/01/news/indias-cockroach-revolt-spontaneous-anger-class-struggle/
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| 3 |  Early British capitalism and its fear of organised workers.
The Combination Acts of 1799 and 1800 made it illegal for workers to “combine” (early roots of workers unions) to raise wages, reduce hours, or improve their working conditions. Essentially, the capitalist class criminalised trade unions before they properly existed. Left to be trialed by local magistrates, who mostly were industry owners or landlords, could convict and jail workers for collective bargaining. The mere whiff of workers organisation alone was enough for local magistrates to reach for the gavel.
These acts were introduced during the wars with revolutionary France, at a time when the British ruling class feared unrest at home. The French Revolution had made “Jacobinism” shorthand for subversion. At the same time, early industrial capitalism was expanding and this new class of proletariat were beginning to organise strikes and mutual trade societies. For the state, industrial combination and political radicalism were treated as the same threat.
The Acts were significant because they helped stabilise British capitalism in its formative industrial phase. The factory system depended on a disciplined, wage-dependent workforce, the proletariat. Profits came from the subjugation of the workers, on keeping wages down and production uninterrupted. By criminalising collective bargaining and streamlining prosecutions through employer-aligned magistrates, the state ensured that labour remained fragmented while capital could organise freely. With the English revolution giving this other new class, the bourgeoisie, the ability to create laws that secured the conditions necessary for capital accumulation.
A Repeal came in 1824 after sustained pressure, but a strike wave followed and the capitalists reimposed restrictions in 1825, limiting picketing and collective pressure while offering the concession of the ability to unionise to the workers, it was tightly managed. The objective was not freedom of association; it was containment and control. Allowing the workers the belief they had a say, then imprisonment when they did.
From a class perspective, the Combination Acts expose the class character of the state in early British capitalism. The state did not stand above society as a neutral arbiter. It intervened directly to defend property relations and suppress the growing class consciousness within the proletariat.
The issue was not abstract “public order” but control of labour in a system built on exploitation.
The Class Consciousness Project | 334 |
| 4 |  August 30, 2021: The last US forces leave Kabul, ending an almost 20 years US imperialist/NATO occupation of Afghanistan.
The longest war in modern US history, twice the length of the direct US intervention in Vietnam, was a prolonged quagmire that bedeviled four American presidential administrations. 2,400 US troops were killed during the occupation of the country, nearly 500 British troops, at least 50,000 Afghan proxy forces of NATO. Tens of thousands of Afghan civilians were killed by NATO bombings.
2.3 trillion dollars were spent on the war by the US government in total.
The corrupt and illegitimate US backed puppet regime in Afghanistan fell to the Taliban within weeks of the US/NATO withdrawal. | 360 |
| 5 | From the September Lalkar by Comrade Harpal Brar:
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/2026/09/01/news/history/stalins-library-by-geoffrey-roberts-a-resume-and-review-pt10/ | 448 |
| 6 |  🎤 Conversation - Western left’s ‘politics of purity’ ultimately reinforces the very imperialism it claims to oppose: Legal historian
The Western left’s “politics of purity” can ultimately reinforce the very imperialism it claims to oppose, says a legal analyst, while rejecting the recent open letter published by The Guardian.
@PressTV | 352 |
| 7 | Confirmation (if such were needed) that culture wars and tribalising the working class are a priority for the ruling class as its system spirals ever deeper into crisis and war.
Social media algorithms and polarisation are playing a key role in that strategy.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/aug/24/rupert-lowe-restore-britain-earn-same-on-x-as-being-mp-elon-musk | 431 |
| 8 | While media headlines proclaim government intent to levy higher taxes on the highest earners, the state simultaneously provides those same people with exit doors – out of sight of the working class and ignored by the mainstream media – through which they can escape the ‘burden’ being imposed upon them.
https://thecommunists.org/2026/09/01/news/andy-burnham-wealth-tax-experiment/ | 416 |
| 9 | 🇺🇸🏴☠️⚔️🇮🇷 New York Times: “The US Navy faces a serious logistical problem in the Middle East.”
“Approximately 20 ships carrying around 20,000 sailors and Marines require more than 420,000 meals and about eight million gallons of fuel every week.”
“The situation has worsened significantly after Iran destroyed a major Navy logistics base in Bahrain and made other nearby ports too dangerous to use.”
“Supply ships must travel approximately 2,200 miles to reach Diego Garcia, or even further to reach Singapore, before returning to the fleet.”
@stayfreeworld | 414 |
| 10 | This is important. The US navy didn't just suddenly become rubbish at catering. Iran has inflicted a serious blow against US military logistics and now the naval vessels have great difficulty in providing adequate supplies of food, toiletries etc to their soldiers.
As Napoleon memorably put it: 'An army fights on its stomach.'
Meanwhile, Stalin noted in February 1942, five “permanently operating factors” that would determine the outcome of the war now that the advantage that Germany had gained from their surprise attack had passed: first, stability of the rear; second, morale of the army; third, number and quality of divisions; fourth, armaments; and fifth, organisational ability of the army leaders.
(Quoted in Harpal Brar's review of Stalin's Library) | 489 |
| 11 |  —❗️🇸🇦/🇾🇪 BREAKING: Ansarallah (the Houthis) have initiated a large scale offensive into the Al-Khokha and Al-Mokha directions, controlled by Saudi-backed PLC fighters in western Yemen
@Middle_East_Spectator | 306 |
| 12 |  An important discussion for all the western leftists confused about what is happening in Venezuela and wondering whether they are failing as revolutionaries if they don't jump on the bandwagon of 'denouncing' Delcy Rodriguez and her government.
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“Rodríguez-Espinoza closed by combining both positions: international allies may understandably be confused as events move rapidly, just as Venezuelan Chavistas themselves confront uncertainty.
“Confusion, however, does not justify destructive social-media attacks stripped of context. Solidarity activists should examine what they have failed to do in their own countries to restrain imperialism – and direct their pressure there.”
Quite. | 425 |
| 13 |  Iran claims full restoration of missile production facilities previously targeted by US strikes. IRGC representative Mohammad Reza Nagdi stated that new capacities were relocated to more protected areas, with output rates allowing for the compensation of consumption. According to him, Iran produces more missiles daily than it uses and can sustain production even during a prolonged war.
If these claims are true, the initial objective of the US and Israel has not been achieved, making future strikes significantly more difficult. A one-time hit on several large enterprises and mountain bases no longer guarantees a long-term reduction in production if equipment, personnel, and technological chains can be quickly restored or relocated.
@Slavyangrad | 354 |
| 14 |  Minju Joson : In the port city of Haeju, in South Hwanghae Province, the country's largest solar power plant has been built and serves as an energy source for local industrial plants.
South Hwanghae Province has many plains and, due to the lack of hydroelectric power plants, suffered from a shortage of electricity; this is why this nationwide initiative was undertaken.
More than 10,000 double-sided solar panels also incorporate sunlight reflected from the ground for energy production.
A solar boom has swept through the South Hwanghae province since the construction of this power plant. In July, provincial authorities organized visits to companies that had introduced integrated solar charge inverters to support the initiative. Already, many households are solving their electricity problems independently, without relying on the national power grid. | 360 |
| 15 | Join us and hundreds of others at the launch of the British Chapter of the Anti-Fascist International.
This new united front movement is inspired by the principles of revolutionary internationalism.
It aims to help unite and promote the struggle of progressive humanity, to help workers organise themselves to preserve life and save their class and our planet from the impending threat of world war and the rising tide of fascism.
https://thecommunists.org/2026/09/03/news/from-gaza-to-britain-imperialist-war-fight-against-fascism/ | 397 |
| 16 | The thing I really enjoyed about this conversation with two anti-imperialist activists, @danielmkovalik from the USA and Tadhg Hickey from Ireland, was the revolutionary optimism both activists exude.
They refuse to bow down, refuse to be silenced, and continue to promote the understanding that real power lies with the masses, and that the imperialists are shooting themselves in the foot as they intensify their war drive and ramp up repressive measures.
And, of course, that, ultimately, they both agree that the problem is the SYSTEM of global capitalism (imperialism), which needs to be dismantled for our problems to be finally solved.
Great to see such a conversation being given airtime by the producers at the @DeepDivePerspective. Honest and actually useful journalism that is missing from the mainstream.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjseELSurYQ | 446 |
| 17 |  September 1, 1919: the Communist Party of the United States of America is formed in Chicago, after delegates of the Socialist Party of America split away during their convention and formed their separate organization. Inspired by the Russian Revolution and opposed to the right wing of the Socialist Party’s support for World War I, the new Communist stood for struggling for socialism via industrial trade union action.
At the height of its influence in the late 1930’s the CPUSA had 80-100,000 members and led trade unions whose membership exceeded 1.7 million members. In the 1950’s the repression of McCarthyism reduced the party to a shadow of its former self, and today it’s a pitiful, irrelevant appendage of the Democratic Party. It remains the largest and most influential Marxist party in United States history. | 345 |
| 18 | This article by our absconded comrade Alex correctly exposes the SNP as regional managers of British finance capital. Its proposed “independence” would retain the Crown, sterling, Nato with a return of EU dominance and private ownership of Scotland’s resources.
Then after exposing bourgeois Scottish nationalism, the article attempts to rescue it by placing the working class at its forefront, but bourgeois nationalism is still bourgeois nationalism.
Scotland is not, and was not, an oppressed colony of England. Scottish and English capitalism grew in tandum. They are historically fused into British capitalism, producing an integrated British ruling class and a historical British proletariat. The exploitation endured by workers in Glasgow is no more national oppression than the what was inflicted upon workers in Liverpool, Newcastle or the Welsh valleys.
The use of Connolly is therefore wrong. Ireland was colonised and oppressed. Scotland’s ruling class was an active partner in building British capitalism and its empire. Maclean’s belief that Scottish separation could become a revolutionary blow against imperialism must also be judged against present material conditions, not treated as a fortified idea. That's Trot like belief without a considered strategy considering current material conditions.
The call for a separate Scottish Communist Party represents the national partition of the British proletariat. It would divide workers that are confronting the same ruling class while finance capital, Nato and monopoly ownership remain unaffected and united above them.
As the CPGB-ML correctly resolved, an “independent” Scotland “would divide and weaken the British working class without dividing or weakening the capitalist ruling class.”
The answer to the SNP’s opportunistic "nationalism" is not a confused revolutionary version of the same division. The answer is one vanguard party leading all the workers of Britain against their common enemy of imperialism.
https://melsm25.substack.com/p/dead-on-arrival-swinneys-referendum?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5bblw5 | 343 |
| 19 |  Register now to secure your place at the founding conference of the Anti-Fascist International in Britain.
This Saturday 5 September, 1.00pm
Bolivar Hall
Grafton Way
W1T 5DL
https://thecommunists.org/events/launch-british-chapter-antifascist-international
Speakers include:
• Craig Murray
• David Miller
• Chris Williamson
• Massoud Shadjareh
• Joti Brar
• Ranjeet Brar
... and more | 358 |
| 20 | In this video presentation, our industrial secretary Jason Turvey examines the industrial revolution and the transformative effect it had on Britain and the British working class.
The working-class struggles of the period are also examined, including the Merthyr Rising, Tolpuddle Martyrs and Chartism.
Jason then looks at the formation of trade unions, including the first craft unions, the foundation of the TUC and the manner in which trade unions are constituted.
Finally, he explains to communists how they can take the party line into the trade union movement and talk to working-class activists about contemporary issues from a Marxist-Leninist perspective.
https://thecommunists.org/2026/09/02/tv/jason-turvey-what-are-trade-unions/ | 402 |
