Joti Brar

The ‘Student List’ was organised by university professors with strong connections to the liberal imperialist NGO world. This enabled discredited political forces to rally popular support around the abstract figure of ‘the student’ and the ‘struggle against corruption’ without presenting a clear political programme that could address the fundamental class interests of working people. Their campaign was a striking manifestation of postmodern political confusion: anarchist methods of organisation, liberal demands and nationalist folklore coexisting within a single political formation. The group pretended to be seeking a meaningful alternative for workers, but in fact was simply creating a new vehicle for the same old pro-imperialist bourgeois politics and economics. https://thecommunists.org/2026/11/09/news/serbia-workers-no-reason-to-celebrate-change-government/

From the archive: Unlike Trotsky and his modern-day followers, Lenin did not play at revolution, and was not at all interested in heroic failures. He understood that what was at stake was nothing less than the future of humanity, and he taught the working class how to think and act so it could win. Correct theoretical understanding was what enabled the Bolsheviks to see their way clearly and navigate the turbulent waters of the class struggle. It was the combination of correct theory with disciplined organisational practice that created an unstoppable force for change in the Russian empire a century ago. This is the true legacy of Comrade Lenin, and it is one which continues to reverberate throughout the world. Our party’s interest in October is not merely academic or historical; we are not professors, fans or armchair ‘experts’ on October, but modern-day revolutionaries, working to repeat the feat of the Bolsheviks a hundred years on and therefore doing everything we can to learn what October has to teach us. We have, after all, set ourselves the same task as the Bolsheviks did: namely, of applying Marxist-Leninist science to present-day problems of organisation, strategy and tactics in order that we might help the British working class to gather the forces it needs to emancipate itself from capitalist slavery. The October Revolution marked the beginning of the era in which imperialism will be replaced by socialism; it shaped our world and put the ruling class on notice that capitalism’s days are numbered. No matter what reverses the socialist movement has suffered, the future of humanity is a communist future, which will be arrived at through defeating capitalism and establishing socialism (the lower stage of communism) all over the world. https://thecommunists.org/2017/10/01/news/history/october-1917-defining-event-of-our-epoch/

The authors of the book themselves complain that ‘financial titans have collective resources in the range of $16tn – more than the GDP of most of the world’s nations – and they resolutely use those resources to compel governments to deliver policies that facilitate the continual growth of their wealth’. There’s no more to be said. That is exactly why your thesis is dead in the water. Setting out to get billionaires to pay taxes is like trying to catch birds by the Simple Simon method of pouring salt on their tails! Since the idea of wealth redistribution (via socialism or via social-democratic reforms) became a major and achievable goal for the world’s masses, there has been a steady proliferation of tax havens and accounting instruments. These enable the financier ruling elites to escape the declaration and taxation of their wealth, whose true scale is thus becoming ever more obscured. https://thecommunists.org/2026/11/01/news/culture/book-review-cancelling-billionaires/

Three years, 37 national demonstrations and millions of protesters. Britain’s working class has demonstrated its opposition to genocide. But while the bourgeois media works to conceal the strength of that opposition, the question remains: how do we turn the energy that has fuelled three years of protests into effective action to stop the war machine? https://thecommunists.org/2026/11/07/news/millions-march-for-palestine-war-machine-marches-on/

Zionist lobbying groups, which constitute an important (arms-length) wing of the British state machine, are, with the help of mainstream media, whipping up a storm of protest aimed at intimidating the Green party’s leaders and elected representatives into renouncing the party’s recent conference decision and finding a process by which it can be overturned. We suggest all supporters of Palestine should send this letter of support to the Green party councillors who supported the recent motion ‘Zionism is racism’, and who are now facing huge backlash from Britain’s political and media establishment. https://thecommunists.org/2026/11/04/news/green-party-councillors-cant-be-antiracist-and-zionist/

Formal conscription may not yet be in place, but material compulsion is growing. A young person faced with unemployment, benefit sanctions, high rent, student debt and no secure prospect is not making a free choice when the armed forces appear as one of the few routes to wages, training, housing – in sort, to survival. And, of course, the young people primarily impacted are those from the most deprived backgrounds. https://thecommunists.org/2026/11/01/news/youth-unemployment-neets-to-recruits/

From the November Lalkar: The first school protest was the spark that lit a prairie fire, bringing to light the great discontent that had been growing amongst France’s most deprived pupils and their underpaid and overworked teachers. Social media suddenly filled with videos of rats scuttling through corridors, broken toilets, holes in walls and mouldy ceilings in schools across the country. Students have also complained of unbearable heat in the summer and freezing classrooms in winter. Of long school hours, chronic staff shortages, overcrowded classes and a deeply biased university admissions system. https://thecommunists.org/2026/11/01/news/france-in-flames-young-people-refuse-sacrificed-neoliberalism/

*Deep Dive Perspective New Release:The Engineered Return of Fascism* https://youtu.be/87sNlgSy02o?is=uygfiT-kLnsN5vA8 Fascism Is Imperialism: How the Ruling Class Uses Controlled Opposition | Joti Brar & Ehsan Safarnejad *Like share comment subscribe to support our channel please ✊🏽🙌🏻* Is fascism just the far-right — or a tool of imperialism? Joti Brar & Ehsan Safarnejad argue the ruling class uses controlled opposition to protect the war machine. In this Deep Dive Perspective episode conversation, host Mohsin speaks with Joti Brar, Chair of the Communist Party of Great Britain, and analyst Ehsan Safarnejad. They contend, in their view, that fascism cannot be separated from imperialism, that far-right parties and parts of the left/anti-war movement function as controlled opposition, and that dehumanization and scapegoating of immigrants distract from economic failure. They call for broad anti-imperialist coalitions and mass non-cooperation. All contested characterizations are the guests' opinions and analysis as stated in the transcript.

My contributions on the Iran war panel at the Beautiful Days Rebel Tent have been compiled into one video. Particularly useful is the section on the source of the zionist lobby's power.

❗️International dockworkers launch historic global strike across 100 ports to blockade arms shipments Dockworkers spanning more than 100 strategic ports across Europe, West Asia, and North Africa initiated a mass international strike and day of mobilization to halt arms transfers. Organized by a coalition of over 25 maritime labor unions in 22 countries—including primary labor syndicates in France, Italy, Greece, Spain, Turkiye, and Morocco—the coordinated action targets key maritime infrastructure to block the movement of weapons, ammunition, and military cargo. The strike action has halted or severely disrupted logistics operations across major European and Mediterranean transit hubs, including Marseille, Le Havre, Genoa, Trieste, and Piraeus. In a joint declaration released by participating unions, including France’s CGT ports federation, Italy’s Unione Sindacale di Base (USB), and Greece’s ENEDEP, labor leaders condemned the conversion of commercial ports into hubs for imperialist war machine logistics. ENEDEP President Markos Bekris declared during demonstrations at the Port of Piraeus: "Ports must not be used for the transport of weapons, ammunition, military equipment and troops. Dockworkers do not work for war!" Endorsed by 17 Palestinian trade unions and the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, the historic mobilization marks an unprecedented labor blockade aimed at choking off military supply lines. With over 90 percent of Israeli international trade and military procurement moving by sea, union organizers emphasized that organized labor is taking direct action to enforce international law and humanitarian embargoes where western governments have actively refused to halt the arming of Israel.

From the archive. In this August 2024 episode of their regular series, Joti Brar spoke with Garland Nixon about the 2024 failed regime-change attempt in Venezuela. About how the imperialist-aligned mass media insisted on blaming the Nicolás Maduro government for economic problems that were actually the result of strangulating economic sanctions and corporate sabotage, and how the poor masses remained loyal to the revolution despite all the difficulties they faced as a result of taking the path of independence and sovereignty. They also talked about the hypocritical and decadent spectacle presented to the world by the 2024 Paris Olympics, and the utter hypocrisy of the self-appointed ‘leaders of world sport’. The Olympic organising committee, which repeated imperialist media lies to the effect that Russia and Belarus are criminal states and must not be allowed to participate, at the same time raised no objection at all to participation by Israel. And this despite the fact that the zionist state was daily drenching itself in the blood of Palestinian civilians, torturing and eradicating them en masse in what even the UN’s court had pronounced to be a genocide. Finally, they talked about how anti-imperialist military cooperation is developing in many corners of the world, as the Russian Federation of today increasingly leans into and revives the great fraternal traditions of solidarity from its Soviet past. The signs of defeat and decay in Israel and Ukraine are proliferating daily, and the death of these parasitic, fascistic societies, both colonies of and proxies for western finance capital, is in stark contrast to the increasingly confident cohesion of global opposition to the dying rule of parasitic imperialism. These conversations remain useful because they apply a Marxist lens to the discussion of topical events, remaining relevant even after specifics have changed. https://thecommunists.org/2026/10/29/tv/joti-brar-garland-nixon-venezuela-lies-paris-olympic-decadence-19/

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Polish president and ‘historian’ Karol Nawrocki is the latest in a line of bourgeois puppets to try and ban the Polish Communist party. Before him, former justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro gave it a go – but was unable to finish the job after fleeing the country‘s prosecutors and eventually settling in the USA. In many countries this is a disturbing antidemocratic trend employed by consecutive governments that has taken hold across central and eastern Europe since the 1990s, especially as they seek closer integration with the EU and Nato. Without pushback it can only lead to the deepening of reactionary currents in European society. When will we rediscover a pan-European solidarity, learn to defend the achievements of the socialist people’s republics more strongly, and reclaim our shared European heritage? https://thecommunists.org/2026/10/28/news/letter-whatever-happened-communist-solidarity-europe/

Sick Chirpse recently reported that Ryan Ferguson, the racist little reactionary dwarf, was refused fuel at a petrol station in Liverpool. The staff member reportedly told him: "I know who you are and I know what you stand for." An act of defiance as simple as this demonstrates something far more powerful than two groups shouting at each other across the street. It demonstrates the power of class consciousness in practice. Reactionaries like Ferguson thrive on attention and division. Their purpose is to turn workers against one another, directing the anger of the working class towards immigrants and minorities rather than the capitalist class responsible for the destruction of their material conditions. They rely on publicity, intimidation and the illusion that they represent ordinary working people. But they are powerless without the very working class they seek to divide. We should refuse to normalise their politics, legitimise their propaganda or allow those reactionaries any oxygen within our communities. The strength of the working class lies not simply in its numbers, but in its organisation, solidarity and understanding of its own class interests. A conscious and organised working class has no need for these reactionaries, but the capitalist system has every reason to employ these hateful figures to sow division in our communities. When workers recognise their collective power and learn to use it, no amount of reactionary propaganda can substitute for the material strength of an organised class.

It is a constantly recurring theme in capitalist business that the ‘founding principles’ of a brand will be used to grow market share, but will inevitably be thrown away once a loyal consumer base has been established and further expansion requires cost-cutting measures for maximum profitability. Similarly, it is one thing for a ‘fringe’ party in the bourgeois system to adopt positions and procedures that will appeal to its prospective members, but quite another for it to sustain them as the party grows and starts to become a serious candidate for taking political office. https://thecommunists.org/2026/10/27/news/green-party-zionism-racism-now-what/

This single sentence from the Times is an object lesson in imperialist propaganda and doublespeak: “RAF Typhoons based in Qatar will fly defensive missions over Saudi skies to protect cities and critical national infrastructure from Houthi rebels backed by Iran.” 1. What are RAF planes doing on a Qatari base? Why is this first statement presented without question or explanation? 2. How can the pilots fly ‘defensively’ in this situation? It was the Saudis (and their Anglo-American backers) who started the war with Yemen a decade ago, and the Saudis who restarted that war earlier this year. Since Saudi Arabia is the aggressive party, every support for its war effort is a crime against humanity; it is participation in an unjustifiable war of aggression. 3. If Saudi Arabia wants to protect its critical national infrastructure, it need only stop attacking the sovereignty and critical national infrastructure of its neighbours in Yemen, and stop trying to starve the Yemeni people into submission to the imperialist diktat. 4. The force opposing the west-backed Saudi criminals is not a religious or tribal group (‘the Houthis’) but a coalition national government based in the liberated capital of Sanaa. 5. The Yemeni people‘s anti-imperialist national-liberation movement is in alliance with all regional forces facing the same foe; it is not the creation or proxy of Iran as this construction implies. All the sins of bourgeois ‘journalism’ are on display here: both the sins of commission and the sins of omission; it is the art of bourgeois disinformation writ large. To paraphrase Edgar Allan Poe: “Believe in none of what you read and only half of what you see.” https://www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/article/raf-jets-to-protect-saudi-arabias-skies-from-houthi-rebels-cb2gfwqmc