Harpal Brar

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

Life

Brar has lived in Britain since 1962. Since 1979 he is the bimonthly political magazine " Lalkar ", a former member of the Indian Workers' Association of Great Britain, out. In summer 1996 he gave up his work as 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 Labour Party (SLP ) by Arthur Scargill. In March 2002, Brar presented in a reading tour in 16 different locations in Germany his book " Imperialism Today" before. In 2004 he was ruled out because of disagreements from the SLP. Together with other excluded SLP members he founded in July of the same year, the CPGB -ML, its president was elected. Brar publishes the bimonthly magazine of the party, " Proletarian ". In 2006 he traveled to the head of a party delegation to North Korea, where for talks with leaders of the ruling Communist Party of Labour.

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 finish - floor plans of the economic destruction of socialism in the USSR. In: Defeat analysis. The reasons for the victory of the counterrevolution in Europe. Reprint of the best offensive article, published by the Association for the promotion of democratic journalism V., Hannover, 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-021905-4.
• We must never forget what socialism has done for humanity. In: And turned to the future, published by the Association for the promotion of democratic journalism, Hannover, 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-029873-8.

Quotes

Brar

• "Whoever wants to understand the business and politics in the Middle East since the beginning of the 20th century, only need to spell a word and learn to pronounce as well as its meaning and scope of discretion. OIL "
• " Almost every day you told me on the radio, communism is dead Why on earth? It has also not constantly point out that Napoleon no longer alive. And why now? On the one hand, because imperialism has increased after the disappearance of the USSR and because of the chaotic state in which the working class is now in strength and on the other hand because of the weakness of imperialism, which, in the former socialist countries with growing problems and Iraq faced in Afghanistan, Palestine and Colombia with a growing national liberation movement sees. "

About Brar

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