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Posted by: John Phoenix Harpal Singh Brar died at 10.10am Indian time (4.40am UK time) on 25 January 2025, at 85 years of age. He was at the home of his nephew Manpreet Singh Badal, in Chandigarh, India. His close comrade and leader of the CPGB-ML Ella Rule, as well as his daughter Joti, and sons Ranjeet and Carlos were with him. He leaves us bowed in grief. But we are grateful to have been part of his deeply meaningful life and work. Truly we can say that he shed light on our path. And that the struggle to which he dedicated his life will continue. Harpal was cremated the same evening, in his ancestral village and the place of his birth, Fattanwala, near the town of Muktsar, in the state of Punjab. The entire village and many people from surrounding villages and towns atten...

By: Ranjeet Brar  Thanks so much to all my friends and comrades for your kind and moving words at this difficult time. Forgive me if I don’t answer you all individually now. Yesterday Ella, Joti, Carlos and I were with Harpal when he passed away peacefully at the home of our cousin - his nephew, Manpreet. He did not suffer any pain, and he was surrounded by love and comradeship. We attended his cremation the same evening in his home village - Fattanwala, Punjab. The whole village and many people from surrounding towns attended. And we met many members of Harpal’s Punjabi family and contacts from his original life. It is hard to think of him as a horse-riding, crop-raising Punjabi farmer. But those were his roots. Before he journeyed to the metropolis, became a law lecturer, m...

Posted by: John Phoenix We reproduce an article published in Lalkar in 1986 in order to enlighten our readers about the history of the various Trotskyite counter-revolutionary outfits, some of whom have changed their names, the latest incarnation being the so-called Revolutionary Communist Party, which is being promoted by the ruling circles in opposition to the CPGB-ML. With news of the expulsion from the Labour Party of members of the so-called Militant Tendency on an almost regular basis, it is timely to look at just what the history of Trotskyism has been in Britain since 1932.  It was then that Reg Groves was expelled from the Communist Party of Great Britain and went off to form the ‘Balham Group’, Britain’s first Trotskyist organisation. After about five years...