Joti Brar

01/09/2026

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

Launch: Antifascist International – an anti-imperialist antiwar movement in Britain After a year of preparation the British Chapter of the Antifascist International is launching on Saturday 5 September in Bolivar Hall, London. It is clear that the British government, whatever political party is at...

28/08/2026

This week I spoke with Garland Nixon about the upcoming launch of a new antiwar organisation in Britain, one that has genuinely anti-imperialist politics at its core.

The British Chapter of the Anti-Fascist International will be launching in Bolivar Hall, central London on Saturday 5 September at 1.00pm. Speakers at the event include me, Craig Murray, Chris Williamson, David Miller, Dr Ranjeet Brar and more.

In my discussion with Garland we looked at the obscenity of allowing the party that runs the wars on behalf of British imperialism to also control and direct the ‘antiwar’ movement. This is at the heart of the abject and repeated failure of Stop the War in Britain and similar ‘official’ antiwar organisations in other imperialist countries to do anything to meaningfully impede the war machine, never mind to actually stop a single war.

Indeed, our ‘antiwar’ luminaries regularly and repeatedly stoke warmongering propaganda narratives against Russia, China, Iran and the DPRK, the cornerstones of world anti-imperialist resistance and the primary targets in the sights of the US/British/Nato war machine.

No wonder Iranian comrades in Britain have concluded that “There is no antiwar movement in this country.”

You can register to attend the Anti-Fascist International launch meeting or just to indicate your interest in getting involved as soon as membership is launched at the AFI website.

This is a broad and much-needed initiative. Please join us!

https://antifascistinternational.uk/

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04/07/2026

Free Alexander Mostov (pictured), Darya Kadkina and all the kidnapped Youth Platform delegates!

Turkish authorities have detained Russian activists from the DPRK Solidarity Group in Istanbul.

Police raided a youth camp organised by the World Anti-Imperialist Platform in the suburbs of Istanbul, detaining a total of 20 activists, including two Russian citizens – Alexander Mostov and Darya Kadkina – who are activists with the International Solidarity Group with the DPRK (ISG-DPRK).

According to the Platform, police raided the youth camp at 3.00am on 1 July and subsequently detained 20 people – including members of international delegations and Turkish activists – around 8.00am. They are currently being held at the Çanakkale police station.

According to the Solidarity Group, the detainees have been charged with "promoting terrorism", an offence that could carry a penalty of up to five years in prison.

The ISG-DPRK is in contact with all relevant parties and has also submitted a formal appeal to the Russian Consulate in Istanbul.

04/07/2026

https://wapnews.org/?p=13181

At around 3:00 a.m. on July 1, Turkish authorities under the Erdoğan administration raided the venue of the World Anti-Imperialist Platform youth camp and forcibly detained more than 20 people, including members of the Platform’s international delegation and youth activists from Türkiye. Accordi...

04/07/2026

* NEWS UPDATE *

We have heard that our Yugoslav comrade Miloš Karavezić has been taken to the prosecutor’s office in Istanbul. The court hearing will be held tonight.

Please put any pressure you can on the Turkish embassies of your countries. Let them know that we are watching and awaiting the release and return of our comrades!

Opposing the war drive is not a crime!

02/07/2026

FREEDOM FOR COMRADE MILOŠ KARAVEZIĆ!

The First Secretary of the League of the Communist Youth of Yugoslavia SKOJ (the youth organisation of the New Communist Party of Yugoslavia), comrade Miloš Karavezić, was arrested near Istanbul at approximately 3.00am on 1 July during an internal anti-Nato conference.

Erdogan's authorities raided the camp of the World Anti-Imperialist Platform, where youth organisations were gathered. At around 8.00am, they violently and unlawfully detained approximately twenty people, including members of the international delegation and Turkish youth activists, among them the First Secretary of SKOJ, Comrade Miloš Karavezić.

All those detained are currently being held at the police station in Çanakkale, where they face accusations of alleged terrorist activities.

This is part of an organised campaign of preventive arrests carried out under the pretext of protecting national security.

From midnight on 28 June until midnight on 10 July, all public gatherings, demonstrations, street marches, press conferences, leaflet distribution and the display of banners have been banned in Ankara and in the areas surrounding Nato military bases. The main access routes to the airport, the area surrounding the summit venue, and the zones where the delegations are accommodated have been placed under the complete control of the military and police.

The actions of the Turkish authorities are contrary to the Constitution of the Republic of Türkiye, which guarantees freedom of thought and academic freedom. They are likewise in violation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, ratified by Türkiye in 2003, which guarantees freedom of thought and freedom of expression.

SKOJ and New Communist Party of Yugoslavia (NKPJ) will inform the World Anti-Imperialist Platform, Sovintern, the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY), the international communist movement, as well as other progressive organizations and individuals around the world, in order to build international pressure for the immediate release of Comrade Miloš Karavezić and all other detained activists.
Comrade Miloš Karavezić is a principled patriot, internationalist, and political activist who has never been convicted of any crime or violated the law.

His detention clearly demonstrates the political nature of this repression and the character of a regime that, under the pretext of combating terrorism, criminalises political opinion and international solidarity.

SKOJ demands that Erdogan's government immediately and unconditionally release Comrade Miloš Karavezić and all other conference participants.

We strongly condemn the violent, unlawful and brutal arrest of the participants during the raid on an event that was internal, peaceful, and organised in accordance with its intended purpose.

This action by the Turkish authorities once again reveals the dictatorial nature of Erdogan's regime, which no longer tolerates even internal political discussion and criticism of the Nato alliance. SKOJ and NKPJ will mobilise progressive forces in Serbia and around the world to secure the release of Comrade Miloš Karavezić and all other activists who are unjustly imprisoned by the Turkish authorities.

Freedom for Comrade Miloš Karavezić!

Secretariat of NKPJ
Secretariat of SKOJ

Belgrade, 2 July 2026

02/07/2026

The CPGB-ML joins all progressive and anti-imperialist workers in condemning the brutal kidnapping of young comrades who were attending a youth camp organised by the World Anti-imperialist Platform in Istanbul.

This action comes as imperialist leaders prepare to convene the annual Nato conference in Ankara next week (7-8 July).

The Turkish regime is attempting to stamp out all forms of local and international antiwar activity ahead of the upcoming Nato summit in Ankara.

02/07/2026

By Prof Chris Gilbert

If compassion drives the Venezuelan government’s and the Latin American peoples’ response, the same cannot be said of US imperialism, for which concern for humanity has been displaced by the motives of profit, expropriation and domination, and which has so often sought to turn the misfortune of others to its own advantage.

The day following the earthquake, secretary of state Marco Rubio coolly announced that the Department of War, Southcom, and the marines would be central to the USA’s “aid” effort.

We have seen this playbook before. Following Haiti’s devastating 2010 earthquake, the barely disguised Trojan horse of US ‘humanitarian assistance’ arrived in the form of an aircraft carrier and some 20,000 troops on the ground.

The consequences of that de facto occupation in the Haitian case included an obvious loss of sovereignty, documented cases of sexual assault and exploitation, and the cholera epidemic brought by the occupying forces.

In the face of imperialism’s designs, the voice of the Venezuelan revolutionary people is united around three demands: the USA must lift the sanctions completely, unfreeze all Venezuelan assets, and return President Maduro and Cilia Flores to Venezuela.

If these steps are not taken, the US presence looks quite a bit like a simple military occupation – an integral part of the recolonising ambitions expressed by Donald Trump’s Maga imperialism, with its grotesque revival of the Monroe Doctrine.

https://thecommunists.org/2026/07/02/news/imperialism-induced-fault-lines-the-venezuelan-earthquake/

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Those who are willing and able to make donations to the Venezuelan people’s earthquake relief efforts can do so here:

https://venezuelanoestasola.com/

While this disaster has exposed the country’s vulnerabilities, it also revealed where its real strength lies: in its deep-rooted social and institutional transformations.

29/06/2026

A British surgeon prosecuted, suspended and arrested – not for malpractice, but for criticising Israel.

Mohsin Abbas of Deep Dive Perspective hosts Dr Ranjeet Brar and Ryan Dawson in a programme which exposes how the IHRA definition is being weaponised to criminalise anti-zionist and anti-imperialist dissent.

How is it that a surgeon with an unblemished record of excellence and service can be arrested and hauled before multiple professional tribunals and branded a ‘racist’ ... for opposing Israeli racism and genocide?

26/06/2026

British workers must resist our government’s repeated use of economic weapons against sovereign peoples.

They are a form of vicious collective punishment whose purpose is to create maximum suffering and death in aid of western regime-change efforts.

Britain must give back the gold it has stolen from Venezuela and cease all forms of economic warfare that will hamper efforts to rebuild and recover from this natural disaster.