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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/32470699

Today I’m talking to Joti Brar, one of the leaders of the Communist Party of Great Britain, the editor of the party’s publication, and the Spokesperson for the World Anti-Imerialist Platform.

Joti Brar of CPGB-ML is the daughter of the late Harpal Brar.

“Neutrality Studies” is some Swiss nonsense, but at least they’ll listen to communists and anti-imperialists.

What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power?

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[–] Red_Scare@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (15 children)

FYI I reported this post:

Rule 5: No right-deviationists. CPGB-ML is "socially conservative" and Joti herself is a Caleb Maupin collaborator (she went on his show to spew transphobic hatred).

(Edit) CPGB-ML expels members for "propagation of LGBT ideology":

Congress therefore resolves that the propagation of identity politics, including LGBT ideology, being reactionary and anti-working class and a harmful distraction and diversion from the class struggle of the proletariat for its social emancipation, is incompatible with membership of the party, rendering those involved in its promotion liable to expulsion.

https://thecommunists.org/2018/12/07/news/identity-politics-are-anti-marxian-and-a-harmful-diversion-from-the-class-struggle/

Examples of their reactionary rherotic:

LGBT ideology wants more than equal rights

But, to return to the question of the demands of the self-appointed LGBT activists. Unlike ordinary people who happen to be gay or transgender, they are not happy with simply being allowed to live their lives in peace and without discrimination; it is not just a question of men and women wanting to be accepted even though they’re different.

For the so-called activists, it is a question of going far further than that, to the point of absurdity. Transgender activists want us, for instance, to encourage little boys and little girls who prefer the lifestyle that society offers to people of the opposite sex to the one that accords to their own sex to actually physically mutilate themselves in order to achieve the appearance of a person of the other sex.

https://thecommunists.org/2019/04/20/news/why-gay-rights-is-not-a-class-issue/

The reactionary nightmare of ‘gender fluidity’

Are ‘sex’ and ‘gender’ synonyms? Well they are synonyms, but a certain group of academics in the seventies in the United States decided that they weren’t synonyms. They were going to use ‘gender’ in their own way; they were going to use ‘gender’ to mean the social construct of behaviour surrounding what was expected of the biological differentiation among human beings (men and women).

But biological differentiation between male and female is a real thing. It doesn’t just exist in humanity, it exists in many species throughout the natural world. Sexual reproduction is a natural biological process that has persisted in nature due to the diversity it engenders; it is a phenomenon encountered in the natural world.

Why deny the material reality of gender?

Why did it become a fashion to say there’s no such thing a male and female?

Who is pushing this ideology that there is no such thing as gender? That there is no such thing as sex? That it’s not real?

There is even a movement termed ‘ableism’ or ‘trans-ableism’. There exist people who say: “I look as if I’ve got two arms and two legs, but actually in reality, I feel like I was born disabled.”

https://thecommunists.org/2019/03/23/news/the-reactionary-nightmare-of-gender-fluidity/

‘Transgender rights’ are bourgeois ideology. The whole issue confounds reality. It is pure idealism because the reality is that we cannot choose our identity at will. It is an illusion, a mistake and a crime to teach people to think that they can choose like this, under capitalism.

https://thecommunists.org/2018/12/07/news/the-only-thing-that-unites-us-is-class/

They also voiced their opinion on JK Rowling:

The author’s brave stance in defence of reality must be defended, and her hysterical detractors exposed as the reactionary bullies they are.

https://thecommunists.org/2020/07/09/news/jk-rowling-stance-against-thought-police-trans-ideology-idpol-womens-rights/

And here's them openly promoting US patsocs:

Working-class antiwar rage sends US woke mafia into a head fit

Unlike other self-identifying (and self-neutering) antiwar movements (essentially middle-class ‘left’ rackets in hock to the Democratic party in the USA or the Labour party in Britain), the Rage movement might actually pose a real threat to the establishment.

https://thecommunists.org/2023/03/11/news/usa-working-class-antiwar-rage-woke-mafia-head-fit/

If you missed the whole RATWM thing, here's an explainer: https://www.blackagendareport.com/why-rage-against-war-machine-rally-antiwarsowhite

And lastly here's the YT video I referenced in the report: youtu.be/5v7bWFFLzUY?t=1666

Last time I looked into CPGB-ML was like 5 years ago, but I can see since then Caleb released plenty of interviews with both Joti and Harpal Brar (CPGB-ML chairman) so the collaboration is very official and not a singular lapse of judgement on Joti's part as some people tried arguing back then.

[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (12 children)

Everything you wrote about Joti Brar and CPGB-ML is true and it is important that people are aware of this, but i don't see how that is grounds for reporting this post.

I don't think the intention of the poster was promoting either the CPGB-ML nor Joti Brar. I haven't watched the video yet but from the title it doesn't seem like it's promoting those reactionary views which you mentioned but rather providing a geopolitical perspective on the Ukraine proxy war and the West's larger obsession with Russia.

In that sense I think it is acceptable so long as the poster adds a content warning that the speaker being platformed has reactionary views on LGBT issues. People share articles and videos from much more reactionary sources than the CPGB-ML. Or do you think that every military or geopolitical analysis that has ever been shared here has always been strictly by pro-LGBT communists?

[–] Red_Scare@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 6 hours ago (11 children)

No. You could as well promote any US patsoc when they stick to the “right topic”. Or any fascist for that matter, they always appropriate some correct leftists stances. Communist spaces shouldn’t platform them even when they parrot the correct line.

[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

As I said, I don't think the poster was intending to promote them in any way.

Neutrality Studies is not a communist outlet and i hope that everyone here is aware of that and approaches any content that they put out with an awareness of the possibility that their guests are going to be people with some reactionary views.

[–] Red_Scare@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 3 hours ago

There are many people speaking against russophobia and warmongering, we don't need to post the ones who also speak against "the gays".

When writing the effort post above I skimmed over that RATWM article again, and this stood out to me: "considering the people most impacted by US imperialism and imperialist war have been organizing against it long before these Mises people came along, why haven’t I seen most of these white Latte Leftists engaged in organizing with us? I mean, Black, queer, trans, disabled, Global South, African people will certainly all die should there be a nuclear war"

There are better voices to lift out of obscurity than Joti's.

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