Harpal Brar

Who is Harpal Brar?

Harpal Brar is an Indian-born communist politician, writer and businessman based in Britain, who is the Chairman of the Communist Party of Great Britain.

Born in Muktsar, Punjab, British India, Brar has lived and worked in Britain since 1962, first as a student, then as a lecturer in law at Harrow College of Higher Education, and later in the textile business. He is noted for his anti-revisionist positions describing the Soviet project of collectivisation and industrialisation under Joseph Stalin as the working class's willing "forgo consumption in order to build the mighty Soviet state."

Brar owns numerous residential properties in West London and part-owns a company in Kashmir.