the name Proletarian, which is the title of the bi-monthly newspaper of the CPBG-ML. The party was registered "to prepare for standing in elections". At the eighth congress of the CPGB-ML in September 2018, Brar announced that he would step down as chairman of the party, to be replaced by Ella Rule. Views on China On 19 July 2008, Harpal Brar was one of the people who founded the Hands off China campaign, dedicated to defending the People's Republic of China and to defending "China's sovereignty and territorial integrity" and "the country's just stance on issues of its vital national interest such as Taiwan and Tibet." Views on India Brar heavily disagrees with the popular belief that the fight for Indian independence was a peaceful and pacifist movement, led entirely by Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian National Congress. He wrote a book on Indian history called Inquilab Zindabad: India's Liberation Struggle, in which he argues that the fight was a violent and bloody class struggle involving the masses, and accuses Gandhi and Congress (described as "the most compromising, cowardly and obscurantist representatives of the India bourgeoisie") of supporting British imperialism. Views on the Soviet Union Brar defends the governments and leaders of the USSR until the appearance of Khrushchevite revisionism during the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1956. Lalkar, the newspaper edited by Brar, criticises The British Road to Socialism (the programme of the original Communist Party of Great Britain) from its earliest version in 1951 as "un-Marxist" and regards the claim that Joseph Stalin approved it as a "fiction". Brar is seen as an admirer of Stalin and has been attacked as an "anachronism" in the Weekly Worker publication of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee), which Brar in turn regards as Trotskyite propaganda. He has chaired and is an active member of the Stalin Society, along with his daughter Joti Brar (deputy leader of the Workers Party of Britain). The Society denies Soviet wrongdoing in the Katyn massacre which they blame on the Nazis, the Soviet famine of 1932–33 which they blame on foreign sanctions, kulak sabotage and weather patterns, and the Moscow Trials which they describe as fair process. Publications For many years, he was on the executive of the Indian Workers Association (GB) and was the editor of that organisation's journal Lalkar. He continues to publish the