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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.
That is the point, you definitely can, and if we followed the rules the way you did, we’d be reporting every post made out of one of their pieces, that’s my point. We do not post anything with the assumption that we are uncritically endorsing everything that has ever been said by the source. And if we do so for some and not others, we give legitimacy to the ones we don’t try and ban from our discussions. If this is the intended way we follow these rules, I am much more uncomfortable with Al-Jazeera, Middle East eye, New York times and their ilk being seen as totally fair and productive to post articles from than whoever this small UK party member is.
Nazbols / patsocs pretend to be Marxist-Leninists and there are always some people around ML spaces who sympathise with them. There’s nobody here who thinks NYT present the correct Marxist-Leninist line.
If this was posted as “Inteview with Joti Brar the patsoc TERF” I wouldn’t report it, alas it’s posted as:
And Al-Jazeera pretends to be pro Palestine while they’re just a state propaganda mouthpiece who’s main goal is to get Sunni Muslims to believe everything they say about regimes that “Oppress the true faith”.
As much as I would like to see it, I don’t report posts from them that don’t add “Sectarian Reactionary News Media” added in the title. Because unlike the new york times, there are a lot of outlets who, due to their coverage of the genocide, have lulled many people into thinking they are upstanding and should be listened to. Another example for this is just recently we saw middle east spectator reveal themselves to be Anti-LGBT when they commented on Zohran Mamdani’s position on pride. Do we now ignore, report, and block every single thing they report on?
It’s not the fault of the user who posts it, neither does it break a rule. I take no issue with your discomfort at CPGB being reactionary, I believe so too.
However it is not against the rules (as they are currently, I do think they could be improved) to post something they say, as long as it is not directly endorsing the party or it’s reactionary views. I don’t see that here.