Kumar Sarkar
Kumar Sarkar works closely with the New Communist Party of Britain.
Solidarity with Syria
New Worker supporters and members of the Arab community in London heard two stirring calls to stand by Syria at a New Worker public meeting May 2012. Prof Kamal Majid, the vice-president of the Stop the War Coalition and New Communist Party of Britain leader Andy Brooks spoke in detail about the moves of US-led imperialism and their Arab agents to overthrow the Assad government.
The meeting was chaired by Theo Russell from the NCP London District, which has sponsored a number of New Worker public meetings in central London over the past year or so.
Prof Majid, a communist who writes on current affairs in the Arab media, covered the efforts of the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda to spread terror and sectarian division across Syria as part of the imperialist plan to replace the Syrian government with a puppet state, à la Libya, that would do the bidding of the Americans and Zionists.
Andy Brooks reported on the stand taken by the major trends within Syria’s communist movements in support of genuine reform but opposed to all attempts to tear up the new constitution. Both broadly agreed on the need to build solidarity with Syria’s progressive and democratic forces that have closed ranks around the Arab Socialist Renaissance Party (Baath) to end the violence and defend the gains of the Syrian national revolution.
Kumar Sarkar, from Second Wave Publications, took the floor to raise the issue of the balance of forces in Syria and the class issues at stake in the current turmoil. Both main speakers said this would take hours to cover but, in fact, the questions were easy to answer.[1]
Revolutionary movement in India and Nepal
New Worker supporters discussed the problems facing the revolutionary movement in India and Nepal June 2011 at a New Communist Party of Britain London District meeting at the Fitzrovia Centre in central London. The discussion was opened by Kumar Sarkar, from the Second Wave solidarity movement, who has recently returned from Nepal and West Bengal.
NCP founding celebration
Comrades and friends joined New Communist Party of Britain leader Andy Brooks and Party Chair Alex Kempshall in celebrating the NCP's founding day reception July 2007 at the Party Centre in London.
The New Communist Party of Britain was established in July 1977 and since then the Party has worked to build the communist movement and working class unity while upholding the tenets of Marxism-Leninism. But this work cannot be done alone. This was a point made b Andy Brooks and this was a theme echoed by friends old and new during the formal part of the proceedings.
Michael Chant from the RCPB (ML) spoke of the consistent and principled co-operation between our two parties that began in 1994 and continues with greater depth today.
Kumar Sarkar from the South Asia Forum raised the problems of the communist movement in India and Nepal and Andrei from Polish Labour Party youth movement talked about the current struggle in Poland. Congratulatory messages were also received from Dermot Hudson of the UK Korean Friendship Association and Anton Johnson of the London Left Front Art group.[2]
South Asia meeting
Comrades and friends gathered in the Marchmont Community Centre in north London September to discuss the complex struggles taking place now in South Asia at a New Worker meeting, organised by the New Communist Party of Britain London District and chaired by Neil Harris.
Speakers included Pakistani trade union and civil rights activist and campaigner against bonded labour Mukhtar Rana, north London Labour Councillor and Third World Solidarity representative Mushtaq Lasharie, Kumar Sarkar from the British South Asia Solidarity Forum, Theo Russell from the New Communist Party of Britain and Suresh from the Nepali Samaj Society.[3]