Harpal Brar

Harpal Brar (born 5 October 1939) is an Indian-born communist politician, writer and businessman based in 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 (later merged into the renamed University of Westminster), 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(ing of) consumption in order to build the mighty Soviet state" and other Stalinist policies.