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ALEX RUBINSTEIN—At the breakout session, Ngodup Tsering said that Chinese President Xi Jinping is attempting to “assimilate or eliminate” Tibetan culture and that the Chinese Communist Party has killed 1.2 million Tibetans through starvation and torture. 

“More than 6,000 monasteries were destroyed, and monks were disrobed and nuns were raped,” he said, later explaining that “the elimination of Tibetan as a race perhaps has been the main objective for a long time of the Chinese Communist Party.”

He railed against China’s ethnic unity law enacted last year, according to Chinese media to promote the idea that “Tibet has been an inalienable part of China since ancient times, and it is the common responsibility for the people of all ethnic groups to safeguard national reunification, strengthen ethnic unity and take a clear-cut stand against separatism.”

JIMMY DORE and guests take to task AOC and her fellow “squad members” for completely failing to deliver on their express and implicit promises, while wasting people’s time with empty promises and “performative” exhibitions designed to merely polish their brand.

MOHAMMED MARANDI—The objective of the Quds Force was to create mutual understanding and to encourage the more moderate factions within the fragmented Taliban to gain the upper hand. General Soleimani believed it was inevitable that foreign forces would at some point be forced to leave the country, and that following the country’s liberation, it was essential that Afghanistan wasn’t pushed by the withdrawing occupation forces into another devastating civil war.

DEE KNIGHT—Reports from first-hand delegations to Xinjiang, from countries and organizations including Egypt, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, Indonesia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Thailand, Malaysia, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, and even the World Bank, have testified that neither genocide nor slavery accurately describes the reality of Xinjiang. At two separate convenings of the UN Human Rights Council in 2019 and 2020, letters condemning Chinese conduct in Xinjiang were outvoted, 22-50 and 27-46—essentially the U.S. and its allies vs. non-aligned countries.

At 81, the great Harpal Brar, Indian-born but long a resident of Britain, communist party founder, and revolutionary theorist, is without a doubt one of the few remaining great Marxist-Leninist thinkers of the old school. In his political career, he has fought not just the capitalist enemy, but all forms of fake and theoretically erroneous leftism, from anarchism to social democracy and Trotskyism, along with communist revisionism (which undermined and eventually contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union from within). This chat with Harpal is simply to be prized. Brar’s work deserves attention and our gratitude. We are glad Caleb Maupin arranged to make this interview widely available to activists everywhere.