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Britain’s communists prepare their biggest electoral campaign in generations
PAUL SIMON speaks to some of the 40-plus communist candidates about their policies, their campaigning methods and their reception from the public

“THAT we are fielding numbers of candidates unprecedented in recent decades is no accident.”

Robert Griffiths, general secretary of the Communist Party of Britain (CPB), believes that the number of seats being contested on May 6 is the direct result of the party being the only viable alternative to the increasing economic, environmental and social destruction that defines the capitalist system.

The party is actively campaigning in over 40 seats for the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Senedd, London Assembly and various English county and district elections.

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