Nicholas Davies: ‘A Genuine Communist Programme’
The website of the Communist Party of Britain (CPB) proclaims that it is a revolutionary political organisation “coher[ing] around a genuine communist programme… Our goal is to overthrow capitalism and build a society free from the exploitation and oppression that characterise all class societies”.
The CPB is fielding 14 candidates across the UK in this election, the highest for 40 years. The aim, according to a press release issued by the party last week, is “to build a mass movement against austerity and war and to build the struggle for socialism. We will be bringing popular, socialist, revolutionary and anti-imperialist politics to as many working people and young people as possible in the weeks ahead.”
Nicholas Davies, the candidate in Hastings & Rye, is a former member of the Labour Party in Hastings. He collected 416 votes as Labour candidate in Conquest ward at the 2018 borough election. Two years on, he quit as a consequence of what he describes as “the accelerated purge of left-wing members under Starmer’s leadership” and, in particular, the suspension of Jeremy Corbyn.
As far as he is concerned, both main parties in this general election are “pro-capitalist, pro-privatisation, pro-war and trying to excuse the genocide being perpetrated by the Israeli Defence Force in Gaza”.
He says that “public transport, the Royal Mail and water and energy sectors should all be brought back into public ownership and democratic control”.
He is putting himself forward as a candidate to give local electors “a real choice, not the manufactured narrative sold by a complicit media telling us there is no alternative to neoliberalism, austerity, exploitation and perpetual war”, and he hopes to grow the membership of the CPB so as “to make a stronger challenge in future polls”.
It is fair to say that he is starting from a low base. Standing for the CPB in Braybrooke ward in the borough election of 2022, Davies gained just 22 votes.
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