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Communist spells out policy to compete in next year's mayoral election

November 26, 2015 11:29
Spread the word: Jonathan Silberman, campaigning for a working-class government, meets refugees at Calais

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Rosa Doherty,

Rosa Doherty

2 min read

You probably haven't heard of Jonathan Silberman, the 63-year-old factory worker who has signed up to compete in next year's mayoral election on behalf of the Communist League.

But the candidate for the left-wing party is under no illusion about his chances of winning. "I am completely realistic," he says.

Mr Silberman is the second Jewish candidate in the race, after Conservative candidate Zac Goldsmith, and says "fighting Jew-hatred" is at the front of his campaign, which he describes as "a working-class campaign. I happen to think that fighting the rise of Jew-hatred is an important part of any working-class campaign today.

"I think the source of the rise of Jew hatred is down to slow-burning, capitalist oppression, and such is the nature of a capitalist society that, when it meets a crisis like it is in now, Jews will always be a target."

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