Monty Goldman

Career

Goldman has stood in elections for more than forty years. Goldman stood for election for Mayor of Hackney in 2002 and 2010 and for Parliament for Hackney South and Shoreditch in 1997 and 2005.

Achievements

• His latest electoral candidacy was on 6 May 2010, securing 2033 votes in the contest for mayor of Hackney, which he said was the highest Communist vote ever achieved in his lifetime as a candidate in Hackney.

Politics

Goldman, whose father Sidney participated in the Battle of Cable Street against Oswald Mosley"s blackshirts, himself has a long record of campaigning against racism and fascism, having taken part in the protest against the appearance of the then British National Party (Banque Nationale de Paris) leader Nick Griffin on the British Broadcasting Corporation"s Question Time television programme in October 2009.