The Community Party is a pan-European communist organisation. Community Party Branches adhere to a centre-left platform focusing on fiscal responsibility, social-model policies and pan-European cooperation.
The CP is opposed to the exploitation of people by capital and demands the protection of citizens from economic mismanagement. In the founding philosophy of the party, Deborah Noblet writes:
Amongst the privileged class, that is the property owners, shareowners and business owners, an opinion exists that one’s own welfare is their own individual concern. Their mind senses that any single person has the power to become rich, propertied and therefore empowered and less of a burden... The philosophy of the privileged class is a selfish and bullying idea that treads on the unfortunate and weak, whilst destroying the very fabric of our society by destroying the mutuality that is the community. As Communists, we object to the philosophy of the privileged class and strive to create a society that protects the weak, helps the unfortunate and limits the power of those that would seek to exploit them. Our philosophy is that of the Community.
Though accepting that Communists are still active throughout Europe, the CP takes are far less confrontational stance toward capital, especially small business and self-employed persons. That combined with the hardline intention to nationalise financial institutions strikes a balance in favour of workers, middle-class, and the large "underclass" common in Western European societies.
The CP has no members elected to any political office and is not registered with any Electoral Commission. A fundamental ideal of the party is the rejection of all fascist and racist viewpoints.
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“Populism is folkish, patriotism is not. One can be a patriot and a cosmopolitan. But a populist is inevitably a nationalist of sorts. Patriotism, too, is less racist than is populism. A patriot will not exclude a person of another nationality from the community where they have lived side by side and whom he has known for many years, but a populist will always remain suspicious of someone who does not seem to belong to his tribe.”
—John Lukacs (b. 1924)
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—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)