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Vol. 81/No. 32 August 28, 2017
Australia: Communist League launches campaign, hall
Militant/Ron Poulsen
SYDNEY, Australia — “Our new campaign headquarters puts us more in the
heart of working-class districts of western Sydney. We’ve been
campaigning door to door in neighborhoods here and are getting a good
response,” said Joanne Kuniansky at the open house for the Communist
League hall in Granville, Aug. 12. The event also celebrated Kuniansky
getting on the ballot as Communist League candidate for
Canterbury-Bankstown council in the Sept. 9 local elections.
Kuniansky, right, and a supporter of the League went to a six-month-old
homeless encampment, complete with 24-hour kitchen, in the financial
heart of the city Aug. 10 to show solidarity. That night the state
government rushed through a law to enable cops to move the homeless
workers out of the area — and out of the public eye.
“The tent campsite highlighted the growing carnage and social crisis of
capitalism, for which neither the Liberal nor Labor parties have any
solutions,” the communist candidate said. “Explaining this crisis — and
how it poses the need to build a revolutionary working-class party like
the Communist League to lead our class to take political power — is the
heart of the discussions we have as we go door-knocking in workers’
neighborhoods,” she said.
— RON POULSEN
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