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