Sydney: Socialist candidates take on the racists

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Pip Hinman and Rachel Evans. Photo by Peter Boyle.

Two Socialist Alliance candidates for the coming federal elections — Rachel Evans for Senate and Pip Hinman for Grayndler — announced they were running on March 25, under Newtown's iconic “I have a dream” mural.

Two Socialist Alliance candidates for the coming federal elections — Rachel Evans for Senate and Pip Hinman for Grayndler — announced they were running on March 25, under Newtown's iconic "I have a dream" mural.

They called for voters to reject the racist politics of the new Australian Protectionist Party, a far-right party that admires and imitates the British National Party and campaigns against "non-white" immigration. APP announced this month it would field a candidate in the Sydney electorate.

Evans, a leading activist in Community Action Against Homophobia, said the Socialist Alliance stood for a new society based on ecological sustainability, cooperation, solidarity, diversity and inclusiveness.

Hinman, an activist in the Stop the War Coalition, said: "Racist and far-right parties like the APP — and before that Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party — have been encouraged by the racist policies of Liberal-National Coalition governments."

"APP, like One Nation, pretends to be against the major parties but it is clear that its racist propaganda serves the interests of those who make trillions of dollars of profit from the unending wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. War and racism fuel and justify each other.

"Their racist poison helps profit-greedy companies exploit workers through the age-old tactic of divide and rule."

The Socialist Alliance will announce more candidates for the federal election over the next few weeks.

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