Speaking at the launch of Socialist Alliance candidate Jim McIlroy´s
campaign for the federal seat of Griffith, held by ALP leader Kevin
Rudd, veteran socialist and university lecturer Gary MacLennan called
for the continuation of the struggle for socialist ideas. The BBQ
launch, held in Orleigh Park, West End, on October 21, attracted more
than 40 people, and preceded an afternoon of letterboxing of the local
area for the SA campaign.
Today in the Labor Party, there is “not one socialist idea,” MacLennan
told the audience. “The ALP is just an echo of the Liberal Party,” he
added. With the Socialist Alliance campaign, we want to “prove to
everyone that there is an alternative. We must remind everyone that
there is another way.”
The problem in Australia right now is that, “We don’t des ire enough. We
should desire a better world.” We urgently need to build a socialist
alternative to the Liberal-Labor conservative consensus, MacLennan said.
He strongly endorsed the candidacy of Jim McIlroy, as a longstanding
friend and socialist activist. “In the struggle, Jim will always be
with you,” MacLennan said.
McIlroy addressed the audience, urging people to actively participate
in the Socialist Alliance campaign in Griffith, as well as in the
neighbouring seat of Brisbane, just across the river, where SA is
running Resistance leader Ewan Saunders. He also called for support for
the SA Senate team of Sam Watson and Amelia Taylor.
Referring to the article on his campaign in the previous day’s Brisbane
Courier-Mail, McIlroy said this was already a significant win to gain
some prominent coverage for the socialist alternative in the mainstream
media. “We need to defeat the Howard government,” McIlroy said, “but we
also need to use the Socialist Alliance campaign to raise the banner of
the socialist alternative, and put pressure on Kevin Rudd and the Labor
leaders over their me-too policies.”
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