Socialists take on the Australian Protectionist Party party.

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"Sydney: Socialist candidates take on the racists"

http://www.greenleft.org.au/2010/832/42801

"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.""

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