KPÖ Demands People's Kitchens for the City Before Vienna Election

To support their demands, the KPÖ positioned themselves with a pizza truck at Karlsplatz, right in the center of Vienna, despite heavy rain. At lunchtime, the location was moved to Meidling, and a stop at Yppenmarkt in Ottakring was planned for the late afternoon to distribute free pizza slices to the public.

KPÖ for Public Kitchens at Busy Locations in Vienna

This small tour is not designed by chance. According to KPÖ federal spokesperson Schweiger, these public kitchens should be established at busy locations in Vienna and offer socially tiered, affordable, freshly cooked meals made from regional products. How many of these canteens there should be needs to be worked out in the upcoming legislative period. For him, the proposal is not a utopia, as such public kitchens already exist in Copenhagen and several French cities.

KPÖ top candidate Urbanic lamented that the issue of food prices has recently disappeared from public discussion. The cheapest food items have increased by ten percent since last year. Therefore, she sees politics as being required to intervene accordingly. She envisions, for example, a price cap on staple foods.

KPÖ Alliance Partner LINKS Demands "Immediate Removal" of the Karl Lueger Monument

At the same time, LINKS, running together with the KPÖ in the Vienna election, demanded at a rally the immediate removal of the Karl Lueger monument in the first district and the renaming of the area to Johanna-Dohnal-Platz. Lueger was an anti-Semite, having called for the boycott of Jewish businesses and spread the "ritual murder legend" as well as "threats of violence and murder," said Heide Hammer, second on the list in Alsergrund. "After 99 years with this monument, the honoring of Lueger should now be history," Hammer affirmed.

Benjamin Traugott, the top candidate for LINKS in the first district, also supported this demand. The question arises as to whom "monuments in public spaces" should be dedicated, said Traugott. A call for redesigning the monument from 2023 would only provide for "contextualization," a new pedestal, and tilting the statue by 3.5 degrees. The city would spend half a million euros on this, while Vienna needs "progressive, feminist, and democratic places of remembrance." With LINKS in the city council, there is no place for anti-Semites, "and certainly not as giant bronze statues."

The square should be renamed Johanna-Dohnal-Platz after the removal. This is to commemorate the women's policy of the SPÖ politician who died in 2010. She placed "equal emphasis on changing reactionary laws as well as on practical measures," said Angelika Adensamer, spokesperson and second on the list for the city council election. "Awareness is important, and that includes street names," emphasized Adensamer. Sheri Avraham, a representative of LINKS in the Chamber of Labor, sees the monument as a sign of how "deeply rooted Nazi ideology still is." In Austria, monuments have already been removed, and this should be done again. "Art may and should provoke, but not cement reactionary myths," said Avraham. LINKS did not want to define specific design possibilities for the square upon request, as there are a multitude of drafts. However, if a Johanna-Dohnal statue were to be erected, it would "in any case be a hand's breadth taller than the current one," added Benjamin Traugott.

(APA/Red)

This article has been automatically translated, read the original article here.