Tobias Schweiger
Exactly. This would also allow us to enable people in different parts of the country to conduct office hours themselves — to give them the financial means to do so. This would be a significant change, with a direct impact on local people.
We’ve decided that our social fund should mainly exist to provide money to people in urgent need. Part of the money also goes to expanding and financing our solidarity projects. One such example is our free kitchens, an important project that supports food security.
The project has been quite successful and is being offered by more and more locals because it brings together people from various social groups. Neighbors, precarious students, and people living in poverty sit together and get to know one another, and a space emerges where people talk about what’s going on in their lives. It’s almost like a collectivized social office hour, but also a democratic space. Organizing these events is extremely cheap, but locals have limited budgets.
Our goal is to turn the party newspaper into a monthly, then a weekly, and finally a daily.
If we enter parliament, the considerable increase in our financial resources would open up new possibilities for action. Another potential outlet is our party newspaper, Argument, which we recently revived. Our goal is to turn it into a monthly paper, then a weekly, and finally a daily in order to essentially build a counter-public.
Another priority is political education. This can mean organizing seminars or hosting speakers who have something interesting to say — events that allow us to advance the party intellectually. Once we set up a party academy, we will have a serious structure for continuous intellectual networking and activity.
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Auteur: Tobias Schweiger
