‘I am Elke’: the communist mayor who won Austria’s second-largest city with housing fixes

‘I am Elke’: the communist mayor who won Austria’s second-largest city with housing fixes

Every last Saturday of the month, a special event is held in Graz, organised by the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ). Its supporters gather in their Volkshaus, or people’s house, to bake Neapolitan pizza. It also has a telling name – pizza comunista. They hand it out for free. The project also has a deeper dimension. It is just one of the activities through which the communists show that they are close to ordinary people. The KPÖ’s win in Graz i…