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The Street Protest and the Danish EU Presidency

From Kommunistisk Politik, No. 12, June 8, 2002

From July 1 there will be plenty of opportunity to protest imperialist globalisation, the terror war, and the plans for developing the EU into a new imperialist superpower.
Ministerial meetings, meetings with heads of state from other continents, and the big highlight, the EU summit in December, will succeed each other very rapidly.
Particularly, three scheduled meetings attract attention internationally. Beforehand, the anti-globalisation movement has announced its participation at the so-called ASEM summit in September between the heads of state of the EU member countries and ten Asian heads of state. In November, the Russian terror warrior in Chechnya, Vladimir Putin, will arrive in Denmark and so will the protests against his visit. And then, in December, as the last big event, the concluding summit of the Danish EU Presidency will be held.
For a long time, the police and intelligence, with renewed government grants of millions of DKr., have been preparing a hot welcome for the tens of thousands of foreign demonstrators. Special cells and extraordinary lockups have been made. Searches and tightened identity control are being prepared. Casualty departments and medical staffs are training, and new weapons are being tested. Political tourists shall feel as little welcome as asylum seekers do after the passing of Pia Kjaersgaard's (national leader of the far-right Danish People's Party, translator's note) immigration law.
Official Denmark willingly participates in globalisation, but does not want to see globalising people.
At the same time, the police are carrying out a special media campaign propagating that violent demonstrations are being prepared. Especially, the youth movement, Global Roots, that wants to demonstrate by the use of civil disobedience in best non-violent Gandhi style, has been boosted as potential violent criminals and terrorist sympathizers. That is a deliberate lie.
There is only one participant in the summit, who is preparing violent actions: the state power apparatus. This is a fact. All the Danish political forces that are preparing demonstrations are in complete agreement that the actions are and should be non-violent, festive, colourful, delightful, serious, and have mass character.
The APK is working for the maximum display of the popular movements as the peace movement, the anti-globalisation movement and the anti-EU movement during the EU summit and the other events. That is the agenda of the street: the political protest which the police are preparing to drown in nonsense about violence and regular violence.