From Kommunistisk Politik, No. 16, August 17, 2002
It is extremely positive that the Boycott Israel Campaign and the peace movement
in general have put the struggle against the Danish arms industry on the agenda
by arranging a caravan to the Terma arms factory in Lystrup near Aarhus on August
24.
Terma produces components for the F16 warplanes being used by Israel in its
illegal terror war against the Palestinian people, and the Danish government
has sanctioned this arms export although exporting weapons to belligerent countries
is contrary to Danish law. The caravan has become a national campaign; busses
will arrive to Lystrup from Odense as well as from Copenhagen where the Peace
Guard at Christiansborg (the national parliament, translator's note)
has made the necessary arrangements.
The Danish arms industry has unjustifiably been almost "completely forgotten"
for years. It is also more protected against public knowledge than the arms
industry in other EU countries. Now the government and A.P. Moeller (the biggest
Danish capitalist, translator's note) are working for a huge economic
rise in connection with the US "War against Terror", and this fact
makes continuous revelations of and struggle against the Danish merchants of
death more than appropriate.
It is the policy of the Danish government, the US and the EU to brand every
armed resistance, which the peoples are waging worldwide against imperialist
aggression and repressive lackey regimes, as "terrorism". One of the
hidden main objectives of the "War against Terror" is to crush the
armed struggle and the organizations waging it by military force.
This is one of the purposes of the "terror lists" of the US and the
EU. And now the terror war is seriously flaring up in Colombia, which has been
declared in a state of emergency by the reactionary US lackey Alvaro Uribe who
has the task of making the final showdown with the Revolutionary Armed Forces
of Colombia (FARC) that have been waging guerrilla war for more than three decades.
In the Philippines, Gloria Arroyo's US lackey government has decided to try
to terminate the armed struggle being waged by the New People's Army (NPA) under
the leadership of the Communist Party of the Philippines. According to Arroyo,
it is okay to be a communist, but taking up arms or supporting the armed struggle
is "terrorism". Both the NPA and the FARC are on the US list of "terrorist
organizations".
In the Philippines, as well as in Colombia, the US has demanded the final showdown,
and in both countries US military is deeply involved in the military operations.
That situation is identical with the situation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
where all the armed Palestinian resistance organizations are on the US and EU
list of terrorist organizations.
In connection with the ASEM summit in Copenhagen (in September, translator's
note), where heads of state of ten Asian countries will meet, the Philippine
Solidarity Committee, the Stop the "War against Terror" and other
organizations will make a demonstration in support of the struggles of the peoples
in Asia, and especially of the Philippine people. Arroyo is expected to come
to Copenhagen.
All these situations are giving rise to some friction. In its political platform,
the Stop the Violence Network, which is the organizer of a big demonstration
during the EU summit on December 12-13 in Copenhagen, unambiguously dissociates
itself from not only violence during the summit, but also from violence, or
armed resistance, in general.
This is the reason why the APK and many others cannot join the Stop the Violence
Network, and why work is being done to make it possible to express the solidarity
with the resistance and struggles of the peoples and the opposition to the "War
against Terror" during the summit.
It is an acute task to ensure that the terrorist "anti-terrorists"
do not scare the solidarity with the struggles of the peoples, including the
armed struggle.