Statement of the Workers' Communist Party of Denmark (APK), March 19, 2002
The Workers' Communist Party of Denmark (APK) holds that it is time for putting
action behind words, and the March 20 demonstration in Christiansborg Slotsplads
(the palace square outside the national parliament in Copenhagen, translator's
note) is a good start.
But the Fogh Rasmussen government is attacking the working population so furiously
that the objective must necessarily be to stop this rightist government.
The law on part-time employment (a law making it possible for employers to
force full-time employees on part-time, translator's note) must be stopped.
Employment of unemployed without collective rights must be stopped.
Competitive bidding and privatisation of the public sector must be stopped.
Immigrant and Danish workers must be treated equally.
Young people under the age of 30 must have the right to full unemployment benefit.
All people must have equal access to education and in-service training - no
user's pay.
The day-care institutions must have room for all children.
Investments in good, healthy schools for everybody must be made.
Investments in a good and secure working environment must be made.
The democratic rights must be preserved - the Terror Law must be withdrawn.
No investments in war and rearmament, but in the fulfilment of social needs.
The trade union movement must raise the struggle for the rights of the working
people.
This means that defending real wages and normal working hours must be on the
top of the agenda, and that the New Salary system (a salary system making a
worker's salary highly dependent of his individual functions, qualifications
and results, thereby playing off one worker against another and increasing the
wage gaps between skilled and unskilled workers and between men and women, translator's
note) must be abolished.
Denmark should neither directly nor indirectly participate in the US war against
terror.
An actively fighting peace movement is important in Denmark.
The Danish soldiers must leave Afghanistan.
Active protests against the Israeli settlements and war against the Palestinian
people must be made - Israel must be boycotted.
The whole situation makes it relevant to reassess the Danish membership of NATO,
an alliance that cannot claim to be a defence alliance.
Denmark must not be dragged along by American tow.
Stop the US terror war - No Danish war participation!
The construction of the EU State must be stopped - Denmark must leave the EU!
Under the Danish EU presidency no doubts should be left that we are many who
want that Denmark leave the EU. Last weekend, half a million people demonstrated
against the Europe of capital in Barcelona, Spain.
Next EU summit will be in Copenhagen!
The Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Workers' Communist Party of Denmark (APK)