By Dorte Grenaa, Chairman of the Workers' Communist Party of Denmark (APK)
Leaflet of the APK distributed at the anti-war demonstration "No War on Iraq!" on February 15, 2003, in Copenhagen, Denmark.
A move has happened; many more people are starting to act in order to participate in stopping the war. The anxiety and the opposition to the war have been present all along, but now they have mixed with psychological repression and the feeling of powerlessness. Now people are taking a stand, talking loudly about it with each other on the street, in the schools, where the youth are starting anti-war committees, in trade union general meetings, where anti-war statements are beginning to be adopted. Creative ideas, will and action are fusing; spontaneous actions, small and large demonstrations, are taking place.
We are living in dark days, in which Bush, Powell, Blair and Fogh Rasmussen
are trampling around in order to unleash that big war, which they have been
preparing, and which so few people believe will stop with Iraq. There is a widespread
feeling of that something must be done: This nightmare must be stopped!
But it brings optimism and good prospects for the future to see the energy and
dynamic - the undercurrent - that is making its way in the new anti-war movement.
The big international anti-war protest days have their own special importance; to know that we are together with people all over the world, that we are together in sharing the responsibility for preventing a catastrophic development with the New World Order of the US and imperialism. February 15 is the biggest ever: A whole world against the war and the warmakers!
We as Danes have a special responsibility for our own country, and what it commits in the world. We have seen that Fogh Rasmussen and Co. have joined the international war party headed by the US and Bush, who will unleash a criminal war that clearly violates international law.
Danish war participation is a Danish war crime, also if the US succeeds in forcing through a war resolution in the UN Security Council. We must prevent it. We must hold Fogh Rasmussen and Co. responsible. Already today, Danish soldiers and F-16 planes are participating in the occupation of Afghanistan, and under US command they are dropping bombs killing civilians, too.
Bush and Blair want war, a war for obtaining control of the Iraqi oil and controlling and redistributing the Middle East. If the war breaks out, it will terrify the world. The Pentagon has been preparing a bombing nightmare from the first day. Hundreds of thousands of people will die, and we will see cruise missiles and bombs in a scale not seen hitherto and with an explosive force of the first days that exceeds the atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
If the war breaks out, we will continue the resistance - and make it stronger! We call on students to leave their classes, to protest and make actions. We call on the workers to show their resistance in action. We support making blockades and actions against everybody who is supporting the war, not at least the merchants of death, companies like A.P. Moeller that spins gold from both blood and oil. We call on the men and women who are sent to war to refuse to go. If the war becomes a reality, then let us defeat the warmakers, the enemies of peace!
The war can still be stopped!
Let us stop the lunacy!
February 15, 2003