Statement of the Workers' Communist Party of Denmark (APK), March 21, 2003
Two out of three Danes are against Danish war participation. Denmark’s
biggest corporation, A.P. Moeller, is for the war. It is making money
on both blood and oil. The government is for A.P. Moeller. A.P. Moeller
is for the
US. The government is for the US. Denmark is in war under US command.
Is it that simple? Maybe not that simple, but it is an important part of the
truth about Danish military participation in the war on Iraq – a shameful
chapter in Danish history and a disgraceful decision against which not one
single MP of the war parties voted. Paint can be washed off – blood cannot!
(referring to the action on March 18 made by two young peace activists who
threw red paint at the Danish Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, symbolizing
their
bloody
hands, translator's note).
In these hours and days, tens of thousands of Iraqis are being killed by the
US terror bombing, which according to the mass murderer Rumsfeld “surpass
everything that has been seen before in history”. Later, other tens or
hundreds of thousands will die from the consequences of the war, especially
the weakest people, the Iraqi children, who are already weakened.
Denmark is participating in an aggression contrary to international law, and
will later participate in the occupation of Iraq and take part in sharing the
loot (disguised as “humanitarian help” and “reconstruction”).
Having joy at seeing that there is a big opposition to the war in the national parliament, it is worth remembering that just until the UN Security Council ended in a dead end, the Social Liberals, the Christian People’s Party, the Social Democrats and the top of the Danish Confederation of Trade Unions were ready to send Denmark in war with a mandate from the UN Security Council that was bought and blackmailed by the US. These parties will continue that political line. If there will be made a horse trading deal in the UN Security Council about the “reconstruction” of Iraq, that is, about sharing the loot after the war, they will be ready to make Denmark a part of an illegal occupation after an illegal war. They will call this the “restoration of the broad agreement on Danish foreign policy”.
In the course of few months, an anti-war movement not seen hitherto has been
developing in Denmark and in the world. It has said and is saying no to aggression – with
or without mandate from the UN Security Council. The US, the UK, Australia,
Denmark and the US satellite state, South Korea, (the Coalition of the Willing)
have nothing to do in Iraq or in the Middle East. They have no right to install
an US puppet regime that will give its big oil companies cheap Iraqi oil. They
have no right to occupy the country. The US will not stop with Iraq. The next
war will be against Iran, North Korea or anybody who Bush thinks is in the
way for US world hegemony and reckless plunder.
Bush is the biggest terrorist and threat against peace in the world. And Denmark
is under US command.
The Danish and global anti-war movement is saying:
Stop the criminal aggression against Iraq!
Immediate stop for the war!
Complete US and allied withdrawal from Iraq and the region!
Stop Danish war participation!
Support the struggling Iraqi people!
Fight imperialism!
The Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Workers' Communist Party of
Denmark (APK)