Danish Slaughterhouse Workers Go on Strike: No to wage cuts! The slaughterhouse-workers in Denmark are faced with wage-reductions in spite of the big profits of Danish Crown (the company)!Fight against all the employers’ demands for wage reductions through the extension of the strike!NNF (food and allied workers’ union) must support the strike and open up the strike funds! The LO (Danish TUC) must call for solidarity action if no concessions are given!---
Danish slaughterhouse workers on strike The bosses proposed wage cuts, speed ups and longer hours in exchange for not closing the plant. The union leaders called off the strike action, but the workers have overwhelmingly voted to reject the deal with the bosses. Denmark cannot escape the growing mood of militancy spreading throughout the European labour movement.
Denmark: Massive student protests against cutbacks In Denmark, after the big student conference of September 22, the scene was set for a big day of action on October 5, the opening day of the Danish parliament. The day of action was indeed an overwhelming success, with around 100,000 students participating.
Denmark: Big conference of pupils, students and apprentices Last Wednesday, September 22, became an historic day for the Danish student movement. Nearly 2500 young people from almost all types of educational institutions and from all over the country gathered in the KB hall to start the “STOP-NOW”-initiative, which has been called by most of the traditional student organizations. They gathered because the government, in spite of the obvious bad state of the education system, continues to carry through cutbacks.
Pupils, students and apprentices fight back – The struggle against cut-backs must be intensified! This editorial statement was distributed as a pamphlet in hundreds of copies at the recent student conference in Copenhagen on Wednesday, September 22.
Denmark: Conference of Shop Stewards in Odense. Words must be transformed into action! On the 28th of August, 700 Danish shop stewards gathered in Odense to discuss the alternative to the present bourgeois government. Bo Frederiksen reports from the conference.
The labour movement must transform words into action: Throw out the bourgeois government! The bourgeois government can be removed, if: The protest actions are united and extended The workers' parties unite under a socialist programme The trade union movement acts as the vanguard in the struggle for a workers' government The youth are mobilized to defend welfare.
Denmark: thousands of students take to the streets against cuts in education On September 10 thousands of Danish students took to the streets to demonstrate against the education policies of the conservative government, which is reducing the quality of education. The national secondary school students’ union (DGS), had called for a one-day strike against the cuts in secondary school education.
Class struggle in the Arctic: Greenland in turmoil Greenland is not renowned for its warm climate. Indeed, to the outside world it is generally regarded as a cold, ice-covered and isolated landmass, inhabited by a supposedly happy people who get on with their fishing and live in a beautiful environment. But recently things have been heating up in the country. We are referring to the class struggle, that is. The unskilled workers were recently on strike, a strike which ended with a victory for the workers. And now the nurses may be about to take the same road. This shows that the general crisis of world capitalism reaches every corner of the globe and the workers everywhere are reacting in a similar fashion, with a fightback against the...
"The burden of the pensioners" in Denmark - a sign of the senile decay of capitalism All over Europe national governments have plans to severely cut back on the pension systems. Denmark is no exception to this. There is a lot of talk in the media about this. The politicians are constantly harping on about the fact that "reform is necessary". But what they mean by "reform" is actually the opposite of what anyone would understand from this word. Instead of "reform", what they mean is "counter-reform", i.e. cuts.
May Day in Copenhagen (Denmark): The struggle continues despite the leaders of the workers' movement In spite of the rain and the "routine" speeches of many of the speakers what emerged from the May Day rally in Copenhagen was a mood of apprehension among the workers. They are worried about their future.
On the anti war protests in Denmark The Danish right wing two party coalition government and the Danish People's Party (an extreme right wing party that supports the government from outside), have decided that Denmark should participate in the US led attack on Iraq. Denmark has sent a submarine and a warship - an extremely modest contribution - but the point is that they want to show that "we support our most important ally", as the prime minister has said. This decision was taken in parliament with a very small majority, while all the other parties, except for the two in government and the Danish People's Party, voted against.
Nyrup resigns as chairman of Danish Social Democracy - but that's not enough! After a period of internal unrest in the Danish Social Democracy, this Tuesday, November 19, party leader and former prime minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen decided to resign from his position as chairman of the party. After the big defeat in the elections last year the leadership has desperately tried to "renew" the party, and at the same time various members of the leadership have tried to manoeuvre in order to advance themselves in the organisation. In the last period several leading Social Democrats have anonymously demanded that Nyrup should resign, and now he has decided, that "it will do no good to the Social Democracy to continue the present discussion about the leadership". Now...
"A better Denmark"? - mobilise workers and youth for socialist change! When the new Danish government coalition of Liberals and Conservatives (with the backing of the right wing Danish People's Party) came to power last November, their slogan was "time for change". But since then increasing numbers of workers and youth have come to realise that this was only change for something worse. The last year in Denmark has seen growing protests against the cuts and broken promises of the government. At the same time this has highlighted the crisis in the leadership of the workers' movement because neither the unions nor the workers' parties have been willing to really give a lead to the protests.
May Day 2002 Report from Denmark The day before the May Day was the day when the result of the vote on the new wage agreement for public sector workers was announced. There had been negotiations for a long time, but the result of the negotiations was very bad, so the leaders of the unions feared that the members would vote No and in this way start a strike. The top leaders had presented the result as the best possible one, and they said that it was impossible to get a better one through strikes. But the dissatisfaction with the result was very big, and in some unions the leaders were forced by the members to recommend a No vote. The result included a 5.55% pay rise over three years, but then there is inflation, and...
