Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 01:36:52 -0400 (EDT) From: malecki-AT-algonet.se (Robert Malecki) Subject: M-G: Uppdate Denmark and Germany! This report is written on 2 May 1998. In Denmark there were massive demonstrations in support of the strike now going in to its 6th day which has effectky shut down the country. There is overwhelming popular support for the strike on the streets.. The Social Democracy anf its bureaucratic trade union leadership are doing everything to try and sabotage the determination of the workers and their demands for more money, but foremost a 6th vacation week.. In speeches these reformist bureaucratic traitors time and again were whingning that we will do the best we can, but perhaps we can get one or two days more vacation and no more. Thus objectively selling out the workers before the negoiations even start! The workers appear to be determined at this point to stay out untill ALL their demands are met. And this is backed up by the fact that they already thew the first agreement back in the faces of the trade union bureaucrats who had already signed it..In fact there is much talk about making this strike a general strike in order to win there demands.. Naturally there are still many illusions in the workers that the Social democracy and trade union bureaucracy is on their side. And just doing there best. But the increasing militance and determination by the Danish workers after years of mass unemployment, downsizing and layoffs is a great fresh wind that is blowing and shaking the very foundations of Danish society.. But unless a leadership comes forward based on the poltics of Lenin and Trotsky which stops at nothing except a Danish October. Then all the determination and short time gains made by Danish workers can and will be taken back... Germany.. In the wake of the fascists electoral victory in state elections in Sachen Anhalt. The Nazi's are getting increasingly bolder and more provacative. In Liebzig they came out on the streets to demonstrate and the left mobilized over 4000 people to take on this provacation. The police intervened (against the left) counter demonstration and reports on the national TV here in Sweden are talking about "civil war" conditions in Liebzig! And the Nazi electoral victory in Germany is spilling over the International borders! In Sweden the Nazi mobilized over 500 brown shirted thugs and broke the police lines and were able to take over the streets of a small city here. Only after hours and strong cop reserves being brought in from the outside were the Nazi's stopped as they rampaged through the streets! Unfortunately the town where the Nazi's had prepared this provacation was a surprise to everybody (including the cops) and the left non-existent in order to mobilize against this Nazi scum..In fact the leader of the ex Euro-Communist now femnist left party was in Gothenburg giving 1st of May speeches about how anybody having any illusions that they are "Communists" any longerwill be quickly shown the door! This obviously means that the Euro-Communists are in Sweden facing a pre-emininent split as they move to step into the shoes of traditional Social Democracy which has been deserted for "new" social democracy. Last night on the national news a leader of the Social Democracy was shown in his speech to first of May meeting. He took up the recent electoral victory of the Nazi's and the threat they pose not only to immigrants but all workers. He pointed out that the Nazi's had only one real point on their program and agenda "all non Germans out" pointing out that this same atmosphere is beginning to be felt here in Sweden.. Saying that the "people" must now begin to react before it is to late" ..Natuarally "Communists" could not agree more! But the traditional Social Democracy unfortunatel plays a central responsibility for the growing Nazi threat both in Germant and here in Sweden. In a recent "radiotime" report I took up how the Social democracy fans the flames of anti-immigrant hysteria in Germany. And here in Sweden this has been exactly the same case. In fact it is the Social Democracy in power which has time and again tightened up the now draconian immigration laws.. Including trying to deport African children who came to Sweden when they were 11 and 12 years old alone! In fact it is the Social Democracy which wants to give lie detector tests to immigrants who have come here in the last ten years to see if they are telling the truth (!) about there backgrounds. And unemployment is over 70% percent amongst immigrants in this country connected to growing segregation into immigrant ghettoes in the cities.. Meanwhile the Nazi's getting wind in there sails foremost in Germany and france has now the Nazi's moving in Scandinavia with ever increasing provacations on the streets of this country.. And as I said in my earlier report on Germany this week.. The Nazis were allowed to come to power in 1933 without a shot being fired, as the Stalinized Communist Party together with the Social Democracy parlyzed the best-organized workers-movement in Europe. Against their suicidal policy of capitulation, the Trotskyists fought for the United front of workers organizations against the Nazis: "No common platform with the Social Democracy, or with the leaders of the German trade unions, no common publications, banners, placards! March separately, but strike together! Agree only how to strike, whom to strike and when to strike!" --Leon Trotsky, "For workers' United Front Against Fascism" (December 1931) In this tradition, the Spartakist Workers Party of Germany (SpAD) German section of the International Communist League fights for trade union/immigrant mobilizations, including all the intended victims of fascism, to stop Nazi provocations. And, with Trotsky, we hold that the fight to stop the fascists the genocidal shock troops held in reserve by the ruling class is inseparable from the revolutionary perspective of the proletarian struggle for state power. 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