Socialistisk Information
Issue 100 of Danish Fourth Internationalist magazine
Socialistisk Information (Socialist Information - SI was launched in 1981 as one of the practical results of the fusion between the Socialist Workers Party (SAP) and the Trotskyist Revolutionary Socialists, a group which had been working inside the Left Socialists (VS), a relatively heterogeneous party born in the 1960s
"By the beginning of the eighties, it was clear that the faction fight inside VS had become irreconcilable, recalls editorial board member Mads Bruun Pedersen. "It was not possible to continue inside the framework of the VS. So we decided to work for a fusion with SAP"
In the first issue the aim of the magazine was among other things described as: "to contribute to a regroupment of the Danish left on a revolutionary basis." According to Pederson, " from the beginning, the plan was that SI should be a part of the discussions on the left. Through our own contribution and analysis of the situation in Denmark and internationally. But also by involving other currents." In the third issue, representatives from SAP, VS and the Socialist Peoples Party discussed socialist democracy. Later issues carried debates on "the left and the Labour majority in Danish politics", the character of the Soviet Union, the relationship between "autonomous" (radical anarchist) groups and the left, the Golf War and the role of the United Nations.
Issue 100 includes one article on the current discussion in Denmark's Red-Green Alliance, and another one on the relations between small parties on the Stalinist left.
S/ is a small magazine. But in 1988 it att-
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COCAD (aka CADTM) has updated its Web page. Additions include a report on the "counter-summit in Lyon in June 96 and a special report on the Zapatista "Encuentro Intercontinental" held in Chiapas of July/august 96 (published in he September issue of Iv). The page also offers formation about COCAD's own "Day against eo-liberalism and for Humanity" which will be held on the 25th of January 97 in Brussels at the lee University (VUB)
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:: 32.2.5226127/ email: cadtm@linkline.be ttp://www.linkline.be/users/cadtm racted national attention, when it published a unknown partner" exposing a secret tunnel under Copenhagen, used by the Danish intel-
*The next day our story was published on the front pages of several big newspapers, but was of course never confirmed," Pedersen remembers. not only the press who were interested. We had a visit from a man with a strong Russian accent who wanted very much to buy a copy. After all, the tunnel did run directly underneath the Russian embassy!"
For the first ten years, SI was published 4-6 times a year, but when SAP's weekly, Klassekampen (Class Struggle) fused with two other left papers in 1991 (creating the broad left Red Thread weekly, recently relaunched as The Socialist - Weekend, SI became a monthly, with a more important role within SAP, and in the party's relations
In recent years, the magazine has given particular priority to articles about the situation in Ex-Yugoslavia, especially Bosnia. These articles (some published simultaneously with International Viewpoint and our French and German sister-publications Inprecor and Inprekorr) have given SI a good reputation among people working in solidarity with a multiethnic Bosnia. At the party organised in October to commemorate the publication of issue #100, the editor of The Socialist - Weekend, and a leading member of the youth organisation, Rebel, both stressed the importance of Socialistisk Information as a international and critical socialist magazine. * [MBP]
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