Danish Fourth Internationalists mand for a working-class policy can gain broad, active backing from the workplaces and the trade unions."
Along with backing such exemplary initiatives from sections of the workers movement, Klassekampen pointed out: "The SAP will put forward a full socialist hold congress The Danish section of the Fourth Inter-
Arbejderparti (SAP, Socialist Workers Party) held its fourth regular conference August 19-21 in Copenhagen.
the congress in the SAP's paper Klassekampen stressed that the meeting took place in a context of growing crisis and tension both in Denmark and internationally.
"This congress was held in a situation in which the U.S. imperialists are closer than ever to an outright war against Nicaragua, in which the [right-wing Danish] Schlueter government is clearly preparing a new wave of attacks on the working people, a situation in which there is unrest in the working class after the blows it has suffered at the hands of the government but not yet any broad, effective response from the workers movement." yielded the government to the Schlueter coalition in the fall of 1982 so that it could carry out austerity measures that they could not get working-class voters to
The Schlueter government has since become known as the "Toilet Seat" coalition, because the initials of the bourgeois parties that make it up seem to spell that out in Danish and because the name corresponded to the esteem in which the population holds the rightist regime
The bourgeois government immediateunemployment which represented an important part of the income of casual workers such as dockers. The dock workers strike in response was defeated by a rightist campaign that involved a new level of police the end of the action, workers leader Karl Jorgensen has been held in prison on a conspiracy charge, and the Schlueter government is trying to get through legislation "preventive detention" of persons considered by the police "likely" to cause GROWING RESISTANCE BY DANISH
WORKERS MOVEMENT
In recent months, the dockers have taken the initiative in drawing up a program for a united-front workers government. [See "Danish Dockers Propose Programme for Fighting Government," by Kim Tverskor, IV, No 35, August 1, 1983.]
Days before the SAP conference, Danish National Labor Confederation (LO) organizations in Copenhagen and
Fredriksberg decided to organize protest demonstrations October 4 and called on other LO district organizations to hold protest marches.
The weekend before the SAP congress, a conference of 400 shop stewards from the country's biggest trade-union, the General Workers Union (SiD) called for ousting the Schlueter government and for a working-class policy. It raised demands for eliminating the limitations on sick pay, for nationalization of newly discovered oil and gas fields, a fair tax policy, nationalization of credit institutions and insurance companies, as well as of the
It also called for training the jobless and opportunities for youth to learn skills by doing jobs.
In a declaration to the union leadership, the SiD conference made the follow-
"The way out of the crisis for Denmark is not more cuts in wages but the introduction of a 35-hour week without any cut in pay.
"There must be changes in the present system of labor law, which is being misused to repress union activity and to force the unions to hold their members
The political resolution at the SAP
"The Offensive of the Bourgeoisie, the Bankruptcy of Reformthe Tasks of Revolutionists." It was concretized by a tasks resolution.
THE RESPONSE OF THE SAP
The political resolution stressed: "The party's work must be focused on building the broadest possible mobilization to oust the bourgeois government. The fight for a Danish rejection of the 572 new atomic missiles must be continuously broadened. This demand has to be won through oustmeasures has to be met by broad protest actions directed toward preparing the way for a political general strike to bring down the bourgeois gov-
"The Social Democrats and the other workers parties have to be called on to reject collaboration with the bourgeois parties and to set up a government based on the workers parties."
The resolution pointed out: dockers in Copenhagen have proposed a series of programmatic points that a government based on the workers parties should begin to implement. proposal has just been made by an assembly of shop stewards in the SiD. Such initiatives must be extended so that the deprogram for fighting the crisis. This program will indicate not only the next step in the campaign to oust the Schlueter government and stop the imposition of wage restrictions and social cutbacks but will set the signposts toward a settling of accounts with which produces crises, poverty, and op-
REVOLUTIONARY UNITY
In connection with this, the resolution laid out a perspective of unity of all the revolutionary forces in Denmark:
"The SAP believes that it is necessary to combat the divisions that exist among those who want to build a revolutionary socialist party. Left Socialists (Venstresocialisterne, a left centrist group in parliament) has always been a mixed bag, but it includes various currents that have taken up the task of building a revolutionary party and therefore of preparing the socialist revolution.
"In order to strengthen the work of building a revolutionary party in Denmark, it is important to carry out an organized discussion between the SAP, revolutionary sectors in the Left Socialists, and revolutionists who do not belong to either of these two organizations.
"These discussions must also take up the question of building a revolutionary
Such discussions must be conducted in the framework of increased practical political collaboration. Only in this way will it be possible to make progress toward a solid convergence of the revolutionary forces."
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PEACE MOVEMENT
The congress also adopted a resolution entitled "The Renewed Arms Race, the Threat of War, and Socialism." plains the imperialists' responsibility for the nuclear arms race and the threat of
The resolution stresses the importance of continuing and extending the protests against the step-up in nuclear armament and of standing fast behind the demand for unconditional rejection of the 572
The resolution explains, moreover, why the Soviet bureaucrats neither can, nor will, lead a struggle that can succeed in restraining the imperialist rulers, who are arming for war in Central America, the Middle East, and other places.
Considerable attention was also given to youth and to the youth organization that works with the SAP, the Socialist Ungdomsfoerbund (SUF - Young Social-
ist League). Klassekampen noted: "The collaboration between the SAP and the SUF will be increased, as cooperation between two independent organizations. This applied, for example, to work in the peace movement and in the unions, well as in education and in producing and distributing the SUF's journal, Slaa Igen. ["Fight Back"].
There was a discussion of the relative place of work among apprentices and among the youth in action committees fighting the housing crisis, and how the SAP could reinforce the SUF without endangering the latter's organizational independence.
One of the most important ongoing campaigns for the SAP is the fight to win the release of the imprisoned dockers leader Karl Joergenssen.
Frede Jacobssen, one of the editorial board of Klassekampen, reported on the solidarity campaign and demonstrated a video film that has been made to be shown in the various workplaces at the lunch hour. The SAP has printed 70,000 posters on the Joergenssen case to be sold
The congress was marked by general political agreement. The resolutions passed without opposition. There were thirty delegates. national leadership of 17 members. (Based on the reports of the congress in Klassekampen and Internationalen, the paper of the Swedish section, which sent a correspondent.)
and military equipment to the bloodthirsty military dictatorship in Salvador.
It is for these militarist operations directed against our Latin-American brothers and sisters that the militarization of our country is intended to serve. This was in fact admitted by Commodore Diego Hernandez (a top U.S. military officer in the Caribbean), when he said that Roosevelt Roads would be the nerve center from which operations would be directed in the event of a military conflict in Central America.
We cannot let ourselves be used as a spearhead against the Latin-American peoples. The claim that the militariza tion of Puerto Rico would solve the problem of unemployment is a deception
Have people forgotten that the level of unemployment on Vieques is higher than in the rest of the country, despite the fact that two thirds of it is taken up by the
Have people forgotten the economic and social stagnation that the so-called
Stop the militarization of Puerto Rico The following is the lead article from the July issue of La Verdad, paper of the Liga Internacionalista de los Trabajadores (Internationalist Fourth Internationalist organization in
In recent weeks, a series of U.S. government plans have been announced that point toward an unprecedented step-up in the militarization of our island
Among the measures announced are (1) the reopening of the Ramey Base in Aguadilla, (2) the transfer of the
School from Panama Canal Zone to Puerto Rico, (3) the transfer of 867 facilities in Fort Allen o the U.S. army in March 1983 for the training of Latin American military forces (although they have also talked establishing the Las Americas Military School there), (4) cancellation of the phasing out of Fort Buchanan, and (5) the issuing of contracts for the mod ernization of the naval communications facilities in Fort Allen. Not content with the military occupation of two-thirds of Vieques, with Roosevelt Roads (the biggest naval base in the world) and with the Sabana Seca installations, among others, the U.S. government is projecting the supermilitarization of Puerto Rico.
The U.S. government alleges that these changes are necessary to counter Cuban influence in the Caribbean and in Central America. It talks about how many airplanes and soldiers Cuba has, but it does not say anything about the U.S. military presence in Central America and the Caribbean, which greatly exceeds the capacity of the Cuban government. 26 attacks on Cuba, the U.S. government is trying to conceal its real which is to maintain U.S. economic control over Central America and the Caribbean.
For decades, the peoples of Latin America have been ruled by governments and military dictatorships that have submerged our Latin-American brothers and sisters in the worst poverty.
Although there been nothing about these governments, they have been propped up, including by military means, by the U.S. government, which economically controls the entire
Today, many of our Latin American brothers and sisters are rising up against exploitation and injustice; they want to take control of the destinies of their re-
The Nicaraguan people, for example, who were ruled for decades by the Somoza dynasty, fought against exploitation and extreme poverty control of the country in July 1979.
The new government has not been prepared to accept foreign intervention in the running of the country, and has not accepted any agreements whose conditions were detrimental to the Nicaraguan people. This has brought it attacks from the U.S., which is supporting the counterrevolutionary forces and has launched an economic boycott, which includes measures such as reducing the import quota for Nicaraguan sugar.
Like the Nicaraguan people, the Salvadoran people are now rising up against oppression and tyranny. Once again, the U.S. is not willing to give up its influence in the area, and is openly sending money has meant for the people of Vieques? Have they forgotten the serious problems of prostitution and public drunkeness that the navy has brought for the people of Vieques?
represented such a threat to the security of men, women, and children on the island that they were obliged to organize to get the military out of the town (the civilian zone). Recently, the people of Vieques have protested about the resurgence of these problems, and
At the same time as denying these facts, the government and the media that serve it has been flooding the country for years with propaganda about the life" in the army and trying to present it as an alternative source of jobs.
Why don't they say that 80% of the professional training in the military has civilian application, and that 56% of Puerto Rican veterans suffer from mental disorders, while they get less government aid than veterans from the U.S.
The U.S. is defending its interests in Central America by and claw. It is not democracy and freedom for our Latin-American brothers and sisters that interest them but oil, bauxite, and coal, among other things
We Puerto Ricans cannot permit the militarization of our country. We have to oppose the transer of the Las Americas School to Puerto Rico, the school that trained Anastacio Somoza and Humberto Romero (the Salvadoran dictator ousted in 1979), among others. This is not only because it is the best help we can give our Latin-American brothers and sisters, but because the supermilitarization of our country will bring such grave problems as prostitution, unemployment, destruction of the environment, and the threat of a military attack in the event of the U.S. becoming involved in a military conflict and our youth being used for cannon fodder in wars that are not in our interest.