Danish communists protest U.S.-Denmark pact on bases
Danish communists protest U.S.-Denmark pact on bases
Workers World received this statement from the Danish Communist Party on Oct. 4. For more than two years, Denmark’s government leaders have been negotiating a bilateral defense agreement with the United States, which will allow U.S. troops to stay on Danish soil for shorter or longer periods of t
Denmark also risks becoming a bombing target for the many enemies the U.S. makes during the many military operations and wars it has a tradition of waging.
Norway has entered into a base agreement with the U.S., which means that the U.S. will have unrestricted access to four land areas in Norway, where it can set up barracks, hangars, and port areas as it wishes. There will be no possibility of any kind of control of these areas by the Norwegian authorities. The details of the agreement were agreed to in the deepest secrecy and the Norwegian population was never asked if they wanted the bases.
The same secrecy is now happening here in Denmark. Denmark will, with a bilateral base agreement with the U.S., cede sovereignty to the U.S. — and this will happen without the population being asked.
The Danish Communist Party strongly opposes such a bilateral agreement and calls for the broadest possible struggle against it.