[Peace-discuss] Fw: [socialistdiscussion] Colapse of the Socialist People's Party in Denmark

[David Johnson]

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Subject: [socialistdiscussion] Colapse of the Socialist People's Party in Denmark


  

As members of this list might know the Socialist People’s Party yesterday left the Danish government as a result of the government’s decision to sell 19 % of shares in the state owned Energy Company (DONG) to Goldman Sachs.


The government in Denmark was elected in September 2011 and was until yesterday composed of 

  a.. The Social Democracy
  b.. The socialist People’s Party (a split from the CP after the event in Hungary)
  c.. The Radical Left – a left split from the Liberals in 1905. Today a liberal party when it comes to economy at the same time wishing to look human. Intellectuals in the main now a days.
The Government was a minority government supported by the United List (an aggregation of a split from the Socialist People’s party in 1967 and the soft wing of the CP after the fall of the wall together with other small parties on the left including the Mandalites).


After they formed the government in 2011 the Social Democracy and the Socialist People’s Party turned their back to 80 % of the program they bad been elected on. They were elected on a program of more money to the councils instead of cuts, welfare instead of lower taxes. 


After joining the government they instead continued the economically policy of the previous bourgeois government with cuts on:

  a.. unemployed, 
  b.. the sick, 
  c.. the students, 
  d.. the disabled and people on social security.
  e.. and cuts on local councils. 
Besides they implemented tax cuts for the rich and big business and now the last drop the selling of public asset to Goldman Sachs.


The membership of the Socialist People’s Party has from the beginning reacted and one year ago a new chairman was elected.


Since then a number of prominent members of the Socialist People’s Party have left the party and become members of the Social Democracy. With the Socialist People’s Party being forced to withdraw from the government one of the female members who was a minister has left the party and joined the Social Democracy and another one joined the Radical Left. One could say the rats are one by one leaving the sinking ship not by turning to the left (The United List) but to the right.


The majority of the ministers for the socialist People’s Party (4 out of 6) were women, the prime minister is a woman and the leader of the Radical Left who is the minister of economy and the interior is also a women and the “real prime minister” who are demanding right wing policy when it comes to economy.


Both the Social Democracy and the Socialist People’s Party has lost voters. SD is now below 20 % and the Socialist People’s Party has lost 2/3 of the voters who mainly has gone to the United List while many of the leaders have gone to the Social Democracy.


The United List is gaining automatically as they are not coming forward with an alternative answer to the economical crisis.


The issue that sparked this reaction was the selling to Goldman Sachs of 19 % of the shares in Danish DONG Energy which is state owned. No one had reacted to this before a young man who was non-political started a petition two weeks ago and within two weeks had collected 180.000 signatures in protests. Yesterday there were demonstrations in the biggest cities against the selling. This was the spark that got the Socialist People’s Party to leave the government. The two parties left in Government will continue with new ministers. It will be the 7th change in government during the 2½ year it has been in government.



We have seen it again and again in Denmark: When one of the parties left to the Social Democracy enters or acts as a "supporting" party to the Social Democracy they turn to the right instead of forcing the SD to the left just like the SD turns to the right when in coalition with the Racical Left (the traditional p.b. party) instead of the Radical Left turning to the left.


The excuse the SD makes is that we have to have the p.b. with us (behind us). The reality is that the SD is behind the Radical Left when it becomes to economy.


Birgitte


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