They are officially opposed to NATO but have effectively and in practice abandoned this position.
In Sweden and Denmark, the governments’ supporting parties, the Left Party and the Red-Green Alliance, play a double game. The Left League, which sits in the Finnish government, is now in favour of NATO membership. This has only been possible with the help of the opportunist parties supporting the Social-Democratic governments.
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However, the people’s opposition is too big for the Social Democrats alone to have been able to stop it from developing in its full force. Through their traditional ties to the leaders of the Trade Union and workers’ movement, arm in arm with the employers, they have worked intensively for the participation of the countries in the imperialist military alliances, in direct contradiction to the national and international interests of the working class. The Social-Democratic governments of Denmark, Sweden and Finland have once again proved themselves immensely useful as guarantors of the interests of the monopolies, warmongers, bourgeoisie, and imperialism. At the same time, the EU has its own imperialist interests and purposes. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has made it clear that the US and NATO need a strengthened EU military union with increased war budgets, increased investment to strengthen the competitiveness of the EU war industry, and greater military capabilities and technological development in the EU, if it is under the control of US imperialism. It means another major sell-off of the sovereignty of the countries and their ability to pursue an independent foreign and security policy –dictated by the big monopolies and capital for which the strengthened military alliances of the EU and NATO must protect their investments and markets. This means large increases in national, NATO and EU military budgets – to be paid for by the working class and people with new social cuts and deteriorating living conditions. It is a development that means increased military build-up for the benefit of the war industry. The North has a strategic importance for control of the Baltic and Arctic seas in the increased rivalry between the imperialist big powers, the US, Russia and China. This is a dangerous development that is escalating the danger of war. The Danish government is on its way to making a similar agreement with the United States.
The Norwegian government is about to sign an agreement with the United States for US soldiers at military bases in Norway. Denmark, which is a member of NATO and the EU, now also becomes a member of the EU’s military build-up and apparatus. In recent weeks, the Swedish and Finnish governments have applied for membership in the US imperialist military alliance NATO. It was made a matter of ‘for or against Putin’ by the political establishment, the bosses and the top leadership of the Trade Union bureaucracy and the state and private media. The Yes is not a backing for more war and the military build-up of EU imperialism. The Danish Yes in the referendum June 1 to remove the former No to participation in the EU’s military process (so-called defence cooperation) was a majority of the votes cast, but less than half of those entitled to vote actually voted. This is taking place in an atmosphere of fear and uncertainty that the war in Ukraine and the 24/7 war propaganda have created. Under the guise of the inter-imperialist war in Ukraine, militarization and the influence of the US/NATO and the EU are dramatically increasing in the Nordic countries. By Workers’ Communist Party, APK, Denm a rk
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