Danish communists: ‘Palestine has the right to live and the right to fight!’
Danish communists: ‘Palestine has the right to live and the right to fight!’
The following is a statement from the Seventh Congress of the Danish Communist Party (DKP), held March 15–17, 2024, with regard to Israel’s genocide in Palestine, which Workers World publishes with the aim of building solidarity of workers’ parties worldwide with the struggle for national liberation
After the conclusion of the 7th Congress, the Danish Communist Party will continue its pressure on politicians and stockholders to end their support for the state [occupying Palestine]. We will increase our struggle for a ceasefire now, for a release of detainees and hostages now and for humanitarian aid to reach the needy now. We realize these will only be the firsts steps on a long road, a road that in the end will lead to a free Palestine, free from apartheid.
The DKP is not alone in the struggle for a free Palestine. The Palestinian people are not alone. The party is part of the movement which has taken the streets of Danish towns and cities. Danish arms factories have been blockaded. The boycott of [Zionism], from a stop for [Zionist] groceries to rejecting the masking of genocide with songs, is stronger than ever before.
We see a unity in that struggle which gives us hope. The Danish Communist Party will build upon that unity and from our Congress will reach out to all around us with the demand: for a “free Palestine, from the River to the Sea.”