Denmark
Denmark’s Red-Greens: what answers when the climate crisis shakes up politics?
Interview with Red-Green Alliance MP Søren Sønderg
The Red Green Alliance's Climate Plan 2030: A social justice route to a green society
Preface: Let us work together
Facebook server farm powered by ‘clean energy’ will increase Denmark's greenhouse emissions
Danish refugee policy and the position of the Red-Green Alliance (Enhedslisten)
Denmark: Red-Green Alliance big winner in municipal elections
Map of elected representatives of the Red-Green Alliance.
Denmark: Red-Green Alliance congress grapples with increased influence
By Jody Betzien, Copenhagen
May 27, 2012 -- Green Left Weekly -- Red carpet and champagne marked the start of the first Red-Green Alliance (RGA) congress since the party tripled its mandate at a poll in September last year.
The 385 delegates representing the 8000 members packed a basketball stadium in the migrant and working-class Copenhagen suburb of Norrebro to grapple with the party's new increased influence on Danish politics.
Party membership has more than doubled in the past two years, with the party welcoming into its ranks many ex-members of the Social Democratic and Socialist People's parties.
Danes voted in droves in last year's elections to punish the right-wing parties. The poll resulted in the Social Democrats heading a coalition government — and Denmark's first woman prime minister. But this took place on the back of the lowest vote for the Social Democrats since 1906.
There was also a collapse in support for the country's most right-wing parties, including the overtly racist Danish People's Party (DPP). The vote for left parties rose.
The Social Liberals are the most conservative of the four left-of-centre parties supporting the government and the RGA the most radical.
Denmark: Anti-racist protest outnumbers 'all-Europe' racist/fascist gathering
By Ron Ridenour, Copenhagen
Denmark: Right-wing government defeated, Red-Green Alliance triples seats
Prime Minister-elect Helle Thorning-Schmidt.
By Inger V. Johansen and Line Barfod
September 20, 2011 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal --The result of the September 15 parliamentary elections in Denmark means that the right-wing government of the last 10 years has finally been ousted. A new government will be formed under the leadership of Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the leader of the Social Democrats. The core parties of this government will be the Social Democrats and the Socialist People's Party (SPP), who for some years have formed a close partnership with the aim of strengthening the possibilities for an alternative government.
For the first time a woman will be the prime minister of a Danish government. For the first time SPP will be in government.
Review: `The Muslim revolt: A journey through political Islam'
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June 25, 2011 -- http://rupensavoulian.wordpress.com, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with permission -- Since the September 11, 2001, twin tower attacks, there has been renewed interest in the questions of Islam, political Islamism and jihadism. Books have been published by the truckload, seminars bringing together various political scientists and experts have been held, reams of paper analysing the origins and trajectory of political Islam have been published, and the airwaves resonate with talkback from pundits about the impact of Islam and Islamism in the world. How can one make sense of all this? Where does one begin?
