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Progressives in Denmark call for a No vote in EU defence referendum
With the backdrop of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, pro-EU forces have pushed for Denmark to abandon its defence opt-out policy and to integrate the country into the EU’s military structures, reports PEOPLE’S DISPATCH
Political leader of the Red-Green Alliance Mai Villadsen hands out NO campaign flyers at Noerreport Station in Copenhagen, Denmark, Tuesday, May 31, 2022. Danish
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CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
AS THE people of Denmark get ready to vote today in the referendum on the future of the country’s opt-out policy related to European Union’s defence, progressive and left-wing sections have given a call to vote No.
The referendum will decide the future of Denmark’s policy of not participating in the Common Security and Defence Policy or EU military operations.
The leftist Red-Green Alliance, Communist Party (KP), Danish Communist Youth (DKU), Red-Green Youth and various trade unions have initiated a campaign to urge people to vote No in the upcoming referendum.
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