Fælle's course
Fælles course ("Common Course") was a left-wing populist Danish party around the "sailor boss" Preben Møller Hansen . The party existed from 1986 to 2001. 1987–1988 she was represented in the Folketing with four mandates.
The party founder Preben Møller Hansen (1929-2008) had been chairman of Sømændenes Forbund , the seafarers' union , since 1968 . Many Danes knew him because of his bold language, when he defended the interests of the small but very politically activist trade union federation, or because he was often dressed in a Hawaiian shirt. Since 1956 he was a member of the Danish Communist Party , which he represented in the city council (city council) of Copenhagen from 1975 to 1976 .
Fælle's course originated in 1960 as the title of a faction newspaper for communist members within the Seafarers and Ship Heaters Union, with the slogan “For Peace and Socialism”. "Fælle's course" was also the name of an electoral list that gradually secured a majority in the bodies of the trade union confederation.
1979 Møller Hansen was expelled from the party because of violent attacks on the DKP leadership. The dispute went, among other things, about the fact that he consistently referred to social democracy as a class enemy . He then formed Fælle's Klubben course , a political forum for unionists and retirees. There were also social influences, such as shopping trips across the Danish-German border.
From Fælles course Klubben 1986 on 19 April Arbejderpartiet Fælles course formed.
Resistance to the EC was an important content, especially because of the free mobility of the labor force , which posed a threat to Danish wages and employment. The party was negative against refugees and immigrants, an unusual position by a left party. Other demands were an unconditional basic income for the unemployed and the sick, and pensioners should receive free medicines, housekeeping and use of public transport, cancellation of radio fees, paid vacation, subsidized telephone subscriptions and one year of free attendance at a folk high school. The military should be abolished, but civil and disaster protection should be given.
The party got involved in organizations for friendship work with the Soviet Union, Cuba, Libya and later North Korea.
The party received 2.2% of the vote and four seats in the Folketing election on September 8, 1987. In addition to Preben Møller Hansen, there were Henrik Berlau and Kurt Frederiksen, who were also officials in the seafarers' union, and the former DKP communist Jørgen Tved. The MPs of the party printed out very informally during the meetings and received numerous calls to order .
On May 10, 1988, the party narrowly missed the threshold with 1.9% of the vote. The early election was triggered when the Poul Schlueter government was humiliated in the area of security policy and relations with NATO . The social-liberal radical Venstre , which the government tolerated, and the opposition Social Democrats voted together for a resolution that would ban foreign warships with possible nuclear weapons from Danish ports.
In the 1990 election, the party allied itself with the right-wing populist Trivselspartiet ("prosperous party"), a party formation of Mogens Glistrup after he was marginalized in the Progress Party he founded . Glistrup received 2,700 votes as a candidate on the Fælles course list, but the party as a whole was again not elected with 1.8%.
Fælle's course was represented on Copenhagen City Council from 1989 to 2001, and by Møller Hansen for the last three years.
In 2001 the party disbanded and asked members to join the Danish Communist Party.
Individual evidence
- ^ Fælles course , leksikon.org
- ↑ Video with Preben Møller Hansen and Mogens Glistrup at a rally in 1990 and scenes from the folketing