Norway: Reports on the 1st of May

We hereby share a compilation of some reports published by Kampkomiteen on the mobilizations and actions carried out for the 1^st of May in the country.

Oslo

There were two demonstrations in the city. Kampkomiteen promoted the foundation of the Anti-Imperialist League (AIL), support for the struggle of the poor peasants and the people in Brazil, and support for the Palestinian resistance struggle.

At the start of the day, Kampkomiteen carried out a combative mobilization along with other forces, among them the Workers’ Socialist Organization of Afghanistan, the Revolutionary Communist League, the Worker Communist Party of Kurdistan, the International Socialists and various Palestinian organizers. The demonstration was held under the common main slogan: “Workers and oppressed of all countries, unite!”.

Afterwards they joined the demonstration led by the LO (Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions). The Prime Minister was interrupted in his speech at the end of the mobilization by slogans for Palestine from various parts of the gathering. During the whole day slogans demanding international solidarity, for Palestine, for the people’s struggle in Brazil and against the burden of the crisis into the shoulders of the people, were chanted.

Bergen

More than 500 people attended the anti-imperialist block despite the strong winds and rain. At the end of the mobilization the anti-imperialists gathered for a social event were dinner was served, they made appeals and sung workers’ songs, and news from Turkey about the struggle in Taksim square and repression against Partizan were shared. At the beginning of the day poems and appeals were read by Bergen4Palestine, the International Women’s League for Peace and Freedom, the Anti-War Initiative, among others. The emphasis was placed on the rearmament and the necessity to struggle against it. Slogans and appeals were done for the heroic resistance struggle of the Palestinian people. The anti-imperialists joined the demonstration in the city forming an anti-imperialist block.

Kampkomiteen from Bergen carried red and Palestinian flags, as well as Anti-Imperialist League flags. Kampomiteen activists distributed leaflets in support of the League of the Poor Peasants in Brazil and the Agrarian Revolution in Brazil. Kampkommiteen carried out a speech in in which the work for the establishment of the AIL, the Palestine solidarity, the hypocrisy of the government and other bourgeois parties and the people’s struggle against imperialism nationally and internationally were highlighted.

Trondheim

The activists started the day with an anti-imperialist demonstration. They marched with banners, Palestinian flags, and LCP flags, as well as placards with the logo of the Anti-Imperialist League. A speech was delivered, music was played, and leaflets were distributed to passers by. The speech highlighted that despite the imperialists’ wars and genocides, rising prices, welfare cuts, and attacks on the people’s democratic rights, the workers and the oppressed around the world continue struggling:

“Our description of the current situation may seem dark, but everywhere we look, there are streaks, glimmers, and torches of light. The heroic Palestinian people continue their resistance struggle. Poor peasants in Brazil are demanding land and struggling together. Workers are going on general strike in Greece. Students and the masses are rising up against the government in Serbia. Farmers are blocking the streets in Brussels. Youth are attacking police stations in France. Tens of thousands are rising up in Norway, for Palestine, against school closures, for local hospitals, just to name a few! We find all the hope we need in the people’s struggle. For it is the people, and only the people, who can change history, and even though the struggle is hard, it will prevail!”

After the speech, slogans were chanted in support of the Palestinian resistance struggle and to strengthen international solidarity.

After the demonstration, Kampkomiteen went to the march of the LO. Slogans were chanted against imperialism and rising prices and leaflets on Palestine were distributed among the attendants to the mobilization and passers by.

Kristiansand

Kampkomiteen reports that it participated in the 1^st of May demonstration with slogans such as “Support the Palestinian resistance struggle!”, “Support the poor peasants struggle in Brazil!”, “International solidarity – unity of the working class!”, “Israel has blood on its hands – Free Palestine, the USA has blood on its hands, Norway has blood on its hands!”, among others.