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KLASSEKAMPEN on TRIAL in Early September This Year, Finn Sjue, the For- «Teamwork» Nettpublisering ved Forvaltningsorgan for AKPs partihistorie (www.akp.no) 2012 KLASSEKAMPEN ON TRIAL In early September this year, Finn Sjue, the for- «Teamwork». The telegrams proved that NATO WORKERS AND OPPRESSED OF ALL COUNTRIES. UNITE. mer editor of «Klassekampen» and presently an exercises atomic warfare on Norwegian soil. official spokesman for the Central Committee of They were reprinted in «Klassekampen» January AKP(m-1), was on trial in Oslo, charged with 11th, 1977. CLASS STRUGGLE printing secret telegrams from NATO Operation X4 PROSECUTOR REQUESTS 6 MONTHS IN PRISON The prosecutor wanted to turn J the case into a matter of espio- nage, and he succeeded in ma- king parts of the trial to be held AKP(m-1) adopts in secret. Despite the fact that the Teamwork telegrams had been read by tens of thousands «Klassekampen» reader's alrea- new Military dy, Sjue was not allowed to quote from the newspaper during this testimony — for security rea- Programme sons! * But the prosecutor didn't ma- nage to brand Sjue as a traitor In september this year, AKP(m-1)'s new military program and prosecute him under the was published. The party line om military questions was adop- Espionage Act. With massive ted at a national party conference in late spring 1979 after in- support from Norwegian press ternal party discussions for one year. cplleagues, Sjue stressed the The new military program entails some changes in AKP 125-ess' rights to consider prin- (m-1)s military policy on certain points. ting secret documents without Contrary to the principle program adopted at the second na- obtaining permission on before- tional party convention in 1976, the new military program goes hand. AGAINST the slogan (Not one ore to the bourgeois military — Official authorities may apparatus» and propagates funds for enterprises that enable call documents «classified» in Norway to resist aggression. The military program also pro- order to cover up for themsel- pagates conscription for women, which is a change form the ves, says Sjue. — The fact that a earlier party line. document is «classified» does not necessarily mean that it con- tains important secrets. It may A people's war is as well contain information its warlier principle of no grants which is unpleasant for the ru- the main strategy to the bourgeois military appa- lers, but important to the people. AKP( m-1 )s new military pro- ratus by no means signifies that * The verdict was a defeat for the party will support all grants Finn Sjue, official spokesman for the CC of AKP (m-1) and former editor of Klassekampen in court. gram confirms that in the event both the prosecutor and the High of a Soviet occupation, a peo- from now on. In a comment to Klassekampen, the party chair- Command of the Norwegian Ar- «Klassekampen» immediately ter of principle and in order to animous, refers to AKPs and ple's war is the main strategy «Klassekampen»'s evident anti- for the Norwegian people. The man, Pal Steigan, says that med Forces. Sjue was sentenced decided to appeal the verdict to defend the right to free speech. program says: «A people's war AMP( m-1 ) will work towards an to pay a fine of 2.500 kr. and 1.000 a higher court of law, not becau- At the same time, he stressed Soviet Union attitudes. against a Soviet army of invasi- alteration of the present plans kr. in court costs. Sjue and se of the amounts, but as a mat- that the verdict, which was un- on and occupation will be a great for national defence. He is of the war of resistance for all patrio- opinion that the Norwegian mili- tic forces resisting social impe- tary doctrine of strategic air struetive debate on vital sjon, when the enemy already is. rialist slavery.» field defence must be changed military-political questions. It in the middle of Norway. I see In order to lead such a war, into one stressing mobile warfa- Chaiiman Pal Steigan: certainly isn't our party's fault the plans to respond to this by the people's own armed forces re. that this only happened to a using atomic weapons as a. des- must be built up. It is an illusion — The logic consequence of to believe that the bourgeois -ar- the government's defence policy small degree. Nevertheless, we perate draw from NATO. a draw .med tome. can be %transfor- is the establishment of NATO are happy that this debate has in opposition to the interests of med» into such forces. bases on Norwegian soil in Telex hunt instead come — apparently, it took the the Norwegian people. Neither The working class must take peace-time. This military doctri- officers two years to stomach of the two super powers cares the leadership for the people's ne puts the country's fate into Steigan says. armed forces in the event of a the hands of military leaders in the chock, about the fact that civilians will war of liberation. the Pentagon and at the NATO of a debate on — AKP(m-1) is of the opinion fall victims of a nuclear war. Headquarters in Brussels, Pal that NATO bases its plans for de- Now, we need an open, democra- Criticism of the Steigan concludes. He hopes for fence on several dangerous illu- tic discussion on these issues, sa- a debate on the military pro- sions. People are never allowed ys Steigan. General Staff gram and constructive critism national defence to talk about these matters, and lie points to the fact that the The fact that AKP( m-1) changes in the times ahead., information is scarce. We are of balance of power in Enron has — It was quite correct and nec- ders and the press focused their the opinion that is is of vital i ► - changed so much that the Soviet cessary for our party newspaper attention on the «telex phantom» portance to focus upon these se- leaders evidently prepare for a to print the telegrams from Ope- hunt, says Pal Steigan, chair- rious questions, and the Team- direct attack on Southern Nor- ration Teamwork. But instead of man of the Workers' Communist work telegrams lifted just one way and Oslo in the event of a joining the debate on Norwegian Party (marxist-leninists). co u rne r of the carpet. war. This is a new situation, and defense policy, which ought to — I believed that the nuclear The telegrams reveal how N A- NAT'() certainly does not know AKP(m-I) on have followed the military lea- disclosures would lead to a con- TO will react in a wartime situa- how to handle it, he said. NATO DEFENCE For reasons of principle, AKP (m-1) is against NA- Klassekampen TO. The alliance was established on a basis of unequality. Within NATO, all the other states are under dominance of the imperialist super-power IN OSLO: USA. saved as a Minimal Protection If it ever becomes possible to The Norwegian armed forces in Emergency choose in the present situation or are a part of the-NATO system of under capitalism, the Norwegi- command. Thi g entails that the Situations an communists would prefer a Norwegian Air Force is under national defense — independent foreign command today. In a daily paper Debate on civil defence becomes of super-powers — to a NATO war-time situation, the Army defense. would be in the same position. more and more important. RV At the same time, our policy This is a hinderance against For more than one year, Klasse- port on the same basis as other and AKP( m-1 1 have many times must be based on the fact that strenghtening Norwegian sove- kampen, A K P ( m-l) 's daily Norwegian daily papers. This demonstrated how preparations the Soviet Union is the biggest reignity and the Norwegian ar- newspaper, has been ridden by a was granted, and from Septem- for a war situation are insuffi- and most dangerous aggressor med forces' ability to resist So- number of economic problems, ber, Klassekampen has printed cient, and demanded the buil- today. The Soviet Union is the viet aggression. On this back- and the question whether the pa- ding of more fallout shelters and greatest military threat to Nor- ground, AKP( demands state adverts. m-l) per would survive as a daily better information to the civilian way and Norwegian sovereigni- Norwegian withdrawal from the population all over the country. ty today, not USA and NATO. NATO system of command. newspaper has been an open FUND RAISING If Norway leaves NATO and at one. An article in Klassekampen, the same time expresses a firm Production costs for a daily DRIVE October 5th, demonstrates that political willingness to resist so- newspaper are high in Norway. At the same time, a new fund the possibilities for effective cial imperialist expansion and The party summed up earlier raising drive has brought more protection against bombings are prepare the Norwegian armed that too few concrete, thorough than one million kr to Klasse- bad for the civilians. forces for a Soviet attack, this discussions had been held before kampen and RV. The daily cir- would be a improvement. Such a culation has gone up 30% in 100.000 WITH withdrawal would gain our sup- Klassekampen was published by port. daily. Among other things, the the first half of 1979. This is a re- NO SHELTER But if Norway decides to leave newspaper refused to accept sta- sult of good, intensive campaign In the event of an emergency si- NATO on conditions set by the te support in the form of adverts work from members and sym- tuation, 100.000 people will be Soviet Union and slackens the and production cost refunds pathisers of AKP(m-l).
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